County Championship cricket returns to the SWALEC Stadium after the cut and thrust of the Champions Trophy and the Friends Life t20, with Glamorgan taking a short break from their Twenty20 campaign by welcoming Hampshire to their headquarters in Cardiff for a four-day encounter which is scheduled to get underway at 11am on Monday, July 8th.
Match Preview
Hampshire have won the last four matches between the two sides, including the contest last summer at the SWALEC Stadium where they scraped home off the penultimate ball by two wickets after being left with a target of 204 in the rain-affected match.
The last time that Glamorgan defeated Hampshire in the County Championship was twenty-two years ago at Southampton, with the Welsh county winning the contest at the Northlands Road ground in 1991 by seven wickets after Matthew Maynard had scored a career-best 243 and Hugh Morris a fine 131 in Glamorgan's mammoth total of 504.
Hampshire have won their last three Championship encounters with Glamorgan at the Cardiff ground and you have to go back to August 1985 for the Welsh county's last home victory with Glamorgan winning the rain-affected contest by five wickets at Sophia Gardens after Younis Ahmed struck an unbeaten century.
Team News
With Will Bragg having sustained a shoulder injury, Gareth Rees has been recalled to Glamorgan's Championship squad for their match with Hampshire. Young off-spinner Andrew Salter also features for the first time this season in the 13-man squad, whilst John Glover is also included having recovered from the finger injury sustained during the game at Bristol in mid-June.
The Glamorgan squad in full is - BJ Wright, GP Rees, SJ Walters, MJ North, MW Goodwin, J Allenby, MA Wallace (capt), JC Glover, DA Cosker, MG Hogan, MT Reed, WT Owen and AG Salter.
