Glamorgan County Cricket Club

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Glamorgan
Established	1888
First-Class Debut	v Sussex at Cardiff Arms Park on May 18, 1921
Captain	David Hemp
Coach	John Derrick
County Titles	3

Glamorgan County Cricket Club is one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Glamorgan aka Glamorganshire (Welsh: Morgannwg). Glamorgan CCC is the only Welsh first-class cricket club. Its limited overs team is called the Glamorgan Dragons.

The club is based in Cardiff and plays most of its home games at Sophia Gardens, which is located by the River Taff. Matches are also played at Swansea and Colwyn Bay (despite the latter town being in historic Denbighshire). It has been announced that due to construction work to Sophia Gardens, Glamorgan will play a one day game in Cresselly in 2007.

1 Honours
- 1.1 Second XI honours
2 Earliest cricket
3 Origin of club
4 Club history
5 Current squad
6 Notable players
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Honours

County Championship (3) - 1948, 1969, 1997; shared (0) -
Gillette/NatWest/C&G Trophy (0) -
Sunday/National League (3) - 1993, 2002, 2004

Division Two (1) - 2001

Twenty20 Cup (0) -

Minor Counties Championship (0) - ; shared (1) - 1900

[edit] Second XI honours

Second XI Championship (2) - 1965, 1980; shared (0) -
Second XI Trophy (0) -

[edit] Earliest cricket

Cricket probably reached Wales and Glamorgan by the end of the 17th century. The earliest known reference to cricket in Glamorgan is a match at Swansea in 1780.

[edit] Origin of club

The formation of Glamorgan CCC took place on 5 July 1888 at a meeting in the Angel Hotel, Cardiff.

The club competed in the Minor Counties Championship for many years and then applied for first-class status after the First World War.

Glamorgan CCC played its initial first-class match versus Sussex CCC at Cardiff Arms Park on 18, 19 & 20 May 1921 and thus increased the County Championship to 17 teams.

[edit] Club history

Glamorgan famously won the county championship under the captaincy of Wilf Wooller in 1948, whose advocacy of high fielding standards was the key to beating much stronger batting and bowling teams.

Glamorgan was the unintentional venue for a piece of cricket history on 2 September 1968 when, during Glamorgan v Notts at Swansea, the great Gary Sobers hit all six balls in an over from Malcolm Nash for six.

Glamorgan won the championship again under Tony Lewis in 1969 and Matthew Maynard in 1997. Maynard, who retired at the end of the 2005 season, was one of the most destructive batsmen in first class cricket over the past 20 years. The 2005 captain, off spinner Robert Croft proved effective on England tours, and is a useful pinch hitter in List A one day games.

The club has current plans (April 2006) to extend its grounds in the Grade 2 Listed Heritage Park that is Sophia Gardens with a 17,500 seat super-stadium. This is opposed by local residents' groups and earlier plans were objected to by Cadw and local MPs, Councillors and Assembly Members. See the Hit It For Six website. On 20 April 2006, it was announced that, subject to the development being completed it, one of the Tests against Australia in the 2009 Ashes series would be held at Sophia Gardens: [1].