The Sophia Gardens road/wicket comes out on top yet again.Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
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The Sophia Gardens road/wicket comes out on top yet again.
Even the Yorkshire wicketkeeper had a bowl towards the end.
I’d rather it be like a road to give us a chance of a draw than have to bat on something that we would be out for 90.
Who’s asking for wickets like that? All I’d like to see is a pitch that is a more even balance between bat and ball and doesn’t get harder to take wickets as the game goes on. Glamorgan may have lost more by playing on better wickets than Cardiff, but they would have won more as well and there also might have been some watchable fourth days.
Good article about someone who has been one of Glamorgan’s great figures of the last half a century. Unfortunately, the one signing we made last winter turned out to be a pretty spectacular flop in a side that needed all of the bowling resources it could get once Neser left.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66797881
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/63075996
Not holding back is he?
Tom cullen "glamorgan cronyism must end".
Jobs for the boys.
Even if what he says is true, criticism from someone who has left any sporting team after never really establishing themselves in the starting line up can be dismissed as sour grapes.
That said, maybe it is time to look outside of former players with the next coaching appointment - the last two "outsider" coaches I can think of are Duncan Fletcher and Matthew Mott, so it's not as if they've made bad choices when they've looked beyond Wales.
No but then again comments like this can surely only come from someone now out of the set up. Plus as he says we have debated in this very thread why the likes of hogan, selman and David Lloyd have left the county on their own accord. Perhaps there is something in it?
Also not like he's trying to get Maynard out of a job (if he said it while Maynard was in post his motivations could be questioned more perhaps) as all the people are leaving anyway so it's a perfect opportunity to act like a professional club and not just find another ex player.
The glamorgan chairman doesn't exactly deny it!
This is a great chance for a new start. We've got a more than decent batting lineup, hopefully we can get a good bowler or 2 and a decent coach and we are in a position to do really well.
I did think Cullen and Joe Cooke were a bit unlucky to be released last year
First female umpire to stand in a men's first-class match in England and Wales in our match against Derbyshire next week
https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/3693554
She’s not having much to do. Glamorgan fielding six seamers and no full time spinner, put Derbyshire in and they’re 184-1 - our season was over once we lost at Worcestershire.
This has been the dullest season I can recall. Same as usual in T20 and one day stuff and a forgettable Championship season. The club must be better at bringing young talent through.
Meanwhile, T20 records smashed in Nepal, including a batsman scoring a half century after getting to the crease in the 19th over!
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/n...-t20is-1400164
Genghis Khan will be livid
About time the Glamorgan batters kick on a bit. Let's change the habit of a season and actually attack a bit.
I find our approach this season unbelievable. Spent years making stupid declarations when a draw would have been ok. Now they've changed the points system to devalue the draw and promote the win, we decide we want to play attritional cricket. We must have the most draws of any team in the country this season.
Well there we go, we have a declaration. Bit daft when what we actually needed was Cooke and Douthwaite to smash it around. But at least it's some intent.
Unless it's a case that the captain's have got together and worked something out. In which case very good to see.
Glamorgan’s season ends in appropriate fashion with them clinging on fora draw after scoring at less than two an over - Derbyshire must be regretting batting on so long before declaring in their second innings. Glamorgan got the lowest number of bowling points of any team in the Second Division and even when Michael Neser was here were almost incapable of taking twenty wickets in a game - dead Cardiff wickets did not help out in that regard.
To finish on a positive note, we’ll done to Kieran Carlson for passing one thousand runs in a first class season for the first time.
Gloucestershire are leaving their current ground and are looking for a new site outside Bristol, possibly next to the M4.
Could mean they get more international matches.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/b...-leave-8958714
New head coach announced - Grant Bradburn
https://glamorgancricket.com/news/gl...new-head-coach
In my admittedly limited knowledge that looks like a decent appointment?
Don’t know anything about him, but he’s got a decent CV - does it mean an emphasis on New Zealand players from now on I wonder? I’d be happy with more Labuschagne (who I think is contracted to us for next season) and Neser.
Yeah, looks decent I think.
Could have some good connections for NZ and Pakistan players.
Michael Neser signs for Hampshire, not a shock, but the lack of new players through the winter is disappointing- I suppose they couldn’t do much until the new coach was announced.
Couple of signings announced today - Pakistani fast bowler Mir Hamza (for the 1st 7 county championship games) and leg spinner, and Mason Crane (season long loan).
Crane’s an interesting one, won an England cap years ago. What they could be do with is a decent Cardiff pitch to bowl on- that’d be a novelty.
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