Glamorgan travel to Northampton for their next match in the Specsavers County Championship as they meet the East Midlands side in the four-day contest scheduled to start at the Wantage Road ground at 11.00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 31st.
The past ten days has seen Northamptonshire – in their white-ball guise as the Steelbacks – win the NatWest T20Blast at Finals Day at Edgbaston, before having a remarkable four-day encounter at New Road as Chad Barratt, their debutant number ten batsman, struck a hundred on his Championship debut. The final day then saw the home side created a record-breaking achievement as they successfully chased 401 runs to win inside 79 overs.
Glamorgan also went down to a final afternoon defeat but in quite nail-biting circumstances as the Sussex tailenders rode their luck to record a two-wicket victory, despite another five-wicket haul from Timm an der Gugten.
After their reversals on Friday afternoon, both teams will be looking to getting back into winning ways with Glamorgan in seventh place in the table, level on points but with a game in hand.
Glamorgan’s visit to Northampton in September 2015 saw their match decimated by the weather as heavy bands of rain associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Henri causing 206 overs to be lost. Their match at Wantage Road in 2013 ended in defeat as the home side completed an emphatic by an innings and 25 runs in a contest which helped to clinch a promotion spot for the East Midlands side.
However, the Welsh county can look back more fondly on their visit in 2012 to Northampton when they won by three wickets, thanks to a composed innings by Jim Allenby, plus a breezy knock by John Glover, which saw Glamorgan home in a rain-affected contest as they successfully chased a stiff target of 351 on the final day of the contest.
The two sides have already met each other this year in Championship cricket at Swansea with Ben Sanderson claiming an eleven-wicket match haul as Northamptonshire won by 251 runs.