Glamorgan meet Durham in the annual contest at Swansea in the Specsavers County Championship with the game at the St. Helen’s ground getting underway at 11am on Friday, May 26th.
After their spirited fightback against Nottinghamshire at Cardiff, plus a record-breaking stand between Colin Ingram and Chris Cooke, Glamorgan head west to Swansea for their next contest in the Specsavers County Championship as they meet Durham at the St.Helen’s ground
This will be the first time since 2004 that the two sides have met in first-class cricket, with the previous contest thirteen years ago at Sophia Gardens ending in a draw. This ended a sequence of six successive victories by Glamorgan over the north-eastern county, with the Welshmen winning in 1999 by seven wickets, by five wickets and ten wickets in 2002, by 8 wickets and by 369 runs in their two games in 2003, and then by 201 runs in the contest at Chester-le-Street in 2004.
This will be Durham’s second visit to the St. Helen’s ground, having won the contest in 1995 by six wickets. That game 22 years ago was also the last time when Durham were victorious on Welsh soil, with a first innings hundred by Manoj Prabhakar trumping the efforts of Hugh Morris and Tony Cottey who each scored centuries in the four-day contest before a hundred by Darren Blenkiron saw Durham home on the final day.