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With their new signing missing the season’s opener as he competes in an Iron Man competition, there’s plenty you might not know about Glamorgan this year. Toby Radford’s men begin their campaign with a County Championship opener with Surrey on Sunday and with Radford and former ECB supremo Hugh Morris new faces at the club, it’s been a winter of …

By Edward Bevan BBC Wales cricket correspondent 2013 will go down as a mixed year for Glamorgan County Cricket Club, and management changes over the winter are intended to reverse fortunes for 2014. The Welsh county finished last season one place from the bottom of Division Two of the County Championship, but made the final of the YB40 tournament at …

Seamers Will Owen and Andy Miller led the way for Glamorgan as they beat Worcestershire by 65 runs in a one-day friendly at Kidderminster. Glamorgan could only manage 145, with Will Bragg hitting 46 and Owen 27, with Chris Russell claiming four wickets. Owen took a hat-trick in his 4-23 as Worcestershire were dismissed for 80 with Miller, formerly with …

Sir Garfield Sobers © Getty Images   By Bharath Seervi   Sir Garfield Sobers is considered to be one of the greatest batsmen after Sir Don Bradman and the greatest all-rounder of all time. He was born on 28 July, 1936  at Barbados. Having made his Test Debut at a very young age of less than 18 in 1954, he …

New head coach Toby Radford wants Glamorgan to emulate Northamptonshire during his first season in charge. Northants won the Twenty20 title and gained promotion to Division One of the County Championship in 2013. Glamorgan reached the final of the 40-over tournament but finished second from bottom in the four-day league – and Radford wants that to change. “The priority I …

Glamorgan’s cricketers complete their programme of pre-season games by travelling to Kidderminster on Monday for a 50 over friendly contest against Worcestershire (11am). This match has been switched from New Road to Kidderminster because of the winter flooding at Worcester’s headquarters. Following their matches in the past fortnight against Gloucestershire and Cardiff MCCU, the Welsh county will head to Kidderminster …

Glamorgan County Cricket Club has revealed a partnership with the Tom Maynard Trust which will see its logo on front of its LV= County Championship shirts this season. The club, for which Maynard played between 2007 and 2011 before his tragic death in 2012, revealed the link-up earlier today with Director of Cricket Hugh Morris saying he hoped it would …

The new broom in charge of Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium says the venue can still find success by attracting more big concerts and creating ”iconic” events. Terry Davies (53), an English-born former cricketer working as an event and venue manager in Australia, started work as Dunedin Venues Management Ltd’s chief executive this week. Mr Davies is the company’s third chief …

Cricket in North Wales looks set to be bowled over by far reaching changes being planned to revitalise the game.  A new forum is being set up to provide a cohesive governance structure across all the cricketing elements in the region, to tackle and implement changes required. The new Cricket North Wales forum will help tackle issues within the game …

Last year 8th, CC Div 2; 3rd Midlands/West Div, FLt20; 2nd Group C, YB40. 2013 in a nutshell Glamorgan should look back on 2013 with a little smile. Any campaign that ends with a Lord’s final should go down as memorable year and that it was only their third trip to the end of season showpiece places Mark Wallace’s side …