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Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to bat.
The first day start was put back to 12 noon because of the Twenty20 matches on Friday night. The next three days will all begin at the more traditional 11am.
Glamorgan named an unchanged side from the team who defeated Kent at the Swalec Stadium. Gloucestershire captain Michael Klinger was ruled out with a foot injury with Hamish Marshall taking over the leadership role.
Mark Wallace and his side will be hoping that they can build on their victory at Cardiff over Kent and further consolidate on their place in fourth spot in the Division Two table, and with a game in hand over those above them.
Gloucestershire: W Tavare, C Dent, A Gidman, H Marshall (capt), I Cockbain, B Howell, W Gidman, C Herring (wkt), T Smith, L Norwell, M Taylor.
Glamorgan: J Rudolph, W Bragg, M Wallace (capt, wk), B Wright, C Cooke, J Allenby, G Wagg, R Smith, A Salter, D Cosker, M Hogan.
History
Last summer’s encounter between the two sides at the Nevil Road ground proved to be a high-scoring draw with Murray Goodwin and Jim Allenby completing centuries for the Welsh county, before Michael Klinger and Alex Gidman followed suit for the West Country side.
The game in 2012 at Bristol was abandoned without a ball being bowled, but Gloucestershire were victorious when the two teams met at the ground in 2011, with some probing seam bowling by Jon Lewis, Will Gidman and David Payne seeing their side record a five-wicket victory
Glamorgan’s last win at Nevil Road in a four-day contest came in a rain-affected contest in April 2008 when they were victorious by 114 runs after David Hemp had completed half-centuries in each innings and Jason Gillespie had delivered a feisty spell of seam bowling
The two sides have already met in 2014, with the rain-affected contest at Cardiff ending all square, and after their recent contest in the NatWest T20 Blast had also been affected by the weather.
