County cricket latest: Glamorgan v Essex at St Helen’s

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Glamorgan have omitted David Lloyd from their 12-man squad with on-loan seamer James Harris preferred.

Glamorgan: J Rudolph, W Bragg, M Wallace (capt), M Goodwin, C Cooke, J Allenby, G Wagg, A Salter, J Harris, D Cosker, M Hogan.

Essex: T Westley, N Browne, R Bopara, J Ryder, R ten Doeschate, G Smith, J Foster (capt), G Napier, S Mahmood, M Salisbury, M Panesar.

History

Glamorgan have a decent record in their recent Championship games at Swansea and they will be looking to make in three wins in a row at the St. Helen’s ground having beaten Gloucestershire by 26 runs in 2012 and Leicestershire by an innings last summer.

There are also some personal landmarks looming on the horizon with Will Bragg, having so far amassed a personal-best seasonal aggregate of 913 runs in first-class cricket in 2014 needing a further 87 runs to reach 1,000 for the second time in his career. If the left-hander secures these runs at Swansea, he will also be the quickest to the landmark for Glamorgan for eight years, with Mike Powell having scored his 1,000 run on July 27, 2006

Michael Hogan also has 47 first-class wickets to his name and the tall fast bowler requires a further three victims to reach the fifty-mark for the second time in his county career.