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11 hours ago
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Glamorgan assistant Harrison to run One Day Cup campaign
Glamorgan assistant coach David Harrison will be in charge of the county's MetroBank One Day Cup campaign, with batter Colin Ingram taking on his first senior coaching seam bowler Harrison, 43, previously ran the 50-overs side between 2021 and 2023, including the title win in takes over for the tournament in August because head coach Richard Dawson is working for the Welsh Fire franchise in the 40, will assist Harrison along with Ian Harvey, Dawson's former Gloucestershire colleague who has been with Glamorgan most of the summer. South Africa international Ingram is now settled in South Wales with his family and has been working part-time with Glamorgan's academy have twice won the One Day Cup since it was moved in the season to run alongside the Hundred, with New Zealander Grant Bradburn at the helm in 2024 before his abrupt departure from the club after just one season."I've had some good experiences in three years of doing the One Day Cup including fantastic memories of Trent Bridge in 2021, and we've had some initial conversations as to how it's going to look this year," Harrison told BBC Sport Wales."Colin (Ingram) has got a wealth of experience across all formats of the game, he's done some coaching with our pathway players and he's a great leader in that changing-room as well. "He'll still be available to play, but initially we're going to use him in a coaching role in that competition."Harrison knows the club has to strike a balance between winning games and giving younger players a chance in what is often seen as a development tournament."Ideally it would be lovely to win the competition, but it's also going to provide opportunities for more people to get exposure in the first team," he said."We've had younger guys coming in at times in the T20 and performing, but it's difficult to plan too much with so many moving parts."Glamorgan have lost both their specialist spinners, Ben Kellaway and Mason Crane, to the Welsh Fire squad so there could be an opportunity for North Walian left-arm spinner Romano Franco, 18, to make a debut after impressing in a string of second-team Henry Hurle, 19, who technically made his debut in the 2024 competition without batting or fielding in a rain-hit game at Edgbaston, could also get a chance to begin the One Day Cup with their only two home out-ground matches of the season, hosting Hampshire and Derbyshire at Neath on Tuesday 5 and Thursday 7 August.
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14 hours ago
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Glamorgan edge low-scoring first day as Kent fold
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day one)Kent 155 (53.2 overs): Bell-Drummond 42; Van der Gugten 3-27, Harris 3-35Glamorgan 125-4 (42 overs): Ingram 32*; Agar 3-29Glamorgan 3 pts, Kent 1 ptMatch scorecard Glamorgan edged day one against Kent as they ground their way to 125-4 in reply to the visitors' modest 155 all out, which featured a spectacular van der Gugten and James Harris took three wickets each as Kent lost their last six wickets for seven runs in the Bell-Drummond top-scored with 42, while the visitors suffered the loss of Joe Denly who hobbled off with a leg injury after making 17. But Wes Agar led a disciplined reply from the Kent attack with three wickets in the home reply, with Colin Ingram's 32 not out the top score in a long evening session. It was a hard-fought day with the Kookaburra ball and a slowish wicket keeping scoring rates down. Glamorgan were led by Kiran Carlson in the absence of former Kent man Sam Northeast on paternity leave, with Billy Root, Asitha Fernando and Ned Leonard coming into the side while the visitors recalled Chris Benjamin, Joe Denly and Grant seemed little early difficulty for the Kent openers as they dispatched the Kookaburra ball to the boundary regularly, before the in-form Ben Compton edged a catch behind off Fernando for 17, while Jaydn Denly drove James Harris to cover for 29. He was replaced by his uncle Joe Denly, but Denly senior's second Championship appearance of the season was ill-fated as he survived a chance to short leg off Timm van der Gugten, only to get injured setting off for a single at 81-2. Chris Benjamin and Bell-Drummond steered them to a solid position of 111-2 at lunch, but when Benjamin was judged lbw to spinner Ben Kellaway for 23, the Kent innings stalled and eventually fell apart in der Gugten removed Joey Evison for 14, Harry Finch also caught behind for one and Matt Parkinson first ball, while Harris got the key wicket of Bell-Drummond leg-before as Carlson rotated the bowling frequently and effectively. Zain Ul Hassan's second ball dismissed Agar and Harris had Matt Quinn caught behind as the last three failed to contribute, with Grant Stewart left stranded as Joe Denly was not fit to reappear. Kent's bowlers started in disciplined fashion as Agar bowled Asa Tribe off bat and pad, while Carlson's counter-attack was ended by Matt Quinn finding the edge of his bat after he raced to 27 off 25 (8) tried to dig in on his seasonal debut but found an attempted pull off Agar somehow flying to Benjamin who took a fine catch at slip, and Agar then ended Ul Hassan's long vigil on 27 with a vicious bouncer which brushed his gloves for Finch to take. Ingram hit Evison for six early on but he and Kellaway (23 not out) mostly reined in their shots in the last hour of a day which failed to produce an individual half-century or a 50 stand.
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2 days ago
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Fernando return boosts Glamorgan for Championship run-in
Sri Lanka pace bowler Asitha Fernando has rejoined Glamorgan and is available for the remainder of their County Championship 27-year-old featured in Glamorgan's opening six Championship matches in his first stint at Sophia Gardens earlier this season, taking 17 then departed for Sri Lanka's Test Series against Bangladesh, while he also made a recent single outing for Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club against Colombo trained with the Glamorgan squad in Cardiff on Monday and is in contention for a place in Tuesday's Division Two fixture against Kent, which is set for an 11:00 BST start at Sophia Gardens.
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3 days ago
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'We felt like Premier League footballers' - Jones relives 2005 Ashes
"We felt like Premier League footballers. There was a massive crowd and they had turned away 10,000 people. It was obscene the amount of people who wanted to come and watch. "It was like, 'wow this is something to behold'. I don't think it'll ever happen again." It may be 20 years since arguably the most iconic Test series in Ashes history, but former England bowler Simon Jones can still see every moment in his mind's eye. Jones' 20-20 vision is hardly surprising given the bigger picture: 2005 was England's first Ashes series win since 1987. It not only ended an 18-year, eight-series losing run but it was an endless cricketing summer that flipped the Ashes narrative. England teams since that summer have stored that storied series in their psyche somewhere. They enter with a belief that victory is an option again. Jones' story mirrors that big-picture narrative. The 2005 series – relived in a BBC Sport documentary on iPlayer – was the zenith of a career cruelly cut short by injury. Jones took 18 wickets, including a career-best 6-53 at Trent Bridge, despite, appropriately perhaps, only playing three and a half Tests because of an ankle injury. Despite that setback, the former Glamorgan fast bowler remembers the summer as a once-in-a-lifetime blur of front and back-page news and Downing Street garden parties. It all began at a febrile Lord's that was more stag party than traditional tea party. The home of cricket is known for its serenity. Popping champagne corks rather than popping off. But as Jones remembers, 2005 felt different, even before a ball was bowled. "When we went through that Long Room, and we walked down the stairs and through the pavilion, it erupted," he says. "I remember Kev [Kevin Pietersen] turning around and saying to me: 'What is going on here?' "It almost shocked us really. Normally it is all the members and they are a bit subdued. A bit staid. A bit posh. "But people were saying 'take these down' and we were all like, 'OK, here we go'." Listen - Simon Jones: The 2005 Ashes and me England rocked the Aussies early on - literally and figuratively. Ricky Ponting was hit in the grille in a first innings during which they were dismissed for 190 - but a Glenn McGrath-inspired Australia went on to win that Test comfortably by 239 runs. "When Steve Harmison hit Ponting, which never happens by the way, nobody went to check on him," Jones says. "The Australians said this was a different team, like a pack of wolves coming in for the kill. "And it was. We wanted to take them down." If 2005 was one of the most iconic series of all times, the second Test at Edgbaston has gone down as one of the best individual matches of any series. Andrew Flintoff was at his imperious best with bat - making 68 and 73 - and ball, claiming seven wickets including an iconic second-innings over during which he dismissed Justin Langer and Ponting. His act of sportsmanship - commiserating with Australia batter Brett Lee when England had scraped to a two-run victory, after Harmison dismissed Michael Kasprowicz - is an image that is etched into Ashes history. Etched into Jones' memory is how Harmison's final wicket saved him from "getting his P45" having feared he'd "dropped the Ashes" when he spilled Kasprowicz on the boundary earlier in the day. Jones' days in the sun were to come in the third and fourth Tests. England was in full Ashes fever by the third Test at Old Trafford - Jones' tale about 10,000 fans being turned away refers to the final day at Manchester. If 2005 was the zenith of Jones' career overall, his second-innings dismissal of Michael Clarke was the crowning moment. Clarke looked well set on 39 until Jones, having lured the Australian with outswingers on repeat, delivered the perfect inswinger. It's a delivery that has gone down in folklore - both for the iconic sound of off stump being upended, but also for the stump mic recording of Clarke's painful "oh no" realisation there was nothing he could do to reverse-engineer Jones' perfect reverse-swing ruse. England didn't win that Old Trafford Test but Clarke's dismissal, and a backs-to-the-wall Australia being forced to bat out for a draw, illustrated a turning of the tide. "It sounds like music," Jones says of the Clarke delivery. "It's the best noise in cricket. People want the noise that stump made as their ringtone and stuff. I love the fact that people are still playing it now. It's a long time. But people still think it's one of the best balls that has ever been bowled, so it's a really proud moment." England and Jones' 2005 stories have a lot of common ground. But there is one key, painful error where they diverge. While England have used that series as the springboard to write a number of famous Ashes victory stories in the 20 years since, for Jones it was a full stop. The Glamorgan fast bowler was injured in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge and never played for his country again. It's a fact that could leave Jones bitter - but it is quite the opposite. There is a touch of the Tennyson - "tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" - to Jones when asked if he'd have given up that endless 2005 Ashes summer for a more elongated Test career. "At the time, I didn't realise that would be my last Test for England," said Jones, who played 18 Tests for England. "It was like going from the penthouse to the outhouse. "I had the best summer of my life in an England shirt and then to never play again… but I'm a big believer in what will be, will be. It's better to have experienced it. Would you rather play 100 Tests and not have 2005, or would you rather play the 18 you played and have 2005? "It would be the 18 Tests with 2005 included every day of the week. "It didn't get better than that." Get cricket news sent straight to your phone
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3 days ago
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'We felt like Premier League footballers' - Jones relives 2005 Ashes
"We felt like Premier League footballers. There was a massive crowd and they had turned away 10,000 people. It was obscene the amount of people who wanted to come and watch."It was like, 'wow this is something to behold'. I don't think it'll ever happen again."It may be 20 years since arguably the most iconic Test series in Ashes history, but former England bowler Simon Jones can still see every moment in his mind's 20-20 vision is hardly surprising given the bigger picture: 2005 was England's first Ashes series win since 1987. It not only ended an 18-year, eight-series losing run but it was an endless cricketing summer that flipped the Ashes teams since that summer have stored that storied series in their psyche somewhere. They enter with a belief that victory is an option story mirrors that big-picture 2005 series – relived in a BBC Sport documentary on iPlayer – was the zenith of a career cruelly cut short by took 18 wickets, including a career-best 6-53 at Trent Bridge, despite, appropriately perhaps, only playing three and a half Tests because of an ankle that setback, the former Glamorgan fast bowler remembers the summer as a once-in-a-lifetime blur of front and back-page news and Downing Street garden all began at a febrile Lord's that was more stag party than traditional tea home of cricket is known for its serenity. Popping champagne corks rather than popping as Jones remembers, 2005 felt different, even before a ball was bowled."When we went through that Long Room, and we walked down the stairs and through the pavilion, it erupted," he says."I remember Kev [Kevin Pietersen] turning around and saying to me: 'What is going on here?'"It almost shocked us really. Normally it is all the members and they are a bit subdued. A bit staid. A bit posh."But people were saying 'take these down' and we were all like, 'OK, here we go'." England rocked the Aussies early on - literally and figuratively. Ricky Ponting was hit in the grille in a first innings during which they were dismissed for 190 - but a Glenn McGrath-inspired Australia went on to win that Test comfortably by 239 runs."When Steve Harmison hit Ponting, which never happens by the way, nobody went to check on him," Jones says."The Australians said this was a different team, like a pack of wolves coming in for the kill."And it was. We wanted to take them down."If 2005 was one of the most iconic series of all times, the second Test at Edgbaston has gone down as one of the best individual matches of any Flintoff was at his imperious best with bat - making 68 and 73 - and ball, claiming seven wickets including an iconic second-innings over during which he dismissed Justin Langer and Ponting. His act of sportsmanship - commiserating with Australia batter Brett Lee when England had scraped to a two-run victory, after Harmison dismissed Michael Kasprowicz - is an image that is etched into Ashes into Jones' memory is how Harmison's final wicket saved him from "getting his P45" having feared he'd "dropped the Ashes" when he spilled Kasprowicz on the boundary earlier in the day. Jones' days in the sun were to come in the third and fourth Tests. England was in full Ashes fever by the third Test at Old Trafford - Jones' tale about 10,000 fans being turned away refers to the final day at 2005 was the zenith of Jones' career overall, his second-innings dismissal of Michael Clarke was the crowning looked well set on 39 until Jones, having lured the Australian with outswingers on repeat, delivered the perfect a delivery that has gone down in folklore - both for the iconic sound of off stump being upended, but also for the stump mic recording of Clarke's painful "oh no" realisation there was nothing he could do to reverse-engineer Jones' perfect reverse-swing didn't win that Old Trafford Test but Clarke's dismissal, and a backs-to-the-wall Australia being forced to bat out for a draw, illustrated a turning of the tide. "It sounds like music," Jones says of the Clarke delivery."It's the best noise in cricket. People want the noise that stump made as their ringtone and stuff. I love the fact that people are still playing it now. It's a long time. But people still think it's one of the best balls that has ever been bowled, so it's a really proud moment." England and Jones' 2005 stories have a lot of common there is one key, painful error where they England have used that series as the springboard to write a number of famous Ashes victory stories in the 20 years since, for Jones it was a full Glamorgan fast bowler was injured in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge and never played for his country a fact that could leave Jones bitter - but it is quite the is a touch of the Tennyson - "tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all" - to Jones when asked if he'd have given up that endless 2005 Ashes summer for a more elongated Test career."At the time, I didn't realise that would be my last Test for England," said Jones, who played 18 Tests for England."It was like going from the penthouse to the outhouse."I had the best summer of my life in an England shirt and then to never play again… but I'm a big believer in what will be, will be. It's better to have experienced it. Would you rather play 100 Tests and not have 2005, or would you rather play the 18 you played and have 2005?"It would be the 18 Tests with 2005 included every day of the week."It didn't get better than that."
