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15 unusual facts about Glamorgan County Cricket Club


1888 English cricket season

5 July: Formation of Glamorgan CCC took place at a meeting in the Angel Hotel, Cardiff.

Australian cricket team in England in 1902

The then minor counties Glamorgan and Wiltshire fielded a combined team for a non-first class match at Cardiff Arms Park.

Azeem Rafiq

This meant that neither Nottinghamshire nor Yorkshire went through, instead Glamorgan progressed to the quarter finals.

Bob Haines

Having played for the Kent Second XI in 1924, Haines joined Glamorgan nearly a decade later, making his first-class debut for the Welsh county against Nottinghamshire in the 1933 County Championship.

Clayton Robson

Robson hit 5 and 46 on his debut against Hampshire, and was retained for the county's next game, against Glamorgan.

Ek Park

Following independence the ground has been used by the Zambia national cricket team, who played county opponents in the form of Gloucestershire, Glamorgan and Warwickshire at the ground in the 1970s, though the matches held no official status.

Guy Pedder

Educated at Repton School and later attending Trinity College, Oxford, Pedder made his debut in minor counties cricket for Norfolk against Cambridgeshire in the 1913 Minor Counties Championship, with him making a further appearance in that season against Glamorgan.

Hartley Lobban

After two rather unsuccessful outings against Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, Lobban returned to form in the last match of the season, taking a career-best 6-51 against Glamorgan; he and Reg Perks (4-59) bowled unchanged throughout the first innings.

Jock Tait

A right-hand bat and occasional right-arm off break bowler, Tait played forty four first class cricket matches for Glamorgan between 1921 and 1926, having played minor county cricket for the club since 1911.

Maurice Turnbull

In cricket he captained the Cambridge University team in his final year of college and captained the Glamorgan County Cricket Club for ten seasons.

Norman Biggs

Biggs also played cricket for Glamorgan and in 1893 was part of a team that took on Cardiff in a two-day match; he faced his brother Selwyn, who was a member of the Cardiff team.

Philip Weaver

Weaver made two first-class appearances for Hampshire in the 1938 County Championship against Glamorgan and his second and final first-class match against Cambridge University, in which he made his highest first-class score of 37.

Phillip Garner

He made his debut for the team in a List A match against Somerset in the 1985 Benson & Hedges Cup, playing a further match for the team in the same competition against Glamorgan.

Stuart Westley

With the conclusion of his studies, Westley joined Gloucestershire later in the 1969 English cricket season, making his first-class debut for the county against Glamorgan.

Timothy Catley

Catley, who represented the side in the Minor Counties Championship between 1999 and 2006, made a single List A appearance, in 2005, against Glamorgan.


Chris Peploe

He twice took four-wicket hauls in this form of the game, one of which came in front of the Sky cameras against Glamorgan in 2005.

Colwyn Bay Cricket Club Ground

The ground was first used by the Glamorgan 1st XI in 1966, although County Championship matches have only been an annual fixture since 1990 (with the exception of 1991 and 1996).

Edward Stock Hill

Sir Edward's son was the Oxford University and Somerset cricketer Vernon Hill and his grandson Mervyn Hill represented Somerset, Glamorgan, Cambridge University and MCC.

Ernie Carless

Carless made his first-class debut for Glamorgan in 1934 against Middlesex, though Tom Brierley kept wicket in this match; he played one further match for the county in that season, against Surrey, when Carless kept wicket.

Joe Buckland

Buckland made one first-class appearance during the 1948 season, playing in an early season friendly match at Rodney Parade, Newport, against Glamorgan in which both teams tried out new players.

Mark Ilott

His best remembered moment, however, may have been for having an on-field confrontation with Robert Croft during a Natwest Trophy semi final against Glamorgan in 1997.

Nathan McCullum

McCullum is building a reputation as a travelling Twenty 20 player, having played in Twenty 20 tournaments since 2010 for Lancashire, Pune Warriors India, Sydney Sixers and Glamorgan as well as still turning out for his native side Otago.

Netherlands national cricket team

Several Dutch cricketers have also played at first-class level elsewhere, the most successful of these probably being Roland Lefebvre who played for Somerset and Glamorgan in English county cricket as well as for Canterbury in New Zealand.

Peter Such

It was at Essex where he gained most success although he is perhaps best remembered for hitting the winning boundary in the second day of a Natwest Trophy semi final against Glamorgan in 1997 when play had been suspended the day before due to bad light with Mark Ilott and Robert Croft having an on field confrontation seen on BBC television.

Trevor Ford

In 1968, Ford briefly acted as a substitute fielder for Glamorgan in their County Championship match against Nottinghamshire at St. Helen's, Swansea in the match during which Sir Garfield Sobers hit his world record six sixes from an over bowled by Malcolm Nash.

Wilf Wooller

His bowling performances and aggressive batting attracted the attention of Maurice Turnbull, Glamorgan's influential county captain and he was selected for the Championship match against Yorkshire at the Cardiff Arms Park ground.