Glamorgan CCC | One Day Cup Match Preview - 11/08/2024

A crunch clash towards the summit of the Group B table awaits on Sunday, as fourth-place Leicestershire welcome second-place Glamorgan to Uptonsteel County Ground.

The Foxes will be rejuvenated following Thursday’s convincing eight-wicket win against Yorkshire, with skipper Lewis Hill and debutant Alex Green both catching the eye.

Welsh county Glamorgan are unbeaten so far this campaign, with Thursday’s washout at Edgbaston keeping them level-pegging on 11 points with Warwickshire at the top of the table.

It's also Family Funday at Uptonsteel County Ground, with a host of new activities and attractions adding to the backdrop of 50-over cricket. Tickets start from £1, and can be purchased on the Curzon Road gate or online HERE.

Last Time We Met:

These sides don’t meet often in List A cricket. They’ve locked horns just once since August 2013 in fact. And that game didn’t stretch to a positive result, with rain ruining Leicestershire’s chase just six balls in.

Lewis Hill won the toss and elected to bowl first. Will Davis had future Fox Hamish Rutherford caught by George Rhodes diving at backward point, before a Nick Selman hundred put the visitors back on the front foot.

Rhodes then struck thrice, all three given leg-before, to wrestle back momentum and set up a chase of 278. But just one over into the Foxes’ reply, a maiden played out by Rishi Patel, the rain began to fall and forced both sides to settle for a point.

Decisive Duel:

Ian Holland’s return has been a huge boost to Alfonso Thomas’s team. Not many cricketers share the ability to open both the batting and the bowling with equal prowess, but the Wisconsin-born all-rounder does just that.

Holland has five wickets at 26.4 in his three games so far, and is the most economical bowler in the Foxes’ ranks, conceding at just 4.4 runs per over. With the bat, he’s added 119 runs at 39.67 alongside Sol Budinger at the top of the order, bested by 65 at Sussex.

Like Holland, Dan Douthwaite also holds the ability to win games with bat and ball. His stump-to-stump medium-fast bowling has yielded 15 wickets so far, the joint-second most in the competition, while his quickfire 34 at Essex showed his value in adding late runs batting at eight.

Squad:

The Foxes are unchanged from the squad which won at Scarborough last time out.

Leicestershire Foxes: Budinger, Cox+, Evans, Green, Handscomb, Hill*, Holland, Rahane, Scriven, Swindells, Trevaskis, Walker, Wood, Wright.