The St. Helen’s Balconiers are planning an ambitious programme of Daffodil Cricket Tours in support of Glamorgan CCC in the County Championship in 2024.
Arrangements for rooms and transfers are being sought at present, we hope to be able to provide costs and further details soon.
For a full list of Glamorgan Fixtures 2024 please see below:
Fixtures for the 2023 season have been released by the ECB.
Fuller details on the fixtures which involve Glamorgan C.C.C. can be viewed at URL:
https://glamorgancricket.com/news/2023-glamorgan-fixtures-announced
Daffodil Cricket Tours are making arrangements / enquiries regarding transport and hotels to enable attendance at all the County Championship fixtures involving Glamorgan away from Sophia Gardens.
In summary these are:
27 – 30 April Leicestershire v Glamorgan, Leicester
4 – 7 May Yorkshire v Glamorgan, Headingley
18 – 21 May Sussex v Glamorgan, Hove
11 – 14 June Durham v Glamorgan, Chester-le-Street
10 – 13 July Glamorgan v Leicestershire, TBC hence may be N. Wales
20 – 23 July Gloucestershire v Glamorgan, Cheltenham
25 – 28 July Derbyshire v Glamorgan, Derby
3 – 6 September Worcestershire v Glamorgan, Worcester
Further details and confirmation of the tours will be made available as soon as possible.
The two documents below detail the fixtures for the Glamorgan 1st XI and the Welsh Fire (Men and Women) teams. The documents are essentially the same just one in colour and the other in black & white.
30 NOV 2021 | CRICKET – from the Glamorgan Website
The ECB has confirmed the announcement of the women’s and men’s domestic fixtures for next summer will be released as early as possible in 2022.
The creation of a fixture list is a complex task that requires certainty around many factors including tour schedules, venues for all internationals, men’s and women’s, and other major matches.
LV= Insurance County Championship matches will be played regularly from the start of the season until the end of July. The Royal London Cup and The Hundred will follow before the Championship finishes in September.
The Charlotte Edwards Cup will be played in May and June with the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy in the second half of the season.
The Vitality Blast will commence at the end of May with Finals Day to be staged at Edgbaston on 16 July.
We know how much members and supporters like to plan ahead for next summer and thank you for your patience. We will update when we have further details from the ECB on when fixtures are to be published.
Glamorgan will feature in Division Two of the County Championship having finishing in fourth place in Division Two in 2019 and will play Derbyshire, Durham, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Nottinghamshire, Sussex and Worcestershire next season.
There will be 10 counties in Division One and eight in Division Two with a two-up, two-down promotion-and-relegation system.
Each county will play 14 LV= Insurance County Championship matches.
When will fixtures be announced?
The ECB is aiming to announce fixture no earlier than the end of November 2021.
For further and fuller details see: LV= Insurance County Championship Returns to Two Divisions in 2022 | Glamorgan Cricket News
Daffodil Tours will be in operation once the fixtures and venues are known.
Having played ten games in the initial Group Stage, the 18 First-Class Counties have been split into three Divisions based on finishing positions in their respective groups. In the Division Stage, each county will play four more County Championship matches to determine their final finishing position.
They will not play against the other team from their initial group, but will carry through half the number of points it scored in the two matches played against that team in the Group Stage. This could result in half points being carried forward.
So, for example, Northamptonshire and Glamorgan both progressed to Division Two from Group Three and Northamptonshire carry forward 16 points – half of the 32 points they gained against Glamorgan thanks to a win and a draw. Glamorgan take through 11.5 points from the draw and accumulated bonus points from those two matches.
Today the “White Ball Fixtures” were announced for the 2021 season.
Vitality Blast returns to the schedule in a 14-game group-stage format with Edgbaston to host Finals Day on 18 September. Royal London Cup returns to the schedule from 22 July with final to be staged at Trent Bridge on 19 August.
All Glamorgan’s home fixtures will be played at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, a statement from the club is reproduced below the fixture images.
Another piece of news announced today is that last year the Glamorgan live stream received club record numbers with over 587,000 people tuning in to watch our Vitality Blast and County Championship fixtures.
Glamorgan are pleased to say the live stream will be back this season and cover every home game across all three formats.
The club feels this is particularly important with the on-going uncertainty around crowds and the announcement earlier today that we will be unable to play at our out-grounds this season. Members and supporters across Wales and the world will still be able to follow and cheer the side from their homes this summer.
3 March 2021 update – Note Gloucestershire v Glamorgan T20 away fixture shown as 24/06/21 in the table below has been rescheduled to the 26/06/21.
CLUB STATEMENT: OUT-GROUND CRICKET IN 2021
5 FEB 2021 | CRICKET
It is with regret that the club announces that due to the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, we will be unable to play any domestic matches at our out-grounds this season.
All Glamorgan 1st XI fixtures in 2021 will instead be held at Sophia Gardens, with the first home match of the season starting on 15th April against Sussex in the LV= Insurance County Championship.
Chief Executive, Hugh Morris, said: “We always look forward to our Swansea, Newport and Colwyn Bay fixtures, so it is disappointing we will be unable to play at those venues this year.
“Unfortunately, the pandemic has created a series of challenges the club and our partners feel cannot be met in these uncertain times.
“We would face significant financial costs and logistical issues in running any out-ground cricket in 2021 if, as is likely, some of the current Coronavirus restrictions remain in place.
*Fixtures for the Royal London Cup, the Vitality Blast, The Hundred, and other tournaments will be released in the new year*
The First-Class Counties agreed in October to reshape the Men’s County Championship structure for next summer only to help mitigate against the possible impact of COVID-19.
Each First-Class County has initially been placed into one of three seeded groups of six and has been scheduled to play five home matches and five away matches during the Group Stage.
The opening nine rounds of Group Stage matches are to be played on consecutive weeks and all are due to begin on a Thursday with a scheduled Sunday finish.
The Group Stage will conclude in July with the Round 10 and 11 matches to begin on a Sunday. All the First-Class Counties will play in the final round of Group Stage fixtures.
The top two counties in each group, at the end of the Group Stage, will progress to Division One, with the other counties moving into Divisions Two and Three, where they will each play a further four matches.
The winner of Division One will be crowned the 2021 County Championship winners.
The opening round of Divisional Stage matches will begin on the Bank Holiday Monday 30 August.
The five-day Bob Willis Trophy final will be played between the top two counties in Division One and is scheduled to start on Tuesday 27 September.
*Fixtures for the Royal London Cup, the Vitality Blast, The Hundred, and other tournaments will be released in the new year*
Next summer will see the return of both the County Championship and the Bob Willis Trophy after the First-Class Counties agreed a revised structure for next season.
Glamorgan are in Group 3 with Kent, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northamptonshire and Sussex.
Here are some common questions with responses about both competitions to help you come to grips with the plans.
Every team will begin the season with the opportunity to win both the County Championship and the Bob Willis Trophy. The County Championship will run in two stages:
Group Stage
The 18 First-Class Counties have been split into three seeded groups of six counties. Each county will play the other counties in their group both home and away – a total of 10 matches.
At the end of the group stage, the top two counties in each group will progress to Division One for the second phase of the County Championship.
The other 12 counties will move into Divisions Two and Three. The third and fourth-placed teams will progress to Division Two while the fifth and sixth-placed teams move to Division Three.
Division Stage
The First-Class Counties will play their final four County Championship matches after progressing to their Division.
The 2021 County Championship title will be decided by the team that finishes top of Division One.
The top two teams in Division One will play for the Bob Willis Trophy in a five-day final at Lord’s to ensure a showpiece event to conclude the men’s first-class domestic season.
The playing conditions for the final are to be confirmed and will be announced in due course.
All three groups have six teams, shown in order of seeding:
Group 1: Essex, Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Worcestershire, Durham
Group 2: Somerset, Hampshire, Surrey, Gloucestershire, Middlesex, Leicestershire Group
Group 3: Kent, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Northamptonshire, Glamorgan, Sussex
The three groups for the 2021 County Championship
Seedings for the Group Stage of the 2021 County Championship have been determined based on performances during the 2019 County Championship and the 2020 Bob Willis Trophy.
There has been a provision to accommodate derby matches within the groups, where appropriate with the seeding structure. This is to ensure that county members and supporters can look forward to some of county cricket’s oldest rivalries resuming home and away next summer.
Yes. Glamorgan (+16 others) will be competing to prevent Essex defending both titles after winning the 2019 County Championship and the Bob Willis Trophy this summer.
The full fixture list for the 2021 season, and the playing conditions for the men’s first-class season, will be announced in due course.
Thursday August 27th 2020 18:30 BST, Sophia Gardens Cardiff, Cardiff
Glamorgan vs Worcestershire Rapids
Saturday August 29th 2020 14:00 BST, The Bristol County Ground, Bristol
Gloucestershire vs Glamorgan
Sunday August 30th 2020 14:00 BST, Sophia Gardens Cardiff, Cardiff
Glamorgan vs Birmingham Bears
Tuesday September 1st 2020 18:30 BST, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton
Somerset CCC vs Glamorgan
Thursday September 3rd 2020 18:30 BST, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Steelbacks vs Glamorgan
Friday September 11th 2020 18:30 BST, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Birmingham Bears vs Glamorgan
Sunday September 13th 2020 14:00 BST, Sophia Gardens Cardiff, Cardiff
Glamorgan vs Steelbacks
Wednesday September 16th 2020 18:30 BST, Sophia Gardens Cardiff, Cardiff
Glamorgan vs Somerset CCC
Friday September 18th 2020 18:30 BST, Sophia Gardens Cardiff, Cardiff
Glamorgan vs Gloucestershire
Sunday September 20th 2020 13:00 BST, Blackfinch New Road, Worcester
Worcestershire Rapids vs Glamorgan
Thursday October 1st 2020 18:30 BST, Venues: TBC
Quarter Final 1, Vitality Blast 2020 TBC v TBC
Quarter Final 2, Vitality Blast 2020 TBC v TBC
Quarter Final 3, Vitality Blast 2020 TBC v TBC
Quarter Final 4, Vitality Blast 2020 TBC v TBC
Vitality Blast Finals Day at Edgbaston on Saturday 3 October 2020
For more information:
https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/1751561
https://www.glamorgancricket.com/news/glamorgan-gears-up-for-vitality-blast