{"id":3613,"date":"2014-03-21T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2014-03-21T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:05:07","slug":"glamorgan-face-gloucestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/03\/21\/glamorgan-face-gloucestershire\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorgan face Gloucestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Glamorgan County Cricket Club have reached 89\/3 at lunch of their two-day friendly with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club at the\u00a0SWALEC stadium.\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/swalec-ground.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3616\" alt=\"swalec ground\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/swalec-ground-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3616\" alt=\"swalec ground\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/swalec-ground-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><br \/>\nGlamorgan got their pre-season underway yesterday in a rain-affected opening day of their fixture with Gloucestershire.<br \/>\nThe visitors reached 111\/3 just after lunch before the heavens opened and play was brought to an end after just 35 overs.<br \/>\nDespite this less than ideal start to their pre-season campaign, the players and backroom staff at Glamorgan are pleased with their progress ahead of the season\u2019s opener on April 6 against Surrey.<br \/>\nT20 captain Jim Allenby said: \u201cWe\u2019re building nicely, we\u2019re not ready right now but that\u2019s good because we\u2019re a few weeks out.\u201d<br \/>\nGlamorgan reached the final of the Yorkshire Bank 40 last year but haven\u2019t played in the first division since 2005 and promotion this year is the main aim.<br \/>\n\u201cOne-day cricket is important and we want to get to finals but a club like Glamorgan want to be in the first division,\u201d Caerphilly-born head coach Toby Radford stressed the importance of getting back into the top flight.<br \/>\n\u201cClearly four-day cricket for a county that I think represents the whole country, so it\u2019s a national team in many ways, I think deserves to be a first division team so that\u2019s a big aim for us,\u201d said the former West Indies World T20 winning coach.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Swalec-scoreboard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3618\" alt=\"Swalec scoreboard\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Swalec-scoreboard-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3618\" alt=\"Swalec scoreboard\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Swalec-scoreboard-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nRadford pulled the players in earlier than ever before this winter for pre-season with the promotion push to the first division firmly in the forefront of his mind. \u201cWinning in four-day [cricket] is about the mind-set and how you approach the game. We\u2019ve done a lot of work technically with the players in the winter, they\u2019ve had a lot of one-to-one coaching,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cThey\u2019ve done a lot more work this winter but they\u2019ve got to be accountable when they walk out onto the grass,\u201d the former West Indies coach added.<br \/>\nGlamorgan proved a much stronger force in the limited-overs format of the game last season, reaching a Lord\u2019s final for the first time in 13 years losing to Nottinghamshire.<br \/>\nThey impressed in the T20 before an uncharacteristic meltdown meant they narrowly missed out on the quarter finals. Radford admits his squad is better equipped to compete in one-day cricket again this season.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe way the squad is set up its probably more suited to one-day cricket if I\u2019m honest, in many ways we\u2019ve inherited last year\u2019s squad, we haven\u2019t brought in any new players other than Jacques Rudolph who\u2019s coming in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rudolph, a former South African international, has an impressive test match and first class record and he will be hoping his experience and talent can push Glamorgan into the promotion race come the business end of the season.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0;padding: 0;clear: both\">Related articles across the web<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0;padding: 0;overflow: hidden\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0;background: none;float: left;vertical-align: top;text-align: left;width: 104px;font-size: 12px;margin: 0 5px 10px 0\"><a style=\"padding: 2px;text-decoration: none\" href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/2014\/03\/18\/glamorgan-get-pre-season-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/257442218_150_150.jpg\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/257442218_150_150.jpg\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><a style=\"overflow: hidden;text-decoration: none;line-height: 12pt;height: 80px;padding: 5px 2px 0 2px\" href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/2014\/03\/18\/glamorgan-get-pre-season-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glamorgan get pre-season underway<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glamorgan County Cricket Club have reached 89\/3 at lunch of their two-day friendly with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club at the\u00a0SWALEC stadium.\u00a0 Glamorgan got their pre-season underway yesterday in a rain-affected opening day of their fixture with Gloucestershire. The visitors reached 111\/3 just after lunch before the heavens opened and play was brought to an end after just 35 overs. Despite this less than ideal start to their pre-season campaign, the players and backroom staff at Glamorgan are pleased with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":3616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1291,787,1636,2236,2237,2238,74],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-cardiff-2","tag-cricket","tag-glamorgan","tag-glamorgan-cricket-club","tag-gloucestershire","tag-gloucestershire-county-cricket-club","tag-sport-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Glamorgan face Gloucestershire - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/03\/21\/glamorgan-face-gloucestershire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Glamorgan face Gloucestershire - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Glamorgan County Cricket Club have reached 89\/3 at lunch of their two-day friendly with Gloucestershire County Cricket Club at the\u00a0SWALEC stadium.\u00a0 Glamorgan got their pre-season underway yesterday in a rain-affected opening day of their fixture with Gloucestershire. 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