{"id":199007,"date":"2025-06-20T05:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199007\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T05:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T05:05:15","slug":"glamorgan-v-somerset-in-the-vitality-blast-squad-match-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199007\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorgan v Somerset in the Vitality Blast &#8211; Squad &#038; Match Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Glamorgan have released their squad for the Vitality Blast match against Somerset at Sophia Gardens on Friday 20 June.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glamorgan Men return to action after a short 5-day break for the much-awaited Pride Fixture, against Somerset in the Vitality Blast at Sophia Gardens. Richard Dawson&#8217;s boys come off the back of a big win against rivals and 2024 Blast winner Gloucestershire in Bristol. The Home of Welsh Cricket will welcome Somerset after almost a year, in a historic T20 match where Glamorgan by a huge margin of 120 runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kiran Carlson and the team will look to repeat the positives on Friday evening, where Sophia Gardens is expecting to have the biggest crowd of the year. Glamorgan currently sit in the 4th place, behind leaders Surrey, Somerset and Sussex Sharks. The Welsh county will look to further solidify their place in the top 4 before the Rothesay County Championship break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Squad for Somerset (home):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Kiran Carlson (c)<br \/>2. Tom Bevan<br \/>3. Chris Cooke<br \/>4. Mason Crane<br \/>5. Dan Douthwaite<br \/>6. Andy Gorvin<br \/>7. Colin Ingram<br \/>8. Ben Kellaway<br \/>9. Ned Leonard<br \/>10. Jamie McIlroy<br \/>11. Will Smale<br \/>12. Asa Tribe<br \/>13. Timm van der Gugten<br \/>14. Imad Wasim<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the last six head-to-head results between the two sides at Sophia Gardens:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>July 18th, <strong>2019<\/strong> at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff &#8211; <strong>Somerset won<\/strong> by 8 wickets<\/p>\n<p>Sept 16th,\u00a0<strong>2020<\/strong> at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff &#8211; <strong>Somerset won<\/strong> by 66 runs<\/p>\n<p>July 16th, <strong>2021<\/strong> at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff &#8211; <strong>Somerset won<\/strong> by 74 runs<\/p>\n<p>June 24th, <strong>2022<\/strong> at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff &#8211; <strong>Somerset won<\/strong> by 16 runs<\/p>\n<p>June 21st, <strong>2023<\/strong> at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff &#8211; <strong>Somerset won<\/strong> by 8 wickets<\/p>\n<p>July 19th, <strong>2024<\/strong> at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff &#8211; <strong>Glamorgan won<\/strong> by 120 runs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Streaming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match will be streamed for FREE on Glamorgan&#8217;s YouTube channel, with the first ball at 6:30pm. Regular updates can be found on our social media channels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan have released their squad for the Vitality Blast match against Somerset at Sophia Gardens on Friday 20&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114713954096134880","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}