At the end of the 2021 season, Carlson capped off a resurgent year by leading Glamorgan to One-Day Cup victory, a first trophy for the club since 2004. <\/p>\n
In 2026 – with Sam Northeast having rejoined Kent – he will be hoping to draw on those experiences as he takes the reins in first class matches for the club’s long-awaited return to division one of the County Championship<\/p>\n
“We played some really good cricket last year, and our team is full of match winners,” said Carlson. <\/p>\n
“We have a solid squad with some great players and human beings in there. It’s always a challenge being the underdog but it’s something I think we can use in our favour, there will be times when we will need to scrap but that’s fine.”<\/p>\n
Staying in Division One as a newly promoted side is a tough task for any team, let alone one led by a new club captain.<\/p>\n
However, Wallace believes Carlson and his team-mates will relish the challenge.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got a new-ish captain in Kieran. It was quite obvious early on that he’s a bright lad,” said Glamorgan’s director of cricket.<\/p>\n
“He understands the game. He’s he’s very much a people person, somebody who wants to build relationships. I think he’s certainly got the tactical nous and the tactical acumen to lead us well.<\/p>\n
“We will have to prove a few doubters wrong. We’re not underestimating the challenge that we’ll have in front of us having not played Division One cricket for so long.”<\/p>\n
With all of the challenges the top flight will bring to the County’s shores this summer, Glamorgan believe they have the right man to navigate them to safety.<\/p>\n
Carlson has shown throughout his career that he is not afraid of resetting after faliure and asking questions of himself.<\/p>\n
But what answers the Welshman comes up with this season may just end up defining Glamorgan’s year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the end of the 2021 season, Carlson capped off a resurgent year by leading Glamorgan to One-Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-416739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}