{"id":674715,"date":"2026-07-05T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674715\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:16:14","slug":"glamorgan-preview-in-form-rapids-on-the-road-as-quarter-final-race-enters-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674715\/","title":{"rendered":"Glamorgan Preview: In-form Rapids on the road as quarter-final race enters Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no overestimating the importance of Sunday\u2019s meeting, with the two teams chasing a knockout place locked on 20 points, only separated by net run-rate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Worcestershire have fond memories of the last time the sides\u00a0met, when\u00a0the Rapids recorded a 27-run victory over their Welsh counterparts at New Road back in June.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the visitors have\u00a0not quite entered\u00a0\u201cmathematical must-win\u201d territory just yet, with just three matches\u00a0remaining\u00a0in the group, a win would significantly boost Worcestershire\u2019s chances of qualification for the knockout stages given their opponents on Sunday have a game in hand.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the importance of the fixture against Glamorgan in the context of the group being well documented, Isaac says his side\u00a0won\u2019t\u00a0be looking any further ahead than 3:30pm on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u00a0are all just focused on Sunday, to be honest. We know they are a good side and have already beaten some\u00a0really good\u00a0teams in this tournament, so we need to be at our best.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, we\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0a group that thinks too much about other stuff; all the leaders just keep us focused on what we are doing and sticking to our plans as best we can.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe senior guys keep us on track, like Hosey and Dolly are so good and have done it for a while now, we just stick to our guns really.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should be pretty cool, going to a new stadium in front of a big crowd in a big game.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is no overestimating the importance of Sunday\u2019s meeting, with the two teams chasing a knockout place locked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674715","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\/674715","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=674715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}