However, One Day Cup and T20 Blast duties over the height of the summer clearly stalled that momentum.<\/p>\n
The stats don’t lie – a dismal run of three defeats and a draw when they returned to red-ball cricket in late August saw them plummet down the table.<\/p>\n
Glamorgan’s runs per innings in their first four games back in Championship action decreased to a paltry 132.4. They were even skittled out for 134 over two innings against title-winners Warwickshire.<\/p>\n
Head coach Richard Dawson labelled that performance as “unacceptable” in a scathing verdict as their season ran the risk of unravelling in the dying embers.<\/p>\n
“You’re always talking to people and focusing on areas where we feel we can support,” said Dawson at the time.<\/p>\n
“This isn’t just a player thing, this is me and the coaching staff, all of us as a group.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to put the work in and go in with a clear head next week.”<\/p>\n
It was a message that clearly worked as the Welsh county re-found some batting form to steer them clear of relegation.<\/p>\n
Tribe again led with the way with two centuries, as Glamorgan averaged 410.3 runs per innings in their final two matches, beating Surrey by 184 runs before a rained-off draw with Essex on the final day of the season.<\/p>\n
It secured the Sophia Gardens club sixth place, but many were left wondering what might have been had they not seen such a dramatic late-summer drop-off in batting form.<\/p>\n
“It’s been a different challenge for the lads, physically it’s a tough season, especially when you throw in the rest of the competitions as well,” said Dawson.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got a slightly smaller squad than quite a few other teams, so it’s been interesting to see how we’ve been able to respond to those challenges as a club, as a changing room and as coaching staff.<\/p>\n
“We’ll have a bit of a review. See where we’ve done well, where we can improve and what additions we can make over the winter.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, One Day Cup and T20 Blast duties over the height of the summer clearly stalled that momentum.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798971","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\/798971","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=798971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}