Гламорганның 2005 жылғы маусымы: Регрессия және күрес

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Glamorgan County Cricket Club started their 2005 season as defending totesport League champions, but the 2005 season ended without a trophy – instead, they suffered relegation in the first class form. They played their first class cricket in the First Division of the County Championship. They started the Championship season at 25–1 to win, and favourites to be relegated – which they eventually were, winning one of sixteen games in the Championship season to finish bottom – nearly 100 points behind the first team to avoid relegation. By the end of August, they had confirmed relegation with three games remaining. In the National League, they hovered around mid table for most of the season, before a run of three unbeaten games at the end of August sent them out of the relegation zone, and they finished the season in fourth place. In the C&G Trophy, they were knocked out at the second round stage by eventual champions Hampshire, while the Twenty20 campaign saw them finish bottom of their group with two wins from eight matches. Glamorgan played 17 first class games in 2005, winning one, drawing two and losing 14. Their 18 List A matches gave seven wins, seven losses and four no results, while eight Twenty20 matches ended with two wins, five losses and one no result.

2005 County Championship – Division One Pos Team Pld W D L Pen BP Pts 1 Nottinghamshire 16 9 4 3 0 94 236 2 Hampshire 16 9 4 3 0.5 92 233.5 3 Sussex 16 7 6 3 0 102 224 4 Warwickshire 16 8 3 5 0.5 86 209.5 5 Kent 16 6 7 3 8.5 99 202.5 6 Middlesex 16 4 7 5 0.5 98 181.5 7 Surrey 16 4 9 3 8.5 97 180.5 8 Gloucestershire 16 1 5 10 2 72 104 9 Glamorgan 16 1 1 14 0 71 88.5

2005 Twenty20 Cup – Midlands/Wales/West DivisionTeamPldWLNRPtsNRRNorthamptonshire Steelbacks842210+1.17Warwickshire Bears84319+0.79Somerset Sabres84319+1.08Gloucestershire Gladiators83328−1.44Worcestershire Royals83417−0.46Glamorgan Dragons82515 1.09

Their first three day game of the season was batting practice against the students of Cardiff UCCE, where Glamorgan made 994 runs for the loss of thirteen wickets in a drawn game. They then moved on to an away Championship match with defending county champions Warwickshire, which they lost by an innings and 43 runs. After that, their first two totesport League games were washed out by rain and abandoned as no results. The next Championship game was also lost, against Surrey, as Glamorgan ended the month without victories in any form of cricket.

The Dragons finally got to complete a one day league match, and also recorded their first win of the season, winning a shortened match at Trent Bridge by four runs, and following it up with a C&G Trophy victory over Suffolk on 4 May. That was followed up with two more Championship losses, against Gloucestershire and then Surrey, and the streak of defeats continued as eventual champions Essex beat them by five wickets in the National League. The defending champions of one day league cricket then got knocked out of the C&G Trophy with a six wicket defeat at home to Hampshire, and their fifth successive Championship loss also came at the hands of Hampshire, before they rounded off the month as it started by beating Worcestershire Royals in a day/night National League game at Sophia Gardens. They finished May bottom of the First Division of the Championship.

Glamorgan avoided loss for the first time of the Championship season against Sussex in a game reduced to three days because of rain. The following day, Glamorgan's Sunday League game against Nottinghamshire was abandoned because of rain, their third abandoned match out of six thus far in the season. Two Championship losses followed, to Kent and Middlesex (in a match where each team lost seven wickets, and three innings were ended by declarations). The next day, they were also beaten by Hampshire in Southampton, to go into the Twenty20 Cup without a win in June.

Glamorgan began their Twenty20 Cup with a win against eventual champions Somerset Sabres after losing fewer wickets than the Sabres, but lost the next four matches, and after the fifth was rained off they were ensured of not qualifying for the quarter final stage – although their 5 July win over Gloucestershire Gladiators was one of the main reasons Gloucestershire did not qualify. Their last match with Worcestershire was without any real importance for either team, as both teams were knocked out, but Worcestershire were still allowed to make the fourth highest score in Twenty20 Cup history – totalling 223.

After two wins to end the Twenty20 Cup, it was back to losing in the County Championship, going down to Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge for their eighth loss in nine games. In the National League, however, they jumped up to third place thanks to a five wicket win over Worcestershire. However, they looked unlikely to advance further from that third place, as they went down to second placed Middlesex at home in the National League, and Middlesex also defeated them in the County Championship encounter, as Glamorgan went down by an innings and 23 runs. They then achieved their second first class draw of the season, in a three day match with Bangladesh A where over half the match was lost to rain.

August started with two losses in first class games, to Kent and Warwickshire, and they also recorded a National League loss to Lancashire. A five wicket win over Northamptonshire three days later saw them out of the relegation zone, however, and they continued the trend by beating Gloucestershire in the same competition. They followed up their good form, recording their third victory in a row – and their first in the County Championship all season – by beating Gloucestershire. Their good form was ended a week later by Nottinghamshire, however.

September yielded one victory in seven matches for Glamorgan, but as they were already relegated in the Championship and almost assured of staying up in the National League it mattered little. It began with an eight wicket Championship loss and a League no result with Northamptonshire, before they lost a Championship match inside two days against Sussex. Then followed two matches in the National League, a five run loss to Middlesex first, before C&G Trophy champions Hampshire were bowled out for 69, giving Glamorgan a 151 run victory. Their Championship season was rounded off on 18 September with another loss, their 14th of the season, and they also lost their final League match to Gloucestershire.