The 2026 season was Glamorgan County Cricket Club's 139th year in existence and their 106th as a first-class cricket county. They played in Division One of the County Championship for the first time since 2005, having finished second in Division Two in 2025. They also played in the newly formed Central Group of the T20 Blast, and in Group B of the One-Day Cup. They began their One-Day Cup campaign with two matches at The Gnoll in Neath, their only outground for the season, the fifth year in a row they have played there.
It was the team's second season under head coach Richard Dawson; after initially signing a one-year contract in January 2025, he agreed a three-year extension that August. They also signed former Australia all-rounder Ian Harvey as an assistant coach on a full-time basis; Harvey had worked part-time with Glamorgan in 2025, and had also worked under Dawson during their time at Gloucestershire. Following the departure of Sam Northeast to his home county of Kent, Kiran Carlson was appointed as club captain, adding the red-ball duties to the white-ball captaincy he first held in 2021. With Dawson and Carlson involved in The Hundred, Glamorgan were coached by David Harrison in the One-Day Cup, and captained by Andy Gorvin.
South African Colin Ingram returned as one of the team's overseas players, along with Australian bowler Ryan Hadley, who joined for the first six games of the County Championship season. After Hadley's departure, fellow Australian Nathan McAndrew joined the team for the T20 Blast campaign and the two County Championship matches in June. Also joining for the T20 Blast was fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi, the first Afghanistan player to play for Glamorgan; however, Farooqi was recalled by the Afghanistan Cricket Board after the first two games of the Blast, leading to Glamorgan signing New Zealand international James Neesham for the remainder of the campaign. The Welsh county also added to their batting ranks with the signing of South Africa-born Sean Dickson, although he did not count against their overseas quota due to his UK passport. On 19 August, Glamorgan made a double-signing of left-arm seamers Raymond Toole and Mir Hamza; Toole was available for the final six County Championship games, while Hamza joined a week later.
In addition to Northeast, other major departures were batter Tom Bevan, who was released at the end of the 2025 season, and bowling all-rounder James Harris, who retired from professional cricket a week before the start of the Championship season. In August 2026, Chris Cooke announced that he would be retiring from professional cricket at the end of the season. Before the final match, Colin Ingram and Billy Root joined Cooke in announcing their retirement from professional cricket, with Ingram moving into a coaching role with Glamorgan.
At the end of the season, spinner Mason Crane was called up to the England squad for the 2026–27 Pakistan ODI Tri-Series, making him the first Glamorgan player called up to an England squad since Simon Jones in 2005.
Squad No. denotes the player's squad number, as worn on the back of their shirt. denotes players with international caps. denotes a player who has been awarded a county cap. Ages given as of the first day of the County Championship season, 3 April 2026.
No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Notes Batters 5 Kiran Carlson* Right-handed Right arm off break Club captain 7 Billy Root* Left-handed Right arm off break 17 Callum Nicholls Right-handed Right arm medium 23 Jack Hope-Bell Right-handed Right arm off break 41 Colin Ingram* Left-handed Right arm leg break Overseas player 55 Asa Tribe / Right-handed Right arm off break 58 Sean Dickson / Right-handed Right arm medium 81 Harry Wallace Left-handed — 97 Eddie Byrom / Left-handed Right arm off break — Lewis Popple Right-handed — All-rounders 8 Ben Kellaway Right-handed Right arm off break/left arm orthodox 27 Zain-ul-Hassan Left-handed Right arm medium 50 James Neesham Left-handed Right arm medium-fast Overseas player (T20 only) 88 Dan Douthwaite Right-handed Right arm medium-fast Wicket-keepers 6 Henry Hurle Right-handed Right arm off break 28 Will Smale Right-handed — 37 Alex Horton Right-handed — 46 Chris Cooke* Right-handed Right arm medium Bowlers 0 Nathan McAndrew Right-handed Right arm fast-medium Overseas player 3 Mason Crane Right-handed Right arm leg break 11 Andy Gorvin Right-handed Right arm medium One-Day Cup captain 12 Tom Norton Right-handed Right arm medium 16 Connor O'Riordan Left-handed Right arm medium-fast 18 Ben Morris Right-handed Right arm medium 22 Ned Leonard Right-handed Right arm medium 24 Tom Edwards Right-handed Right arm medium 26 Raymond Toole Left-handed Left arm medium Overseas player 34 Ryan Hadley Right-handed Right arm fast-medium Overseas player 35 Jamie McIlroy Right-handed Left arm fast-medium 64 Timm van der Gugten* / Right-handed Right arm medium-fast 77 Romano Franco Left-handed Left arm orthodox 83 Fazalhaq Farooqi Right-handed Left arm fast Overseas player (T20 only) 92 Mir Hamza Left-handed Left arm medium Overseas player
Pre-season and friendlies Glamorgan were scheduled to go on a pre-season tour to Oman in March, where they would play games against Worcestershire and the Oman national team; however, this tour was cancelled after the commencement of the 2026 Iran war. With the cancellation of the tour, their pre-season consisted of just one three-day match against Somerset at Taunton on 27–29 March.
Three-day: Somerset v Glamorgan (27–29 March)
County Championship Glamorgan are competing in Division One of the 2026 County Championship, their first season in the top division since 2005.
Matches Glamorgan v Yorkshire (3–6 April)
Glamorgan's return to top-flight cricket was delayed by inclement weather in Cardiff, with the first day's play not starting until after 4 p.m. The home side were soon reduced to 28/4 after being put in to bat, but 40-year-old Colin Ingram and 22-year-old Ben Kellaway put up stubborn resistance to get them to 99/4 by the close of play. Shortly before the end of the day, Yorkshire wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow suffered a hand injury that resulted in him being substituted by Will Luxton. On day 2, Kellaway managed a half-century before he was bowled by Dom Bess, leaving Chris Cooke (30) and then Timm van der Gugten to accompany Ingram on the way to his maiden top-flight century. After Ingram was removed by Ben Coad, Van der Gugten (40) and Mason Crane combined for Glamorgan's third 50+ partnership of the innings. By the time Crane was dismissed by Bess for 51, Glamorgan had reached 302.
After only 10 more balls were possible at the end of the second day, Yorkshire's response began in earnest the following morning; however, they had just 11 runs on the board before Glamorgan took their first Division 1 wicket of the season, Finlay Bean edging a delivery from Van der Gugten to wicket-keeper Cooke for 4. Adam Lyth and Sam Whiteman looked to stabilise the Yorkshire innings, but a quickfire pair of wickets from spinner Crane, and then another a few overs later, saw the visitors reduced to 113/4, with Whiteman gone just shy of a half-century. Lyth was next to go, removed by Glamorgan debutant Ryan Hadley for 37, before Crane struck again to take the wicket of George Hill (2). Van der Gugten trapped Bess lbw for 32 to break up a promising partnership between him and Matt Revis, leaving Yorkshire at 177/7. Hadley then picked up another two wickets, getting rid of Logan van Beek and, shortly after his half-century, Revis, before Crane wrapped up a five-wicket haul with the scalp of Coad.
With a lead of 76 runs and 45 overs left to bowl on day 3, Glamorgan managed to add another 111 runs before the close of play, but not before they lost three wickets; Eddie Byrom (40) and captain Kiran Carlson were the main protagonists, but Asa Tribe (19) and debutant Sean Dickson (2) fell to the spin bowling of Bess before Byrom himself was removed by Van Beek. Joined by Ingram, Carlson reached 32 by the end of the day, and completed a half-century shortly after the start of day 4; however, the accelerated run rate saw him bowled by Bess not long after. Ingram joined him with a second fifty of the match, again supported by Kellaway from the other end, and when Ingram became Bess' fourth victim of the innings, caught by Revis for 75, Glamorgan decided to declare at 218/5, a lead of 294.
That gave Yorkshire 68 overs to reach their target, and they managed to put on 67 runs before losing their first wicket to the bowling of Crane, who trapped Bean lbw for 23. Another 50+ partnership followed before Crane tempted Whiteman (24) into a chipped catch to Kellaway with the second ball after tea, and Crane picked up a third soon after, bowling Wharton for 10. Ryan Hadley trapped Luxton lbw with Yorkshire on 162, before Kellaway effectively ended their run chase as Lyth edged him behind just three runs short of a century. The visitors still needed 118 more runs as they entered the last 20 overs, forcing them to play for the draw as Glamorgan removed Revis and Bess before the game petered out.
Nottinghamshire v Glamorgan (10–13 April)
Glamorgan v Leicestershire (24–27 April)
Hampshire v Glamorgan (1–4 May)
Glamorgan v Somerset (8–11 May)
Warwickshire v Glamorgan (15–18 May)
Sussex v Glamorgan (12–15 June)
Glamorgan v Surrey (19–22 June)
Leicestershire v Glamorgan (20–23 August)
Glamorgan v Hampshire (27–30 August)
Somerset v Glamorgan (2–4 September)
Glamorgan v Warwickshire (8–11 September)
Surrey v Glamorgan (15–18 September)
The first day of the match saw Glamorgan bowled out for just 132 runs, with a top score of 33 from 19-year-old Jack Hope-Bell, losing their last six wickets for just 23 runs; however, they responded well by bowling Surrey out for 115, Zain-ul-Hassan leading the bowling with 4/26 in just eight overs. With a first-innings lead of 17, Glamorgan saw off 9.2 overs without losing a wicket before a premature close of play brought about by bad light.
Glamorgan batted through the second day led by opener Asa Tribe, who reached an unbeaten 142 before the close of play – his fifth first-class century – assisted by 57 from Kiran Carlson and 43 from Ben Kellaway. They added 309 runs over the course of the day for the loss of just five wickets, putting them in the driving seat to claim the win that would secure top-flight survival.
Tribe was eventually dismissed for 155 early on the third day, but the arrival of Timm van der Gugten at the crease kicked off the biggest partnership of the match so far, as he and Mason Crane put on 129 for the eighth wicket. Van der Gugten was run out for 72, but Crane remained and eventually reached his second County Championship century of the season (and his career), finishing unbeaten on 114 after a stand of 98 off 80 balls with Mir Hamza to give Glamorgan a lead of 611. They made early inroads into the Surrey line-up before the close of play, removing Rory Burns and Dom Sibley, but Ryan Patel and Ollie Pope recovered to get them to 177/2, needing 435 runs on the final day for victory.
Pope and Patel combined for 168 runs before Pope was eventually dismissed for 75 by Zain-ul-Hassan, but Dan Lawrence held up an end to see Patel through to a score of 132 before he was removed by Mir Hamza. With four wickets down, Surrey were still 321 short of their target, and the removal of Lawrence and Adam Thomas further worsened their cause. Ben Foakes and Tom Lawes provided some resistance with a partnership of 49, but Lawes was the only one to cause the scorers much bother, reaching 45 before Crane trapped him lbw. The last three wickets fell for just 30 runs, giving Glamorgan a 184-run victory to confirm their place in Division 1 for 2027.
Glamorgan v Essex (24–27 September)
Standings
One-Day Cup
Matches Glamorgan v Sussex (22 July)
Glamorgan v Yorkshire (24 July)
Middlesex v Glamorgan (26 July)