The 2020 season was Glamorgan County Cricket Club's 133rd year in existence and their 100th as a first-class cricket county. They played all of their home matches at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no cricket was played until the first week of August, and the County Championship was replaced for the 2020 season by the Bob Willis Trophy, a shortened form of the first-class game intended to reduce impact on bowlers who had been unable to train for the first few months of the summer; the 18 counties were placed into three roughly geographical groups of six teams each, and played one game against each of the other counties in their group either home or away. At the end of this stage, the two teams from across the three groups with the most points from their five matches faced each other in the final at Lord's. Glamorgan finished bottom of the Central Group, failing to win any of their five matches. Although the One-Day Cup was cancelled, there was still some white-ball cricket to be played in the form of the T20 Blast, which maintained its usual format: three regional groups of six teams each, with games against each of the other counties in the group, both home and away. Only Worcestershire Royals finished below Glamorgan, who won just four of their ten matches.
The team was led by Matthew Maynard in his first year back as full-time head coach, having served in an interim capacity for the 2019 season after the departure of Robert Croft, before signing a three-year contract in November 2019. Wicketkeeper-batsman Chris Cooke retained the captaincy in the County Championship and took over from Colin Ingram in the T20 Blast, as Ingram was due to play in The Hundred for Welsh Fire; ultimately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ingram was unable to travel to the UK from South Africa due to travel restrictions. Australian batter Marnus Labuschagne was also unable to return as Glamorgan's overseas player for the 2020 season, again due to travel restrictions, although he did sign a new contract with the club, committing to an extra year. Glamorgan signed Ireland captain Andrew Balbirnie as their overseas player for the T20 Blast. All-rounder Craig Meschede was forced to retire in June 2020 due to thoracic outlet syndrome in his upper right arm.
Bob Willis Trophy Central Group
Somerset v Glamorgan (1–4 August)
Worcestershire v Glamorgan (8–11 August)
Glamorgan v Gloucestershire (15–18 August)
Northamptonshire v Glamorgan (22–25 August)
Glamorgan v Warwickshire (6–9 September)
T20 Blast Standings
Advance to quarter-finals
Matches Glamorgan v Worcestershire Rapids (27 August)
Gloucestershire v Glamorgan (29 August)
Glamorgan v Birmingham Bears (30 August)
Somerset v Glamorgan (1 September)
Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Glamorgan (3 September)
Birmingham Bears v Glamorgan (11 September)
Glamorgan v Northamptonshire Steelbacks (13 September)
Glamorgan v Somerset (16 September)
Glamorgan v Gloucestershire (18 September)
Worcestershire Rapids v Glamorgan (20 September)
Statistics Batting + First-classPlayerMatchesInningsRunsChris Cooke51012948232.6648.19032370Billy Root510128611831.7740.45110391Nick Selman51002157321.5035.53022270Dan Douthwaite51011608617.7752.45012194Callum Taylor24015310638.2567.10101196Marchant de Lange35113111332.75121.29101810Kiran Carlson4801097913.6236.57011140Graham Wagg3611005420.0050.00011130Timm van der Gugten4739830*24.5040.66000140Tom Cullen360802613.3352.28000140Source: Cricinfo
+ Twenty20PlayerMatchesInningsRunsAndrew Balbirnie99225599*36.42144.88020257Chris Cooke9922217231.57123.46021129Nick Selman6601767829.33123.94010204David Lloyd5501605632.00139.13010155Callum Taylor771762312.6684.4400061Dan Douthwaite6627523*18.75178.5700166Marchant de Lange7626828*17.00128.3000072Timm van der Gugten8424934*24.50140.0000032Andrew Salter953451422.50115.3800132Owen Morgan430442414.66112.8200042Source: Cricinfo
Bowling + First-classPlayerMatchesInningsOversMaidensRunsWicketsDan Douthwaite59121.116473143/425/10333.783.9051.9200Timm van der Gugten47119.031362123/455/11530.163.0459.5000Graham Wagg3573.014272113/385/13924.723.7239.8100Marchant de Lange3581.21721894/844/11524.222.6854.2200Kieran Bull47102.3446293/1124/22151.334.5068.3300Michael Hogan48139.03239783/593/9049.622.85104.2500Ruaidhri Smith1114.044133/413/4113.662.9228.0000Lukas Carey1224.548233/543/8227.333.3049.6600Callum Taylor2326.028121/201/2040.503.1178.0000Owen Morgan1111.504311/431/4343.003.6371.0000Source: Cricinfo
+ Twenty20PlayerMatchesInningsOversMaidensRunsWicketsTimm van der Gugten8828.00209143/1714.927.4612.0000Prem Sisodiya9936.01232103/2623.206.4421.6000Andrew Salter9936.00293104/2029.308.1321.6010Marchant de Lange7721.4016852/2333.607.7526.0000Ruaidhri Smith6622.0017852/1335.608.0926.4000Callum Taylor725.003832/912.667.6010.0000Graham Wagg6516.0014333/3447.668.9332.0000Dan Douthwaite637.006411/2964.009.1442.0000Source: Cricinfo
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