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Live: Glamorgan v Yorkshire, Rothesay CC, Day One
The start of the 2026 summer is upon us, and Yorkshire are kicking things off today in Cardiff, where Glamorgan are the opponents for a Rothesay County Championship fixture. Follow this page for updates through the day.
Starts elsewhere
It looks like there is a start planned at all the other grounds aside from here and at Southampton, where Essex are visiting Hampshire.
In Division One, Somerset face Nottinghamshire at Taunton, Warwickshire are hosting Surrey at Edgbaston and Sussex are at Leicestershire (Grace Road).
Welcome, Sam!
Picture by John Heald.
Welcome Logan!
Picture by John Heald.
Delayed start at Sophia Gardens
The message has just popped up on the scoreboards here.
The good news is, however, that it has stopped raining.
Good luck, Jonny!
Before we go any further, now is as good a time as any to wish captain Jonny Bairstow all the best for the new season. He will lead the silverware pursuit in both the Rothesay County Championship and Vitality Blast this summer.
Happy new season, folks!
Good morning, first of all. Welcome back to our live coverage of Yorkshire’s first-team matches throughout the 2026 season.
There is some early bad news, though. It’s raining in Cardiff and the covers are on, right across the square, with a significant amount of water on top. We can almost certainly say there will be a delayed start at 11am.
When we do get going….
Yorkshire open the summer at Sophia Gardens against newly-promoted Glamorgan, who are back in Division One for the first time since 2005 having come up last year behind second-tier champions Leicestershire.
They have a coach who is familiar to Yorkshire supporters in Richard Dawson and new captain in top-order batter Kiran Carlson. He has replaced Sam Northeast, who returned to Kent over the winter.
Anthony McGrath has named a 14-man squad for this clash, with Logan van Beek and Sam Whiteman in line for debuts. Jhye Richardson is a little bit behind them in terms of preparation. Fingers crossed, he’s ready to debut at Headingley against Hampshire this time next week.
That squad is as follows: Bairstow c/w, Bean, Bess, Cliff, Coad, Hill, Luxton, Lyth, Moriarty, Revis, van Beek, Wharton, White, Whiteman.
Over the last couple of days, we have published a couple of articles on site in preview to this fixture.
One is the Match Previewwith Matthew Revis.
The other is a bygones piece with Gavin Hamilton from 1998 when he starred for Yorkshire against Glamorgan at Cardiff.
As ever, there will be a live stream once play gets underway here in South Wales. That is available at the top of the page.
