Leicestershire vs Glamorgan, Royal London One-Day Cup, Today Match Prediction 05 August 2021

leic vs glam Match Prediction & Analysis

Royal London One-Day Cup is quickly approaching the business end with teams doing their best to find the right balance and momentum going ahead. Glamorgan are currently sitting at the top of the table are the very closely followed with just 3 points separating them with the 6th ranked team. Leicestershire`s season went down the spiral after an inspiring first match win as they lost 3 matches on a trot. A loss in this match might literally push them to the elimination and they need to keep their qualification hopes alive.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Leicestershire Preview

Leicestershire were bowled out for just 144 runs in the last game. Ben Mike (35 runs) and Ahmed (34* runs) shared a 70-run partnership for the 8th wicket to lift their team from 68/7 to 138/8. Rishi Patel, Marcus Harris, and Lewis Hill have scored a century and a half-century in this season so far.

Bowling has been their biggest worry as they are leaking runs consistently in all matches. Ben Mike, Rehan Ahmed, and Edward Barnes picked up a wicket each in the last match but the opposition chased the target in just 20.2 overs. .

Top players to bet on:

Rishi Patel – Rishi Patel has 220 runs in this season with a century and half-century to his name. He must look to continue his good form in the No.3 position to help his team win this match.

Edward Barnes – Barnes has been not in best of form ith the ball so far. He had a pretty decent outing in the last match with figures of 4-0-19-1 & crucial 35 runs in the lower order. He will be highly confident after this performance and will look to contribute more.

Leicestershire Predicted Playing XI:

Rishi Patel, George Rhodes, Marcus Harris, Lewis Hill (c), Arron Lilley, Harry Swindells (wk), Louis Kimber, Ben Mike, Rehan Ahmed, Edward Barnes, Chris Wright

Glamorgan Preview

Glamorgan chased down a small total of 133 runs in just 26.5 overs with 5 wickets remaining. Hamish Rutherford (58 runs) and Steven Reingold (40 runs) shared an 86-run partnership for second wicket which almost sealed the chase. But after a 2-3 quick late wickets they strolled across the chase line.

Glamorgan bowlers never gave any breathing space as all 7 bowlers picked up at least a wicket and gave runs at less than 4 RPO. Adam Salter picked up 3 wickets while Joe Cooke and Lukas Carey chipped in with 2 wickets each. Michael Hogan, Andy Gorvin and Steven rein gold chipped in with a wicket each.

Top players to bet on:

Hamish Rutherford – Rutherford registered his second fifty of the season to help his team win the match. He looked very comfortable in the crease for his 52-ball 58 runs in the last game.

Michael Hogan – Hogan picked up wicket in his first ball and set the tone of the match and had amazing figures of 10-3-18-1. He has been giving runs at less than 4 RPO and claimed 10 wickets in this season so far.

Glamorgan Predicted Playing XI:

Hamish Rutherford, Nicholas Selman, Steven Reingold, Kiran Carlson (c), Billy Root, Tom Cullen (wk), Joe Cooke, Lukas Carey, Michael Hogan, Andy Gorvin, Andrew Salter

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Leicester has a rainy weather update for the match day and we expect intermittent showers to make stoppages of play in this match.

Venue Details

Leicester has been a high scoring venue with 270+ scores in all 4 innings played here this season. Bowlers need to be very precise with their execution of plans. 

Toss: To Bowl

Chasing teams won both the matches played here and teams chased 320+ runs in the last match played here. Both captains will bowl first of they win the toss.