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As Karen Carpenter might have said (had she been noted for following county cricket), rainy Mays and Mondays always get me down. Thankfully Thursday is on its way, and with it the promise of a weekend with a little sustained sunshine, if not wholly precipitation-free. Not that this is necessarily good news for Worcestershire, for whom the Norse rain god Freyr is currently shaping up to be player of the season, but sooner or later we've got to get back in the swing of playing four days and showing up on each of them. We'll be trying our luck with that this week at Sophia Gardens.

The only side in the division to have drawn all four of their matches so far, Glamorgan remain well-placed to begin a promotion charge if they can get across the line with a win. They were frustrated at Headingley last week after navigating themselves into a dominant position, aided by a daddy hundred from Marnus Labuschagne - his seventh for the county in four summers as their overseas man - and he'll be the man for the Pears to get out quickly if we're to have a chance. An unchanged squad will be travelling to Wales for this one, with Dillon Pennington accompanying them but remaining sidelined by a hamstring injury. With some signs of form from Azhar Ali and Adam Hose on Sunday, here's hoping we don't find ourselves fighting a rearguard action for the third game in a row.


Probable Worcestershire XI: Libby, Pollock, Ali, Haynes, D'Oliveira, Hose, Roderick, Waite, Leach, Tongue, Gibbon