Glamorgan County Cricket Club started their 2005 season as defending totesport League champions, but the 2005 season ended without a trophy – instead, they suffered relegation in the first-class form. They played their first-class cricket in the First Division of the County Championship. They started the Championship season at 25–1 to win, and favourites to be relegated – which they eventually were, winning one of sixteen games in the Championship season to finish bottom – nearly 100 points behind the first team to avoid relegation. By the end of August, they had confirmed relegation with three games remaining. In the National League, they hovered around mid-table for most of the season, before a run of three unbeaten games at the end of August sent them out of the relegation zone, and they finished the season in fourth place. In the C&G Trophy, they were knocked out at the second round stage by eventual champions Hampshire, while the Twenty20 campaign saw them finish bottom of their group with two wins from eight matches. Glamorgan played 17 first class games in 2005, winning one, drawing two and losing 14. Their 18 List A matches gave seven wins, seven losses and four no-results, while eight Twenty20 matches ended with two wins, five losses and one no-result. Squad Robert Croft (captain) Matthew Elliott Michael Kasprowicz Sourav Ganguly Dan Cherry Dean Cosker Adrian Dale Andrew Davies Richard Grant Adam Harrison David Harrison David Hemp Jonathan Hughes Simon Jones Matthew Maynard Michael O'Shea Mike Powell Gareth Rees Adrian Shaw Darren Thomas Ian Thomas Mark Wallace Ryan Watkins Alex Wharf Ben Wright Tables County Championship totesport League Twenty20 Group Stage (Midlands/Wales/West) Match details April Their first three-day game of the season was batting practice against the students of Cardiff UCCE, where Glamorgan made 994 runs for the loss of thirteen wickets in a drawn game. They then moved on to an away Championship match with defending county champions Warwickshire, which they lost by an innings and 43 runs. After that, their first two totesport League games were washed out by rain and abandoned as no results. The next Championship game was also lost, against Surrey, as Glamorgan ended the month without victories in any form of cricket. MCC University Match: Glamorgan v Cardiff UCCE (9–11 April) Match drawn On the first day of this match at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, Glamorgan scored runs at nearly six an over