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Peaceful plea from Derrick

Glamorgan coach John Derrick will be hoping tonight's Twenty20 clash with Gloucestershire will not prove to be an acrimonious affair.

Glamorgan coach John Derrick will be hoping tonight's Twenty20 clash with Gloucestershire will not prove to be an acrimonious affair.

While this evening's match will be in doubt because of thunder and lightning and heavy rain, Derrick will be hoping there are no sparks on the field.

It will be the first time Derrick and Glamorgan will face Gloucestershire after the Steve Kirby ball-tampering affair.

Kirby was found guilty of ball tampering during the county championship game at Cardiff last month and was fined £125 and received a three-match ban.

Derrick instigated the inquiry after he spotted Kirby scraping the ball on the car park concrete after retrieving it from a David Hemp six.

The Glamorgan coach was so incensed he went on to the field to tell the umpires what he had seen and subsequently fired off a two-page report to the ECB.

'We have to play Gloucestershire five more times this season and there will be a little bit of bad feeling there,' admitted Derrick.

'But I saw what Steve Kirby did and he knows what he did.'

Derrick watched his Glamorgan side start their Twenty20 victory with a last-ball victory over Somerset on Wednesday evening where 6,000 people watched Mike Powell record an unbeaten 68.

The Glamorgan coach dropped Powell from the struggling championship side last week and is delighted with the way the 28-year-old England A batsmen responded.

Powell is named in an unchanged Glamorgan squad, while Kirby is included in a Gloucestershire line-up which conceded a Twenty20 record of 224 runs in their opening clash against Northants on Wednesday.

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