May 24, 25 v Surrey 2nd XI at The Oval – Won by 4 wickets
June 8, 9 v Cheshire at Aigburgh – Lost by an innings and 112 runs
June 24, 25 v Monmouthshire at Welfare Ground, Ebbw Vale – Match Drawn
June 30, July 1 v Cheshire at St. Helen’s, Swansea – Match Drawn
July 8, 9 v Monmouthshire at Ynysmaerdy Ground, Briton Ferry – Won by an innings and 109 runs
July 14, 15 v JHP Brain`s XI at Cardiff Arms Park – Won by 104 runs
July 26, 27 v Carmarthenshire at Stradey Park, Llanelli – Match Drawn
July 28, 29 v Devon at The Gnoll, Neath – Won by 37 runs
July 30, 31 v Wiltshire at Cardiff Arms Park – Won by 8 wickets
Aug 2, 3 v Surrey 2nd XI at Cardiff Arms Park – Won by an innings and 16 runs
Aug 6, 7 v Wiltshire at Marlborough College – Match Drawn
Aug 9, 10 v Devon at Plymouth – Lost by 8 wickets
Aug 24, 25 v Carmarthenshire at St. Helen’s, Swansea – Won by 10 wickets
Aug 26, 27 v MCC at St. Helen’s, Swansea – Won by 10 wickets
As county cricket resumed in 1920, Glamorgan’s officials were determined that the dream of achieving first-class status would not fall by the wayside. The torchbearer of the post-war campaign was Tal Whittington who combined his duties as a solicitor in Neath by acting as Glamorgan’s Honorary Secretary.
A fund-raising campaign began and to everyone’s delight, a substantive offer came from Sir Sidney Byass, the owner of Margam Steelworks who agreed to loan Glamorgan £1,000 over a ten-year period. There were no strings attached to Sir Sidney’s benevolence, so with his generous nest egg safely stowed away in the Club’s coffers, the Glamorgan committee instructed Whittington to make contact with at least eight existing first-class counties for home and away fixtures for 1921.
As answers in the affirmative came in, the Welsh county took the opportunity of blooding a number of new faces during 1920 as opportunities were given to a number of amateurs and professionals who the selectors believed might assist the Club in their endeavours as a first-class county. The season began with a four-wicket victory over Surrey 2nd XI at The Oval, before the Welsh county completed the double over the South London club in early August with an innings victory at the Arms Park. An eight-wicket defeat then followed away to Devon but the 1920 season ended in emphatic style with ten-wicket victories at Swansea over both Carmarthenshire and the MCC.
By this time, the mood was buoyant in the Glamorgan camp as Somerset, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Sussex had all agreed to games the following summer. During the Autumn, Lancashire and Hampshire also accepted Glamorgan’s offer, allowing Whittington to finish the paperwork required by the MCC well ahead of the meeting at Lord’s on Friday, 18th February 1921 of their Advisory County Cricket group at which the Welsh county’s application for first-class status was approved.