Glamorgan players and officials are looking forward to visiting Pembrokeshire on Bank Holiday Monday, May 28, when Glamorgan play Surrey in the Friends Provident Trophy. For one Glamorgan player in particular it will be a day to savour - if he can get into the team! Former Cresselly cricketer Dan Cherry has cemented a place in the Glamorgan team as an opening batsman in championship cricket, but as yet he is not an automatic selection for the one-day side. Speaking to Observer Sport recently, he said: "This year I would like to have a full season playing every championship game and hopefully to score one thousand runs. In the one day form of the game I would like to cement a position in the side. "At present I have under-achieved in one day cricket and I would like to learn a bit more and score a few more runs there." On being questioned if he would open the batting or bat in the lower middle order, he replied: "The pinch hitters are used at the start of the innings and the club sees my style more as running the ball around, running hard between the wickets and keeping the score board ticking by finding the gaps. "I need to get a little bit better at that. It is a difficult place to bat and it takes a bit of experience to learn how to pace your innings and to finish things off." Glamorgan have signed overseas stars Jimmy Maher and Matthew Elliott, both former Test cricketers this season. Asked how the signing of Elliott and then Maher would have on his position as an opening bat, Dan Cherry said: "I think that things should work out OK. Matthew is here for the first six weeks of the season and then Jimmy will replace him. Obviously there will be another opening spot available and my aim is to make that spot my own. "Playing alongside Jimmy and Matthew will help my game. The aura that they take on to the field means that the opposition attacks do not like bowling at them. Hopefully that will work in my favour and I can accumulate runs at the other end." Turning attention to the Glamorgan game at Cresselly, Dan Cherry admitted that it would be a very special occasion. "It will be truly amazing," he said. "I've just got to get myself in the team. That will be the hard bit, but if I play it will be one of the biggest days of my cricketing life to be able to play in front of my home crowd for Glamorgan. "I'm not worried too much about that at the minute. If I can get in to the team, great, if not perhaps I can get into the squad as 12th man to be part of the atmosphere at Cresselly! "If the weather is right it should be a cracking day. It will be an absolutely fantastic day and it is a superb coup for Pembrokeshire cricket. "Obviously we cannot do anything about the weather, but if the weather is good there will be a superb crowd there. The facilities will be up to scratch and it will be an excellent game of cricket. "With Surrey being the bigwigs of county cricket coming down, it makes it even more special." On being asked what the Surrey players are likely to think of playing at Cresselly and travelling the extra hundred miles or so from Cardiff, Dan Cherry said: "I can't imagine that they will be too pleased with it. They like things to go all their own way. They are quite pampered up there. From a Glamorgan aspect we have to take any advantage that we can. Bringing the game to Cresselly will give us an extra bit of home advantage. There will be a big crowd down there and hopefully they can get behind us and put Surrey on the back foot." Dan Cherry already possesses a university degree, but he is looking at life beyond cricket by studying a criminology course at Cardiff University. Speaking about the course, he said: "It has been really great this winter and has given me another focus. I really enjoy it, although it is hard work fitting it in with all of the cricket. The course is finishing soon and after some exams in May I will have the summer to concentrate on cricket and then it will be back to studies for the winter." What job prospects are available to budding criminologists? He replied: "I've looked at a few possibilities, for instance as a civilian with the police doing criminal analysis or in the prison service or the probation service. "Hopefully my cricket will keep me going for a few years yet and that could be the life for the next 10 years if my game improves and I remain injury free. "To date I've not had any work experience in criminology and the interest has developed from my own reading and research. I have a couple of contacts within the police service and when the course ends next winter I would like to do some criminal analysis work, possibly with the police in Carmarthen. I've had some offers to spend a few days there, so it will be interesting to see what happens." What do the students think about a well-known sportsman being in the same group? Laughing, Dan replied: "I don't think too many of them know that I'm a cricketer. The majority of the students are women so prefer their rugby boys to cricketers. I just stay quiet and get on with my studies!" A modest, self-effacing young man, Dan Cherry works hard at his game and his high concentration levels were shown when he converted his maiden first class century into a double century against Middlesex at Southgate in the 2005 season. With any luck, 2007 could be a year to remember for this modest left-handed opening batsman and all Pembrokeshire cricketers will be hoping that he succeeds and will be watching his run scoring with interest - especially if it is at Cresselly when Glamorgan play Surrey. Admission tickets for the big match are priced at £15 for adults and £8 for juniors who are 16 or under on April 1, 2007. Wickets will be pitched at 10.45 am in this 50 overs per side match and spectators are urged to arrive at the ground early to avoid traffic congestion.