Kent, who also had Zak Crawley withdrawn by England, gave a debut to all-rounder Ekansh Singh, 18, among three changes while Glamorgan welcomed back experienced seamer James Harris after injury. Glamorgan started confidently enough but Zain Ul Hassan, after hitting a couple of sweet off-drives, edged to Tawanda Muyeye at slip for 16 in Kashif...
Labuschagne has hit 10 Championship centuries and 13 fifties in just 30 four-day matches for Glamorgan, after coming to prominence with a starring role in the 2019 campaign ahead of a successful Ashes series. He is best known as a top-order batter, but has also bowled seam, leg-spin and off-spin in county games. Glamorgan will...
Glamorgan were 213 ahead at the start of play and lost night-watchman Andy Gorvin for six, lobbing a catch to short-leg off the ferocious Blair Tickner. Kellaway survived an extraordinary near play-on to Zak Chappell on 19 as he and Cooke defended assiduously to ensure some degree of safety for Glamorgan, who took the first...
Resuming on 336-6, Reece and Thomson extended their eighth-wicket stand to 105 with relatively few alarms and got to within 15 of saving the follow-on. The new ball saw Timm van der Gugten account for Thomson, but Zak Chappell helped Reece past the target of 282 before Gorvin bowled him to claim his fifth wicket....
Resuming on 336-6, it was honours even for the first session as Glamorgan added 95 more runs for the loss of their last four wickets. Colin Ingram fell for 81 in the first over, hooking Blair Tickner straight to fine leg, but a stand of 86 between van der Gugten and Gorvin (39) occupied most...
Tribe, playing his first match of the season in place of Eddie Byrom, drove classically in a perky half-century off 65 balls including 10 fours, as he gave the impetus to the opening stand of 93. Tickner was the tightest of the Derbyshire seamers, bowling to the grassier end of the pitch, but it was...
Glamorgan resumed on 186-5, still 85 runs short of making Middlesex bat again, with the home side in a hurry to wrap the game up given the poor weather forecast for the afternoon. But Middlesex managed just two wickets in the first session despite Roland-Jones striking early on an overcast morning, as Kiran Carlson looked...
After a sedate evening session on day two, Du Plooy and Geddes immediately moved up several gears as Middlesex looked to press on towards a declaration. With both men looking set for three figures, Kellaway removed the pair in quick succession. Glamorgan were rushing to erase an errant over-rate of minus six, and Kellaway out-bowled...
Resuming at 63-0, Middlesex lost Steve Eskinazi for 39, driving Van der Gugten to a diving Ben Kellaway at point as the Dutch international bowled four consecutive maidens and Ned Leonard also started tightly. The attritional cricket continued as Max Holden dug in alongside Nathan Fernandes, who reached a solid and patient 50 off 102...
Ul Hassan led Glamorgan’s solid progress in the first session after being put in, reaching his half century off 82 balls in the final over before lunch with little hint of the difficulties to come. He survived a close lbw shout from Paterson on six, but the veteran South African seamer got his reward for...
Former Wales skipper Lauren Parfitt was named as Glamorgan’s captain for the season but Bethan Gammon will lead the side in the opening match. Glamorgan welcome the arrivals of Erin Vukusic and Poppy Tulloch, who have both joined the club on loan and are named in the 14-strong squad. Tulloch comes to Cardiff from Somerset...
Gloucestershire were left to reflect on a much-improved display from their opening defeat at Derby with an immediate impact from new captain Cameron Bancroft, despite the familiar problem of forcing a win on their home pitch. Meanwhile Glamorgan managed to salvage pride with the bat, largely thanks to South African veteran Ingram, after a dreadful...
In cloudier conditions on the second morning, Glamorgan’s bowlers limited the damage already caused on day one, despite ironic applause when the extras tally passed 50. Van der Gugten (2-67) dismissed nightwatchman Matt Taylor and fizzed one through the defences of Miles Hammond, who had reached an attractive half-century. Gloucestershire reached four batting points with...
A consistent visitors’ batting display, with five players passing 50, saw them to 427 all out in their first innings. At the start of the day Andy Gorvin finally ended the Leicestershire tail-end frolics as he had Ben Cox lbw for 51 with the second ball of the morning, and although the injured Rishi Patel...
Starting on 65-1, the positive pair of Sol Budinger and Ben Mike (41) took their stand to 88 before Fernando struck twice in mid-morning. Fernando, the first player from Sri Lanka to represent the daffodil county, had Mike lbw and induced Budinger to sky a pull. Hill survived a loud shout for caught behind first...