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Gloucestershire win by 10 wickets on Day Three at Glamorgan

8 September 2016

Gloucestershire completed the double over Glamorgan in the Specsavers County Championship with 10.2 overs of the day remaining on day three.

Glamorgan will be disappointed with their batting. For the fourth successive innings the Welsh side have failed to bat for more than 65 overs.

Gloucestershire added a further 16 runs before they were dismissed for 363 in their first innings, a lead of 143 with David Payne(67no) achieving his career best score, and Michael Hogan, after taking the last two wickets, returning creditable figures of 25.1-6-36-5.

Only once in the last 12 innings have Glamorgan’s openers shared a fifty run partnership, and they were again in trouble when Owen Morgan was bowled by Josh Shaw in the sixth over, and he was quickly followed four balls later, when Nick Selman was caught by wicketkeeper Mustard off Payne.

David Lloyd, who has been short of runs recently, failed when he wafted at a ball outside the off stump, but Aneurin Donald, after scoring four, had the distinction of becoming the youngest Glamorgan player to score 1000 runs in a season.

Donald and Bragg put on 45 for the fourth wicket, but Donald became Jack Taylor’s first victim when he edged an arm ball to slip, before Kieran Carlson collected a pair when he became Mustard’s third victim behind the stumps.

Graham Wagg soon made his intentions clear by driving Taylor’s off spin for successive sixes, but the bowler got his revenge when he bowled Wagg for a breezy 21. Apart from Bragg, who scored with 52 that included six boundaries, there was little resistance from Glamorgan’s batsmen until Mark Wallace and stand in captain Hogan put on 58 for the final wicket.

Needing to score 90 to win, Chris Dent and Gareth Roderick made a cautious start before Dent drove Wagg, who had reverted to left arm spin, over long on for six, and Roderick struck Carlson for three runs in his first over. They then hurried along at four runs an over, with Roderick reaching fifty from 56 balls with the captain hitting the winning runs in the twentieth over.

Richard Dawson the Gloucestershire coach said after his team’s 10 wicket win that ”a lot of people contributed to the win, especially David Payne and Hamish Marshall. Payne led the attack in both innings, while his 67 not out enabled us to get 143 run lead on first innings”.

Dawson was also pleased on how they kept putting pressure on the opposition ”we kept it up for three days and after being 35 for three in the first innings, it was a great effort to score 363. After losing the T20 quarter final, it was a great confidence booster to come back and play so well in the last two championship games.”

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