Derbyshire battle back to leave Glamorgan contest wide open
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day three)Glamorgan 431: Ingram 81 & 132-5: Ingram 64, Ul Hassan 48; Tickner 2-19Derbyshire 350 (107 overs): Reece 73*, Thomson 60; Gorvin 5-85Glamorgan (6 pts) lead Derbyshire (5 pts) by 213 runs with five second-innings wickets standingMatch scorecard
Derbyshire bounced back in style against Glamorgan as the home side took a lead of 213 into the final day with five wickets standing.Colin Ingram made 64 and Zain Ul Hassan 48 as Glamorgan recovered from 15-3 to 132-5 to leave the game evenly poised.Luis Reece, batting with a runner because of a hamstring injury, top-scored with a brave 73 not out as Derbyshire avoided the follow-on comfortably to reach 350.Alex Thomson's 60 was a career-best as Derbyshire battled back from 162-7 despite Andy Gorvin's five-wicket haul.
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.Reece passed 5,000 first-class runs for the visitors with a pulled six, before last man Blair Tickner swung wildly to frustrate the struggling Glamorgan attack in a first session extended by 40 minutes. Resilient Derbyshire even managed a third batting point as the last-wicket stand reached 62 before Tickner (28) was bowled by Asitha Fernando.On Star Wars Day, the force was with Derbyshire as they claimed three early wickets, having seen their own last three bat for a further three hours on the third day.The high-stepping paceman Tickner and Anuj Dal swapped ends almost immediately to devastating effect with Asa Tribe, Sam Northeast and Kiran Carlson dismissed in successive overs.But Ingram's calmness and the nuggety approach of Ul Hassan saw them put together a patient partnership of 109.Ingram struck seven fours and lofted Thomson for six but was bowled sweeping at the next ball as the tall off-spinner started to extract turn.Eight runs later, Chappell got one to lift on Ul Hassan to have him caught behind, and Derbyshire were back in the hunt as they delivered six maidens in a row to end the day.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
BBC News
5 hours ago
- BBC News
Essex T20 form 'not good enough'
Essex need to start putting some pride into their T20 Blast performances, says captain Simon six-wicket hammering by Middlesex was their fourth successive loss at the start of the campaign and leaves them bottom of the South Group."We need to find ways to win games of cricket and if we're brutally honest we haven't been good enough," said Harmer after the defeat at Chelmsford."Coming off the back of the four-day stuff into the T20s we were probably a bit rusty in the first couple of games but for the last two there are no excuses."Essex opened their campaign with a 106-run loss to Hampshire before eight-wicket and six-wicket defeats by Somerset and Glamorgan respectively."We need to be better in all departments - as a team and an individual you need to find ways to change the momentum and you do that by winning games of cricket, by scoring a hundred, taking wickets," said Harmer."I truly believe we're a lot better than what we're displaying - we could have been smarter how we went about our business (against Middlesex) and we need to start putting up our hands and putting some pride into our performances and into the badge."Essex are next in action at home to Glamorgan on Thursday before a trip to Sussex 24 hours later.
BBC News
8 hours ago
- BBC News
Hasan puts Bears hat-trick down to healthy habits
Birmingham Bears bowler Hasan Ali believes personal discipline is behind his record-breaking start to the T20 Blast Pakistan paceman became the first Bears bowler to take a T20 hat-trick and recorded the club's best figures of 6-23 in the format to help crush Derbyshire by 58 runs on missed the Bears' opening two defeats - to Nottinghamshire and Durham -but returned in Friday's win over Yorkshire, just two days after arriving in England from international duty with Pakistan."I've played two months of cricket," he told BBC Radio WM. "First I played international T20, then with the PSL [Pakistan Super League], then national team, and then I just arrived 4 June and played two back-to-back games."As a professional if you're eating well and sleeping well and drinking well, you're fresh and ready to go. As a professional we have to adapt and be very disciplined and take care of our bodies really well." Against the Falcons at Edgbaston, Hasan removed both David Lloyd and Martin Andersson in the space of four balls in his first back to bowl the 17th over, he had Ross Whiteley caught by George Garton for 50 before the same combination removed Alex Thomson for a first-ball duck. It left Ben Aitchison to face the hat-trick ball."When I got two wickets I spoke with Tom Latham and we were making plans for the next ball," Hasan said."He (Aitchison) was standing on the leg side and I said I should go for the yorker and it succeeded and I got my first hat-trick in T20."With the first ball of his fourth over, Hasan bowled Pat Brown for his fourth wicket in five balls to bowl out Derbyshire for 30-year-old, in his third season at Edgbaston, hopes to take the Bears to finals day after topping the North Group for the last three seasons but falling at the quarter-final stage each time."Bears have been playing fantastic cricket in the Blast over the years and there's a small part we have to do to get past the quarter-finals and we're looking for that this year," he added. Ali goes up against Ravi Bopara - his head coach at PSL side Karachi Kings - on Wednesday when the Bears head to North Group leaders Northants Steelbacks before a trip to Headingley two days later.
BBC News
a day ago
- BBC News
Walker shines as Glam beat Sussex in Women's T20
Vitality Blast Women League 2 South GroupGlamorgan 133-8 (20 overs): Jeanes 42, Gammon 42; O'Neill 2-19, Buckle 2-19Sussex Sharks 128-9 (20 overs): Norgrove 42; Walker 4-32, Porter 2-12, Burke 2-30Glamorgan (4 pts) won by 5 runsMatch scorecard Teenage spinner Poppy Walker took four wickets as Glamorgan held on to beat Sussex by five runs and claim their first win in the Vitality Blast Women League 2 South 134, Sussex looked well on course when England Under-19s captain Abi Norgrove hit 42 off 32 Glamorgan kept taking wickets and confirmed their victory off the last 133-8 owed much to opener Daisy Jeanes and the experienced Bethan Gammon, who made 42 stand of 58 gave Glamorgan much-needed momentum after Anna Buckle took two wickets in the eighth runs came off just 32 balls, hitting eight boundaries, but both she and Jeanes fell to 17-year-old Eve O' got Sussex flying before she was caught off the glove off Walker's bowling, wicket-keeper Georgia Parfitt adding to her two smart were ahead of the rate at half-way, but no-one else could restore Sussex's fortunes as Walker, also 17, kept her nerve under fire as she turned the ball both Porter took 2-12 in her four overs as Glamorgan strengthened their position in the closing was a fine comeback from Glamorgan after losing their opening match at Middlesex, before they host Middlesex at Colwyn Bay on Sunday, 15 who have one from three, host Kent on Sunday, 22 June.
