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BBC News
13-04-2025
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Akhter burst gives Glos victory chance despite Ingram ton for Glam
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol (day three)Gloucestershire 546: Bancroft 163, O Price 101, Hammond 54; Leonard 3-122Glamorgan 385 (107.5 overs): Ingram 103, Cooke 56, Northeast 50; Akhter 5-85, Singh Dale 3-61 & 106-0 (following on): Ul Hassan 51*Glamorgan (5 pts) trail Gloucestershire (7 pts) by 55 runs with all 10 second-innings wickets standingMatch scorecard Zaman Akhter and Ajeet Singh Dale bowled Gloucestershire into a strong position as they enforced the follow-on against visitors go into the final day on 106-0, still 55 runs adrift, after resistance from Zain Ul Hassan and Eddie Ingram's classy century and 56 from Chris Cooke gave Glamorgan hope of avoiding the England Lions pacemen Akhter (5-85) and Singh Dale (3-61) turned in hostile spells to run through the lower order. Starting the day still 400 runs adrift, Glamorgan had to weather a hostile opening burst from the home seamers with the weather at its most was Singh Dale who made the breakthrough as Kiran Carlson edged to a diving Cameron Bancroft at second slip for 22 in a stand of pattern of batters getting in, then getting out, continued as Ben Kellaway had his off stump knocked back for 21 by a fine yorker from Zaman the experienced pair of Ingram and Cooke, Glamorgan's last hopes for major scores, settled in as the sun came out, with Ingram reaching a patient 50 by belting Ollie Price over long-on for important second new ball came at 270-5 early in the afternoon but Ingram moved on to a composed century in a stand of 129 before Gloucestershire's quicker change bowlers struck in devastating fashion. Cooke was bowled by a fine delivery from Akhter, and five balls later Singh Dale produced a snorter to rattle Ingram's stumps after a high-class innings and van der Gugten edged an attempted drive to Akhter at Leonard and Shoaib Bashir battled bravely but Akhter bowled both Leonard and Asitha Fernando, the number eleven playing some wild swings before Akhter struck the stumps for the fourth time, the ball after plugging the Sri Lankan on the weary seamers charged in gamely in the evening sunshine as Ul Hassan (51*) and Byrom (47*) played out the last two hours in the evening sunshine without too many alarms, leaving the home side with plenty of work to do to force victory on the final day.
BBC News
07-04-2025
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Thomas 'over the moon' with Leicestershire squad depth
Leicestershire head coach Alfonso Thomas has praised his squad's strength in depth after a convincing opening week County Championship victory against Foxes lost opening batter Rishi Patel to a thumb injury in the third over of the match in Cardiff, with main strike bowler Chris Wright also set to miss the second game of the season against was limited to just 9.5 overs in Glamorgan's second innings but they still went on to win by 10 wickets, in a result Thomas described as "really satisfying"."There's depth, there's competition for places," the former Somerset and Hampshire bowler told BBC Radio Leicester."We know that to be able to be competitive over a County Championship season, you will need 16 or 17 guys to put their hands up."We lost our opening batter in the third over, on the first day of the first day of the season, which is not ideal."I had three or four guys put their hand up to open, and to bat number three. As a whole, I'm over the moon with it, it was a fantastic squad effort." The Foxes are set to be without pace bowler Wright against Derbyshire next week, and England test international Josh Hull is unlikely to feature, having been injured in international all-rounder Logan van Beek has landed in the UK, Thomas said, and is set to make his debut at Grace Road on Friday."We've got a cartel of bowlers that will make us competitive", Thomas added."We are taking the more conservative approach with Josh Hull, because he's so important for us in all formats. "We have one eye on the T20s. I don't want to rush him back too soon."Australia international and club captain Peter Handscomb praised the team's ability to "stick to their processes and plans".Leicestershire took the fewest wickets in Division Two last year, drawing 10 of 14 matches."We're trying to fit 13 or 14 blokes into 11, there's going to be some tough calls, but the pleasing thing is we have guys ready and waiting to stand up when they get an opportunity," he said."If we're going to have a good season, it's going to take a whole squad."We'll try not to look far ahead, it's one game of a 14-game season. It's a great way to start but there's a lot of cricket to be played."
