Glamorgan ease to victory against Gloucestershire
Glamorgan were victorious in a match of the County Championship Division Two against Gloucestershire, at the Sophia Gardens, Cardiff in England. The hosts won the match convincingly by a margin of 189 runs. The scores in the match were, Glamorgan 202 and
370 for nine (declared), Gloucestershire 188 and 195.
The host team’s captain, Alviro Petersen, elected to bat first after winning the toss. There wasn’t any grass on the pitch, but it had assistance for both batsmen and the bowlers.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Wagg-c1506.
The pair amassed 138 runs for the seventh wicket, guising their first innings total above 200. Wright was dismissed after scoring an aggressive 83 runs off 98 balls, smashing 14 fours in his innings. Wagg also played attacking cricket, managing 58 runs from
70 balls with the help of 10 fours.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-Saxelby-c1572 was the star for the visitors, as he claimed a five-wicket haul in the first innings. He got good support from Jon Lewis, who took three top-order wickets of the host team.
Gloucestershire had a very good opportunity to score big in their first innings and pressurise the home team. However, things didn’t work out exactly as the visitors wanted. They lost seven batsmen for just 94 runs and it appeared that they might be bowled
out within 100.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jon-Lewis-c1726 and Vikram Banerjee came to the rescue of their team, scoring 77 runs for the eighth wicket. They scored 56 and 25 runs respectively, before getting out.
James Harris was in devastating form for Glamorgan, as he dismissed five batsmen of the visitors, restricting them below 200. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Shantry-c924 also bowled well for his three wickets in the innings.
Glamorgan’s second innings was trouble-free, as their batsmen managed to score a decent total. Opening batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gareth-Rees-c1461 gave a solid start to the team, scoring 68 runs off 89 balls with the help of 10 fours and a six.
Middle-order batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mark-Wallace-c1913 scored 37
runs whereas Petersen and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/William-Bragg-c2795 scored 36 each, giving Gloucestershire a target of 385.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Will-Gidman-c2793 was the pick of the bowlers for his team in the second innings, taking three wickets.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-Cockbain-c63787 and Richard Coughtrie put together 62 runs. They got out after scoring 47 and 23 runs respectively.
First-drop http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chris-Taylor-c1253 batted brilliantly for his 83 runs off 165 balls, but he didn’t get much support from the lower-order batsmen and the visitors were all-out for 195.
Harris and Shantry caused problems for the batsmen again, taking three wickets apiece.
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