342/4.Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Another 7 runs and it will be glamorgan's highest ever 5th wicket partnership (which also involved Carlson)
Update. 349/4 308 run partnership Glamorgan's best ever for the 5th wicket
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342/4.
Another 7 runs and it will be glamorgan's highest ever 5th wicket partnership (which also involved Carlson)
Update. 349/4 308 run partnership Glamorgan's best ever for the 5th wicket
Unbelievable partnership earlier. This Harris innings looks like it could be vital. Moving towards a good lead now, where it did look like we might waste the efforts of Carlson and Ingram and crumble.
Looks like the first 10/15 overs with new ball are vital. All our wickets have fallen with the new ball, but it looked very placid in between
Looks like the weather’s going to be the winner over the next two days and, having been rescued by the rain twice already, Glamorgan can’t really complain if it is. Even if the rain holds off today and Monday, you have to wonder if the wicket will flatten out like it usually does at Cardiff. Glamorgan’s seam bowling attack in this match looks as weak as it has done in years and it’s a surprise that they were able to roll Sussex over so cheaply in the first innings - maybe Hamza and Harris can do the business again, but the odds are that both of them will spend much of the next two days in the pavilion watching the rain come down.
Tomorrow looks like a write off, we need to bowl them out today. Hard to see that with this attack but if there is a bit of humidity in the air Hamza and Harris might be able to get into them. Id be quietly confident if tim was fit but although Zain and gorvin did well in the first innings its hard to see them running though anybody.
It does have that humid feel to it today and maybe the ball’s doing a bit - Sussex 32-3, all three wickets to Hamza.
32-4, Pujara out to Gorvin’s first ball.
32-5, John Simpson, who used to score stacks against us for Middlesex, bags a pair.
seems the Welsh weather is going to screw things up for Glammy after a hopeful start.
56 runs to win less than 2 hours later, funny old game
Hell of a performance. Wonder if Marnus will have to sit on the bench for his first game or 2 back. Hard to drop Ingram after his season, and Hamza has been good this match.
Didn't think gorvin had a 5 for in him, very nice to see
Hurray, a win 🙂
Wow. 7.5 overs is all it took. Real statement victory. At 41/4 yesterday we were really wobbling. Then when wickets fell quickly after Ingram and Carlson it looked like we might blow our advantage.
But to then put together a couple of good partnerships, followed up by a crushing bowling performance is utterly fantastic. Well done boys! Credit to the groundstaff aswell, for getting a bit of life out of that pitch. Crickets a much better game when the bowlers have something
Great win. A rare event over recent seasons. Taking 20wkts in 3 days on a Sophia Gardens pitch is a positive by itself. Was the Kookaburra ball used?
No, the Kookaburra was only used for the first two rounds of games and I hope that’s the last we see of it - the ECB’s marketing men seem determined to kill off the county championship and using that ball all of the time would be a big step in that direction,
Another question is if you can get a pitch like that at Sophia Gardens, why have so many in recent years been so bland as to make any result other than a draw impossible? Gorvin’s first ball yesterday bounced much more than it should have done to dismiss Pujara and I wonder if they’re still mindful of that one day game with Hampshire a few years ago that was abandoned because of an unfit pitch?
A really good win though against a team that had made a great start to the season, still not sure about the bowling attack we went into the game with mind - have Dowthwaite and McIlroy been dropped?
great win and a big confidence boost, well done Glammy!
Mcillroys been struggling with injuries, not sure about douthwaite. Seems to follow a well worn pattern that douthwaite plays the first few games of a season, then gets moved aside after a few games.
I wonder if some of the pitch woes are related to the amount of cricket that needs to be played on them. With all glamorgans games, Welsh fire men and women. Plus a couple of pitches that are probably set aside for the international games. It may well be that the only way to get them through the season is to make sure a few are complete roads. Degrading during the game to help the bowlers is great, but I suppose if you then can't get it regenerated during days off you end up with a big problem.
Hopefully the pitch we've just played on is a sign of things to come and means they've worked out what they can get away with on those pitches a bit better. I do wonder if we've just had a very good box of balls here mind which played a part aswell, good proud seam or something. The amount of wickets that fell with the new ball throughout the game was unbelievable
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