Glamorgan @ Cardiff 3/6/21 to 6/6/21

[Admin]

150-9 at the close

[man in the stand]

Evens I'd say. Wicket looks ok on the camera butI presume an inspector will call..

[Admin]

Nineteen wickets fell on an incident-packed opening day against Glamorgan at Cardiff with the hosts on 150-9 at the close after bowling Lancashire out for 173.

Chris Cooke won the toss and put Lancashire in to bat on a wicket that offered assistance to the bowlers throughout with some variable bounce.

But after being dismissed by tea, Lancashire fought back, taking nine wickets during the evening session including five wickets in 11 overs after Glamorgan had made a bright start.

Openers David Lloyd and Joe Cooke raced away with 35 runs from the first six overs in their reply.

Saqib Mahmood stemmed the flow of runs when he nipped a delivery back into Lloyd’s stumps with the batsman offering no shot after making 21 off 20 balls but Cooke and Marnus Labuschagne had advanced the innings to 74-1 to put the hosts seemingly on top, just 99 runs behind.



Labuschagne, surprisingly struggling for runs this season with just 44 from six innings, survived some close calls off Luke Wood in particular before he started to prosper by striking four boundaries in fairly quick succession. But he was nearly run out on 32 when Kiran Carlson called for a quick single that saw his partner well short of his ground and relived the throw at the stumps just missed.

But it was a short-lived reprieve.

Carlson was at the crease because Tom Bailey had struck with two wickets in two balls, darting one in to bowl Joe Cooke for 14 and trapping Billy Root lbw first ball.

And Bailey soon claimed his third when trapping Carlson lbw for 12 to leave Glamorgan 92-4.



A great piece of fielding by Josh Bohannon, who took a sensational catch low down to his left at backward point, was responsible for a stunned Glamorgan skipper Chris Cooke departing for a duck off the bowling of Danny Lamb.

Then Lamb struck with arguably the biggest wicket when he trapped Labuschagne lbw for 44.

It meant Glamorgan at 102-6 had lost five wickets for 28 runs in 11 overs to put the game back in the balance.

And Dan Douthwaite added to the hosts’ woes when he pulled Mahmood to Wood at deep square leg to depart for 18 and was followed by James Weighell who edged Wood down the leg side to Vilas for 13 and Andrew Salter, lbw to Mahmood for 0.



In all the hosts had lost eight wickets for 71 runs with Mahmood taking 3-34 and Bailey 3-40.

Michael Neser (17 not out) and Michael Hogan (0 not out) will be at the crease in the morning when Glamorgan resume on 150-9, trailing by 23 runs.

When play got underway Glamorgan’s bowlers enjoyed a fine start, finding movement off the pitch with the odd delivery keeping low, to take four wickets in the morning as the Lancashire batsmen found it tricky going after being put in.

Keaton Jennings fell for 3 when Hogan brought one back to beat the opening batsman’s defence. Luke Wells was lbw for 10 after offering no shot to Weighell’s seventh delivery and Alex Davies mistimed a cut to be caught for 21 by Salter at point to give Weighell his second wicket.



Neser claimed the fourth wicket when he jagged a delivery away from Bohannon pushing forward, with wicketkeeper Chris Cooke catching the resultant nick to leave Lancashire on 74-4 at the break.

And Glamorgan struck a big double blow early in the afternoon to hammer home their advantage with two wickets in two balls.

Vilas became Michael Hogan’s 400th first-class wicket for Glamorgan when he got himself in tangle playing at a well-pitched up delivery to be lbw for 12 and Liam Livingstone followed for 17 from the next delivery when he edged Lloyd to wicketkeeper Chris Cooke standing up leaving Lancashire in trouble on 86-6.



Four boundaries by Wood (28) took the total past the hundred mark and he clipped Weighell over midwicket for six during the highest partnership of the innings, 36 runs for the 7th wicket with Lamb (12), before both departed lbw to Neser.

Bailey struck 5 fours in a positive innings of 31-the highest of the innings-and was last out as Lancashire posted their lowest first innings total since they also made 173 against Notts last year.

But then the Lancashire bowlers got to work.

[exile]

Jun 3, 2021 18:13:26 GMT man in the stand said:

Evens I'd say. Wicket looks ok on the camera but I presume an inspector will call..
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The pitch was difficult  - variable bounce and just enough seam movement to deceive the batsmen - but quite a few of the latter got out to dubious shots and I don't think there's anything for the pitch inspectors to fuss about.  For Lancs Wells was lbw playing no shot; Davies tried to cut one that was much too close; Livingstone played a loose drive.  Lancs gave away a lot of cheap runs at the start of the Glamorgan innings, mainly through overpitching, but once the bowlers found the right length it became clear why Glamorgan have far more bowling than batting points.  If the pitch eases, as seems likely, Lancs will need to bat a lot better second time round.  

[man in the stand]

I'm sure some batsmen were out to poor shots but was that true of all nineteen? More likely Glamorgan prepared a "result" pitch gambling that they could a get a win to keep alive their hopes of making it to Division One. This is a side effect of the BWT. Similar to what has happened before towards the end of pre-Covid County Championships.

[Admin]

88-3 at lunch suspect a chase of over 250 could be difficult

[Admin]

Livingstone quick 14 and gone I despair 113-5

[werneth]

Jun 4, 2021 12:59:38 GMT Admin said:

Livingstone quick 14 and gone I despair 113-5

You just knew it. Those gifted fours in the previous over and then that. It's one giveaway dismissal after another. Appalling.

[Admin]

119-6

[Admin]

124-8 might be 2 day game

[chris]

Jun 4, 2021 13:13:26 GMT Admin said:

124-8 might be 2 day game

what’s that 5 wickets in 6 six overs after lunch?  Not the way to win a match.

88/2 after 25.1 overs to 124/8 in 31.5 overs:  so 36/6 in 6.4 overs almost scoring at 6 runs an over - shame about the wickets.

[Admin]

158-9 some vital runs in the 9th wicket partnership

[Admin]

164 all out

Need 188 highest score of the match

[exile]

Lancs are odd on to lose this now unless Glamorgan suddenly collapse.  We needed to set 250 but succumbed to headless chicken syndrome.  Lamb and Mahmood steadied things but it was too late.

[Admin]

Get rid of Marnus and we have a slim chance