Glamorgan’s Chris Cooke drives a ball from Rehan Ahmed of LeicestershireLV= County Championship Division Two, Uptonsteel County Floor, Leicester (day three)Leicestershire 407: Hanscomb 95, Ahmed 90, Hill 53; Van der Gugten 6-88 Glamorgan: 446-8: Cooke 121*, Neser 90, Labuschagne 64, Byrom 51; Scriven 3-50, Wright 3-89Glamorgan (5 pts) lead Leicestershire (6 pts) by 39 runs with two first-innings wickets standingMatch scorecard
A report Glamorgan eighth-wicket stand of 211 between Chris Cooke and Michael Neser put Glamorgan into an unlikely first-innings lead at Leicester.
Their affected person partnership rescued the guests, who have been in peril of getting to follow-on.
Neser’s 90 was his greatest county rating, whereas Cooke was unbeaten on 121 when dangerous mild intervened.
It was the second yr working Cooke had helped set a Glamorgan report at Leicester.
The Cooke-Neser stand beat a report relationship again to 1928, when Dai Davies and Joe Hills placed on 202 in opposition to Sussex at Eastbourne.
It follows Cooke’s innings of 191 not out in a report sixth-wicket stand of 461 at Grace Street 9 months beforehand, when Sam Northeast’s 410 not out took the headlines.
Resuming on 164-5, Glamorgan took till simply after lunch to move the follow-on determine of 258 after being made to work arduous by the Leicestershire seam assault.
The house facet have been with out Ed Barnes with an ankle damage suffered delivering his first ball of the match, though he in some way accomplished 9 overs on the second night.
Mike Finan achieved some prodigious early swing, but it surely was one among his much less threatening deliveries which noticed Northeast caught behind for a gritty 40 as he sought to recapture his record-breaking type of the earlier go to.
There have been not one of the fireworks of that event, however he and Neser earned Glamorgan two batting factors with a painstaking partnership which noticed them attain 318-7 by the 110 overs mark.
They have been content material to punish the odd dangerous ball and take singles to maintain the scoreboard ticking, whereas each males practically…
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