da apostaganha： Glamorgan will enter the final day of their Championship matchagainst Northants at Cardiff needing a further 215 runs with6 wickets in hand to win their final home game of the seasonand maintain their bid for promotion into Division One
Andrew Hignell12-Sep-2003Glamorgan will enter the final day of their Championship matchagainst Northants at Cardiff needing a further 215 runs with6 wickets in hand to win their final home game of the seasonand maintain their bid for promotion into Division One.The visitors set the Welsh county a target of 382 after havingbeen dismissed for 265 in their second innings, with Robert Crofttaking 5/93 to record a ten wicket haul in the contest, and a matchanalysis of 10/147 – his best return for 11 years.Resuming on 80/2, Northamptonshire lost David Sales and Mark Powellin the first half hour as Glamorgan`s seamers struck in their openingspell. As in their first innings, Mike Hussey remained defiant atthe other end, but shortly after, he had reached his half-century, theintroduction of Robert Croft accounted for the visiting captain ashe was caught by Matthew Maynard for 50.This brought an abrupt end to Hussey`s productive sequence that had seenhim record five successive first-class hundreds – only Don Bradman, C.B. Fryand Mike Procter have scored six in a row.Despite some resistance from Jeff Cook and Graeme Swann, Croft proceeded towork his way through the middle and lower order, reducing Northants to 207/9,before a merry tenth wicket stand between Andre Nel and Jason Brownthwarted Glamorgan`s aspirations.The pair had added 58 before Nel was caught by Michael Kasprowiczto give Croft his fifth victim, but their lusty blows meant thatGlamorgan required a formidable target of 382 on a wicket giving some help to thespinners, and more than they had ever scored in the fourth innings ofa Championship match to win the game (367-4 v Essex at Chemsford in 2001).However, Jimmy Maher and Mark Wallace made a positive start, adding 63 runsin even time, until in the final over before tea, Maher went down the wicketto Brown and was stumped. Wallace was run out soon afterwards, and then AdrianDale was dismissed by Graeme Swann to leave Glamorgan 91/3.Matthew Maynard, drawing on all of his experience, stoutly defended againstthe Northants spinners, but in the final half-hour he lost Mike Powell asGlamorgan ended the day on 167/4, with Maynard unbeaten on 46.