SECOND XI REPORT: Hurst hits 96 before bowlers strike to make Glamorgan follow-on
Matty Hurst shone with the bat while the Lancashire bowlers enjoyed great success with the ball to have Glamorgan struggling having followed-on at Northern C.C. on the second day of this Second Eleven Championship match. The visitors have reached 70-4 in their second innings by the close but are still a huge 242 runs behind.
Lancashire resumed on 331-5 this morning and Hurst, 23 not out overnight, moved on steadily to reach his half century from 109 balls with an emphatic drive past mid-on for his fourth boundary.
Tom Aspinwall helped Hurst add 73 for the sixth wicket until he chopped on to Ben Morris for 20, the first of three wickets to fall for 13 runs as Jack Blatherwick was caught behind by Horton off Zain Ul-Hassan for 0 and Matt Parkinson was bowled by Prem Sisodiya for 5.
Hurst continued to score strongly, predominantly through the leg side, adding 20 for the ninth wicket with Jack Morley until Sisodiya struck again when Morley edged behind to replacement ‘keeper Will Smale for 8.
That left Hurst on 90 with one wicket remaining but having lofted Sisodiya for four to the long-on boundary to go to 96 at the end of the 131st over, the 19 year-old agonisingly just missed out on a fine second Red Rose century when he fell to the next ball he faced, edging a forward defensive push to first slip off seamer Andrew Gorvin.
Glamorgan struggled from the start of their reply to Lancashire’s 445 all out following a devasting opening spell of 3-7 from Luke Wood and two wickets by Danny Lamb that reduced the visitors to 43-5.
Morgan Bevans edged the first delivery of the innings from Wood to George Lavelle behind the stumps with Wood uprooting fellow opener Smale’s off stump for 2, before Rob Jones took a superb one-handed catch diving to his left at second slip off Lamb to dismiss Glamorgan skipper Callum Taylor for 1.
Two lbw decisions for Wood and Lamb sent back Ben Kellaway for 5 and Tom Bevan for 15 respectively and those success were backed by two wickets for Blatherwick who bowled Zain Ul-Hassan for 5 and Gorvin for 14 with good length deliveries that both hit the top of off stump.
Sisodiya (27 off 34 balls) and Jamie McIlroy (an unbeaten 31 off 40 balls) hit out to rally the visitors from a desperate 73-7 until Sisodiya sliced a catch to Arav Shetty off Morley and – with the injured Alex Horton absent – last man Ben Morris was beaten by a sharply turning leg break from Cian Dickinson that ended the innings on 133 all out.
Following-on 312 runs behind, Glamorgan lost early wickets; two in the same sixth over of the innings when Lamb trapped Bevans lbw for 11 and three balls later knocked back Bevan’s off stump with the visitors 17-2.
Smale had struck five boundaries in his 35 before edging Blatherwick to Jones at second slip and Morley iced the cake on Lancashire’s excellent day when he had Kellaway lbw for 10 with what was meant to be the penultimate ball of the day but proved to be the last, leaving Glamorgan deep in trouble.
Score Summary
Second Eleven Championship
Lancashire v Glamorgan at Northern CC, Day 2
Glamorgan trail by 242 runs with six second-innings wickets left
Glamorgan won the toss and opted to bowl
Lancashire 1st inns 445 all out (132 overs) Jones 163, Singh 104, Hurst 96, Sisodiya 4-82, Zain Ul-Hassan 3-58.
Lancashire score at 110 overs: 378-5.
Glamorgan 1st inns 133 all out (36 overs) McIlroy 31*, Wood 3-7, Lamb 2-20, Blatherwick 2-45.
& 2nd inns (following-on) 70-4 (19.5 overs) Smale 35, Lamb 2-15.
TEAMS
Lancashire: Harry Singh, George Lavelle (wkt), Arav Shetty, Matty Hurst, Rob Jones, Luke Wood (capt), Danny Lamb, Cian Dickinson, Tom Aspinwall, Jack Blatherwick, Matt Parkinson, Jack Morley.
Glamorgan: Morgan Bevans, Will Smale, Tom Bevan, Callum Taylor (capt), Alex Horton (wkt), Ben Kellaway, Zain Ul-Hassan, Andrew Gorvin, Prem Sisodiya, Jamie McIlroy, Ben Morris, Asim Hameed.
Glamorgan change: Will Smale replaced Alex Horton (absent injured) as wicketkeeper in the Lancashire first innings on the second day.