Downcast Kent offer easy pickings

RESULT

Glamorgan won by 5 wickets

Glamorgan 229 and 192 for five (Selman 70) beat Kent 302 (Denly 152, Hogan 4-44) and 115 (Rouse 44, Hogan 6-43) by 5 wickets

Glamorgan chalked up their third glean of the Specsavers County Championship campaign with more than a day to spare after reaching 192 for five in Canterbury to inflict a first dwelling defeat of the season by 5 wickets upon a weary and downcast Kent facet.

Having brushed off the hosts for a meagre 115 in their second innings, Glamorgan made essentially the most easy of starts to their pursuit of a 189-speed victory procedure when openers Nick Selman and Connor Brown posted 96 – essentially the most easy partnership for any wicket within the match.

Brown must absorb departed with 15 to his name when Darren Stevens downed a law scramble rep off the bowling of Calum Haggett, then Haggett became once again the luckless bowler when Selman, on 64, became once dropped by Zak Crawley at third scramble.

Brown at final went for 33 to Haggett, caught at level at the second try by replace fielder Oli Robinson, then, alongside with his regain on 70, Selman flayed at a wide one from Stevens to be caught within the motivate of for his 62nd first-class wicket and a career-most effective season’s haul.

With is subsequent ball 41-one year-extinct Stevens pegged motivate Kiran Carlson’s off stump by ability of an interior edge then, true forward of tea, Jack Murphy flayed a wide one to Zak Crawley within the gully to present the Kent aged 5 wickets within the match.

Most attention-grabbing 10 balls after tea Chris Cooke drove a return rep to left-arm spinner Imran Qayyum, so it became once left to David Lloyd, who scored a pugnacious inbeaten 35, to note his facet over the glean line with a slog-swept six off Qayyum.

Admittedly, prerequisites on day three fell with imperfect appropriate fortune in Glamorgan’s favour – they bowled on a steamy overcast morning and batted beneath blue skies all afternoon – but for Kent it became once beautiful noteworthy all gloom and doom as their final day’s action of the season ended with a second championship defeat of the summer and their first red-ball defeat to Glamorgan on dwelling soil since 1992 [Glamorgan secured an eight-wicket victory in an experimental pink-ball, four-day game here in 2011] .

Before every thing of the day, one-time promotion-chasers Kent resumed on their overnight regain of 98 for six – a lead of 171 – and with high-scorer Adam Rouse, the county’s understudy wicketkeeper and replace for Sam Billings, at the crease. Nevertheless dwelling hopes of surroundings a testing 200-plus procedure had been rapidly quashed as Kent lost their final four wickets for nine runs within the plan of 26 balls.

Haggett started the crumple, aiming an ambitious push drive at the ever-consistent Michael Hogan, Haggett performed out of doors an off-cutter that darted down the Canterbury slope to pluck out center stump and affords Hogan 5-wickets.

Rouse’s resistance ended for 44 when he toe-ended an tried pull towards Lucas Carey to mid-on, then, 5 balls later, Carey struck again by having Kent debutant Grant Stewart caught within the cordon by used Kent 2nd XI batsman Nick Selman.

Hogan polished it off by having final man Imran Qayyum caught within the motivate of for a first-ball duck to total with six for 43 and career-most effective match figures of 10 for 87.

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