Collapse ruins a top-scoring debut for Matt
VETERAN Aussie paceman Michael Hogan and James Harris both came up with four wickets as they ruined top-of-the-table Nottinghamshire’s hopes of surpassing Glamorgan’s modest opening day total of 318 in the LV= Insurance Division 2 County Championship.
Having resumed on 19-0 overnight, Notts moved effortlessly to 233-3 and then 255-4 before losing their last six wickets for a mere 30 runs. That meant they found themselves 33 runs short of the Welsh county’s first innings score.
Glamorgan had 17 overs to face at the end of the second day and they successfully negotiated that test to end on 53-0 and take a very handy 86-run lead into Day 3 as skipper David Lloyd ended unbeaten on 21 and Eddie Byrom 28.
Matt Montgomery marked his County Championship debut for Notts with a superb catch on Day 1 at Sophia Gardens and he went on to play an anchor role on Day 2 as he notched a first-class high score of 80.
The 22-year-old South African only got to play in the match in the Welsh capital because Ben Duckett was away on England Lions duty.
He grabbed his chance with both hands after coming in after opener Ben Slater had become the first of James Harris’ four dismissals.
He went on to feature in two 50+ partnerships, putting on 61 with Haseeb Hameed for the second wicket and then 78 with the quick-scoring Lyndon James for the fourth as he notched a first-class high score of 80 before he was bowled by Michael Neser.
Resuming at their overnight total of 19-0, Notts faced 35 minutes of pace bowling from Glamorgan’s Aussie duo of Neser and Michael Hogan before skipper David Lloyd and James Harris took over. Harris kept his length and was rewarded with four wickets for his persistence.
He bowled Slater before Montgomery dug in with Hameed to steer Notts through to 130-1 at lunch. Ex-england opener Hameed looked in complete control as he hammered 12 boundaries in his 70 before he, too, was bowled by Harris.
If Hameed had been guilty of a misjudgment in offering no shot to a ball from Harris that nipped back, so was Joe Clarke, who departed for 14. That brought James to the wicket and his attractive 50 included two sixes and six fours before he was caught at slip off Hogan.
Things went from bad to worse for Notts from there on and once the Glamorgan pace attack got their hands on the new ball they quickly made in-roads into the visitor’s tail. Joey Evison was caught behind off Hogan’s first ball and in the next over Neser removed Montgomery.
Hogan then mopped up, finishing with 4-47 from 20 overs compared to Harris’ season’s best return of 4-65 off 17, ensuring Notts were denied a third batting point.
GLAMORGAN v NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
At Sophia Gardens
Overnight: GLAMORGAN 318 (SA Northeast 56; BA Hutton 4-76)
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 19-0 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE First innings continued
B T Slater b Harris ....................................................................................... 31 Hameed b Harris ........................................................................................ 70 M Montgomery b Neser ............................................................................ 80 J M Clarke b Harris ...................................................................................... 14 L W James c Lloyd b Hogan ....................................................................... 50 S J Mullaney c Byrom b Harris ................................................................... 11 L A Patterson-white c Northeast b Lloyd .................................................. 13 J D M Evison c Cooke b Hogan ..................................................................... 2 B A Hutton not out ....................................................................................... 2 L J Fletcher c Byrom b Hogan ...................................................................... 0 D Paterson b Hogan ..................................................................................... 0 Extras (b5, lb7) ............................................................................................ 12 Total (86 overs) ......................................................................................... 285 Fall of wickets: 1-64, 2-135, 3-155, 4-233, 5-255, 6-274, 7-280, 8-284, 9-285.
Bowling: Neser 18-2-52-1; Hogan 20-6-47-4; Harris 17-1-65-4; Lloyd 16-0-65-1; Salter 15-1-44-0.
GLAMORGAN second innings
D L Lloyd not out .................................................................................. 21 E J Byrom not out ................................................................................. 28 Extras (b4) ............................................................................................... 4 Total (0 wkts, 17 overs) ......................................................................... 53
Bowling: Fletcher 6-1-22-0; Hutton 3-0-14-0; Paterson 5-0-10-0; Mullaney 3-1-3-0.