Hogan plays starring role as Glamorgan rout Kent
GLAMORGAN secured a twoday victory over Kent in Cardiff after dismissing the visitors for 74 all out in their second innings in the LV= Insurance County Championship.
Darren Stevens celebrated his 45th birthday with his 30th first-class fivewicket haul and figures of five for 53, but Glamorgan took a first-innings lead of 59 runs which Kent only just surpassed.
Glamorgan’s 39-year-old Australian seamer Michael Hogan destroyed the Kent top order with five quick wickets. Hogan produced an exceptional 10 overs to take five for 28.
Glamorgan opener David Lloyd knocked off the 16 runs to win on his own and finished it with a six to record a 10-wicket win.
A total of 18 wickets fell on day two.
Glamorgan’s overnight batsmen Lloyd (62) and Billy Root (37) were both dismissed as three wickets fell in the half-hour played in the morning session before rain meant an early lunch.
Stevens bowled immaculately and trapped Lloyd leg before wicket.
Matthew Milnes then dismissed Root lbw and clean bowled Glamorgan captain Chris Cooke for a golden duck in consecutive deliveries. Wet weather then forced the players from the field.
When the teams returned, Kiran Carlson was caught at second slip by Zak Crawley from the bowling of Stevens for 15 and Milnes accounted for Callum Taylor lbw for seven.
Stevens soon grabbed his fifth wicket when Timm van der Gugten (10) was caught behind by Ollie Robinson. Kent’s change bowlers Miguel Cummins and Fredrick Klaassen wrapped up the Glamorgan innings as they reached 197.
Kent’s second innings was a disaster.
Opener Daniel Bell-Drummond skied an attempted pull shot off the bowling of Lukas Carey which just escaped Van der Gugten at mid-on, but Hogan did remove Jordan Cox lbw for six.
Carey then had a huge shout for leg before against Kent’s new man Zak Crawley which was turned down.
Hogan’s accuracy was relentless. He had Bell-Drummond (13) caught behind and clean bowled England’s Crawley – who failed to play a shot – for just a single. Joe Denly was the next to go.
He had nearly been run out by Carlson after dropping his bat, but was then lbw to Lloyd for 10.
Hogan had Robinson caught behind by Cooke for eight after tea as Kent slipped to 41 for five, still 18 runs behind. The Australian then made it five when Jack Leaning looked disappointed to be given out lbw for eight.
Stevens failed to trouble the scorers when he took a wild hack at a Lloyd delivery and was clean bowled.
Kent’s Heino Kuhn was batting with a runner due to a calf problem, but when he was lbw to Van der Gugten for 14, his team collapsed to a paltry 74 all out as Glamorgan wrapped up victory with two days to spare.