Lloyd leads a fightback before bad light halts play with Glamorgan on 166/6

With 75.1 overs remaining in the day’s quota, Glamorgan resumed at 1pm on 23/1 with Mark Wallace and Colin Ingram having faced five balls together yesterday following the departure of James Kettleborough. Rory Kleinveldt and Olly Stone resumed the bowling duties as a large bank of rain-bearing cumulo-nimbus cloud built up to the west of the ground.

At first, the curtain of rain skirted the Wantage Road ground as Wallace steered Stone through point for four. Ingram also guided Kleinveldt through the gully for four but next over he edged his fellow South African into the hands of first slip. 36/2 saw Aneurin Donald join Wallace and the teenager steered his first delivery through point, before Wallace cut Stone to backward point, but the band of rain then descended over the ground as the players left the field again – like yesterday – after just 22 minutes play. It was only a brief stoppage, shaving a further four overs from the daily quota.

Kleinveldt and Stone continued the bowling, with each gaining lavish movement in the overcast conditions. After Wallace had taken a couple of blows to his torso, Donald swatted Kleinveldt over the slip cordon for four but the Springbok gained his third victim, and Northants their first bowling point as he plucked out the young tyro’s middle stump. But for the third time in the contest, as soon as a wicket tumbled, down came the rain, as one ball later, the heavens opened as the players yet again left the field.

The rain eased after twenty minutes and mopping up operations began, with tea being taken at 3.10pm and a re-start scheduled at 3.30pm.