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Glamorgan were 99/2 when rain stopped play shortly before lunch on the fourth and final day of their rain-affected Specsavers County Championship match against Kent at The SSE SWALEC with the Welsh county having an overall lead of 168 runs.
Lunchtime Report
1973 was a very special year in the history of Kent County Cricket Club as they became the first team to achieve the double of winning the Sunday League and the Benson and Hedges Cup. January of that year had also seen the country enter the European Economic Community, now the EU, and tomorrow the nation decides whether the remain “in” or to move “out” of the trans-national body.
Today though is decision day as far as the cricketers of Kent and Glamorgan are concerned in their Championship contest in Cardiff, but unlike the Brexit debate and the weeks of politicking, the weather looks set to play a decisive role in the final outcome, with 104.1 overs having been lost on the first two days, so that the likely outcome to this contest, unlike the Referendum, is that things will remain all-square.
Jacques Rudolph began the day by leg-glancing the first delivery, from Darren Stevens to fine-leg, but in the fourth over of the day, he hooked Mitch Claydon to fine-leg where Calum Haggett completed the catch. 29/2 saw Will Bragg join Wallace and he began with a booming off-drive against Claydon whilst Wallace played watchfully against Stevens who delivered successive maidens, one of which saw the oddity of nine leg-byes.
Wallace then cover drove Claydon for four, before Bragg added a brace of three’s followed by another imperious straight-drive against Claydon. The southpaw then dispatched Haggett to wide long-on when he entered the attack, before Wallace again cover drove Stevens as well as pulling Haggett for four. But with the total on 81, Matt Coles ended Bragg’s tenure at the crease as with his fourth delivery he bowled the left-hander.
With Chris Cooke as his new partner, Wallace dabbed Coles to the vacant ropes at third man before driving Haggett square of the wicket for another four. But soon afterwards rain started to fall and the players left the field at 12.40pm with an early lunch being taken at 12.50pm.
