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Congratulations to Michael Hogan on his 100th wicket in all competitions this year #decent
— SPIN Cricket (@spincricket) September 24, 2013
Day Three
Glamorgan and Gloucestershire endured a frustrating day as rain prevented any play on the third day at Cardiff.
The Welsh county were set to resume on 271-9, needing to score five more runs for a first-innings lead.
However, steady drizzle kept both sides in the dressing rooms.
Umpires Rob Bailey and Steve Garrett ordered an early tea at 14:40 BST, but with no sign of a let-up in the weather, they abandoned play for the day soon after.
Day Two
JIM ALLENBY again demonstrated his importance to Glamorgan as the all-rounder once more held the Welsh county together in their final match of the summer.
The 31-year-old wrapped up the Gloucestershire innings for 275 after taking the final two wickets on the second morning of the County Championship match at the Swalec Stadium.
Allenby followed up with his 10th score past 50 this summer and surpassing 1,200 first-class runs for the 2013 season.
His contribution of 85 alongside Chris Cooke (50) and Ruaidhri Smith (39) helped Glamorgan to 271 for nine at the close, a first innings deficit of just four.
Gloucestershire resumed the second day on 228 for eight and a tedious morning session followed as they added just 47 more runs.
Allenby took the final two wickets of Graeme McCarter and Matt Taylor to finish with miserly figures of three for 31 from 19 overs.
In reply, Glamorgan slipped to 12 for two with Gareth Rees (seven) caught by Chris Dent at second slip from McCarter and Will Gidman trapping Ben Wright (0) lbw.
Murray Goodwin, promoted to opening the innings after Will Bragg had been dropped, never looked comfortable for his 44-ball 14.
The former Zimbabwe Test star was caught by Dent from Taylor before Cooke and Allenby shared a fourth-wicket stand of 56.
Cooke, Glamorgan’s YB40 top scorer this summer with 546, brought up his third first-class 50 in 66 balls just before he was bowled by Taylor before tea.
This brought North Walian David Lloyd to the crease for his first start of the season. Lloyd had made two appearance at the end of last summer where he suffered three noughts before an unbeaten 11 against Kent.
The 21-year-old surpassed this with an encouraging 16 before he became Gidman’s second victim when Dent took a third slip catch.
Gidman soon struck again as captain Mark Wallace edged behind to fellow Abergavenny and Welsh wicket-keeper Cameron Herring.
Allenby brought up his 50 in 68 balls with six fours and a six but was dropped twice from Will Gidman by his brother Alex at slip and Herring.
Graham Wagg, who was awarded his county cap on the opening day in Cardiff, was the next to fall when he was trapped lbw by McCarter for 10.
Allenby and promising teenager Smith shared an eighth-wicket stand of 48 before Allenby became Dent’s fourth slip victim with Taylor taking the prized wicket.
Smith, 19, bowled an impressive spell on the opening evening and followed this up with his useful first-class batting best before edging Gidman to Herring.
Dean Cosker and Michael Hogan added some lusty blows with a final wicket stand of 27 to close in on Gloucestershire’ first innings total.
Day one
Seamer Michael Hogan claimed his 100th wicket of the season as Glamorgan restricted Gloucestershire on the opening day of their LV= County Championship match at Cardiff.
Gloucestershire had reached 228 for eight in their first innings from 82.1 overs when bad light ended play at 5.30pm.
It was Glamorgan’s first game since they went down to Nottinghamshire in last Saturday’s Yorkshire Bank 40 final at Lord’s.
The Welsh county made three changes to their side which drew last week with Essex at Chelmsford with Jim Allenby, Graham Wagg and David Lloyd replacing Will Bragg, Andrew Salter and John Glover.
Hogan struck at the start of the seventh over to reach the landmark by bowling opener Gareth Roderick.
That was after Glamorgan won the toss and put Gloucestershire in to bat in helpful bowling conditions.
Hogan now has 65 wickets in the Championship, 28 in the Yorkshire Bank 40 and eight in the Friends Life t20.
But from 12 for one Gloucestershire recovered either side of lunch with Dent reaching his half-century from 77 balls shortly before the interval.
By lunch the visitors looked quite well set but in the afternoon they struggled going from 90 for one to 176 for six.
With the total on 90 Allenby bowled Alex Gidman and Dent, who had looked well set for a century edged slow left armer Dean Cosker into the Australian’s hands at slip.
Cosker struck again next ball to have Iain Cockbain also caught at slip by Allenby from a turning delivery.
With the total on 156 Gloucestershire lost Hamish Marshall, who is 10 short of reaching 1,000 runs for the season, as he edged Wagg behind.
In the penultimate over before tea Cameron Herring was trapped lbw by Hogan.
Ruaidhri Smith struck twice bowling Benny Howell and then had Gidman caught behind.
Glamorgan took the second new ball, but with the cloud cover having increased, the light deteriorated and forced the players off with 13.5 overs left of the day.
