Kellaway and Ingram tons take Glamorgan to big lead v Glos

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Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day three)Gloucestershire 380: Bracey 133 & 12-0 Glamorgan 528 (151.1 overs): Kellaway 139, Ingram 117, Cooke 75; Van Buuren 3-87Gloucestershire (4 pts) trail Glamorgan (6 pts) by 136 runs with all 10 second-innings wickets standingMatch scorecard
Centuries from Ben Kellaway and Colin Ingram provided the highlights of day three as Glamorgan took a first-innings lead of 148 over Gloucestershire.The visitors were left with 11 overs to bat in the second innings and go into Wednesday's final day on 12-0.Youngster Kellaway (139) and veteran Ingram (117) were chanceless through the morning session before Gloucestershire's bowlers applied some control, led by Graeme van Buuren (3-87).Chris Cooke's 75 ensured a useful home advantage before Glamorgan's innings meandered to a close. Survival looks to be the order of the final day for the Shire, but there have been no demons in the pitch and a Kookaburra ball for the bowlers to labour with.
Glamorgan started the day on 228-4 and milked 11 overs of spin before the new ball, Ingram and Kellaway moving from the 50s to the 70s.There was no change in Gloucestershire's fortunes with the harder ball as the pair kept the scoreboard ticking over without a chance. Kellaway, 21, showed mature judgement as he reached the second hundred of the season and his fledgling career off 180 balls, while the ever-serene Ingram took 176 balls to notch up his 16th ton in 59 first-class matches wearing the daffodil badge.After a superb first session for the batters producing 137 runs, Gloucestershire slammed the brakes on after lunch with Ajeet Singh Dale and Zaman Akhter alternating overs of mainly short-pitched bowling from the River Taff end, while Van Buuren plugged away at the Cathedral Road end.Ingram was first to crack as he upper-cut Akhter to third man, while Singh Dale induced Kellaway to pull to a leaping Miles Hammond, and the visitors had a second bowling point while Glamorgan stalled well short of a fourth batting point that had looked likely. Cautious batting from Cooke and Timm van der Gugten (33), together with some negative bowling, saw the tempo drop in the afternoon though they put together a stand of 82.Cooke eventually got going before Van Buuren removed him and Andy Gorvin (22) to earn reward for his perseverance.Gloucestershire openers Cameron Bancroft and Joe Phillips could both have been run out in the first two overs as both were guilty of poor calls.But the pair settled down and blocked out the closing stages to give their side a decent chance of a draw.