Northeast and Ingram lead Glamorgan to draw at Leicestershire
Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester (day four)Glamorgan 353: Tribe 107 & 342-6 dec: Northeast 139, Ingram 133*Leicestershire 576-7 dec: Budinger 118, Ahmed 106 Leicestershire (16 pts) drew with Glamorgan (13 pts)Match scorecard
Glamorgan defied Division Two leaders Leicestershire as Sam Northeast and Colin Ingram led the way to a battling draw.The visitors started the final day three wickets down and still 92 behind, but patient knocks from the experienced pair of Northeast (139) and Ingram (133 not out) steered them to 342-6 in their second innings.The pair shared a Glamorgan record fourth-wicket stand against Leicestershire of 225.The Foxes claimed two wickets in mid-afternoon to revive their hopes but dropped Ingram on 103, and eventually agreed the draw at 16:50 BST. The match will be remembered for a spectacular maiden first-class century by Foxes opener Sol Budinger, after Glamorgan's Asa Tribe also achieved the same landmark in the first innings.
Glamorgan started the final day on 131-3 after Northeast and Ingram had survived the final session on day three.They serenely added a further 83 in the morning sunshine with few alarms, as Leicestershire were left ruing Rehan Ahmed's inability to bowl because of a side strain.With the Kookaburra ball - being used for the first time this season in the Championship - going soft quickly, the key moment was always likely to be the new ball coming five overs after lunch with Glamorgan still four runs behind. The Foxes turned to spinner Liam Trevaskis with the ball still hard, and he induced Northeast to play an aerial attacking shot for the first time with Sam Wood holding a fine catch running back to long-off.The Glamorgan skipper, who had hit the county's record of 410 not out on the ground three years previously, had faced 274 balls and struck 16 fours.Ben Kellaway was caught at square leg by Wood off Ben Green for 14, and Leicestershire could have had Ingram on 103 only for Logan van Beek to spill a juggling attempt on the square-leg boundary off Green's bowling. Impassioned appeals for close catches against Ingram and Chris Cooke off Trevaskis were turned down and Glamorgan still had five wickets standing at tea.Rishi Patel, bowling his off-spin for the first time in county cricket, got rid of the obdurate Cooke for nine. But first-innings centurion Tribe, who had spent much of the match in bed with illness, came in at eight to make 16 not out and accompany the weary Ingram to the end.Ingram, who turns 40 at the start of July, batted for more than seven hours, facing 308 balls but striking just 11 fours as he showed his calm temperament and ability to dig in for the long haul.
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