da imperador bet： Glamorgan recorded their third Championship win of the season as theydefeated Somerset by 110 runs at Sophia Gardens – a win that elevates the Welshcounty into fourth place in Division Two and maintains their bid for promotion
Andrew Hignell12-Jul-2003Glamorgan recorded their third Championship win of the season as theydefeated Somerset by 110 runs at Sophia Gardens – a win that elevates the Welshcounty into fourth place in Division Two and maintains their bid for promotion.Resuming on 129/3 in their bid to score 424, Somerset were dealt an early blowwhen, after only 15 runs had been added in the morning, Jamie Cox was caught at cover pointby Matthew Maynard off Alex Wharf. Twenty runs later Wharf struck again as he clean bowledIan Blackwell, and it looked as if the match might be all over before lunch.However, Michael Burns, the visiting cptain, had other ideas, and together with Aaron Laraman,the pair took the score to 217-5 at the end of the morning session. Burns played freely all aroundthe wicket and after the interval he duly reached his first Championship hundred of the season, afterhaving batted for a shade over 3 hours, and having hit 17 fours.But by the time Burns had reached this landmark, inroads had been made at the other end, afterRobert Croft opted to take the new ball. Laraman was caught behind by Mark Wallace to give Alex Wharf histhird wicket, and then the young wicket-keeper took a superb catch diving low one-handed, to catchan edge by Rob Turner off the bowling of Michael Kasprowicz.Burns was then run-out by Adrian Dale after a mix-up with Keith Dutch, and despite a few defiant blows byKeith Dutch, the end finally came a quarter of an hour before tea as Dutch chipped a ball from Croftinto the hands of Dale at mid-wicket, as Somerset were bowled out for 313.Alex Wharf ended with figures of 4/90, whilst Michael Kasprowicz took 2/91 from 35 overs, and the seamerswholehearted efforts were singled out for praise afterwards by captain Robert Croft. “This was ahard fought victory, and a lot of credit must go to the seam bowlers for always being prepared to run in hardand to hit the wicket all day, which was no mean feat in this heat.”