Luis Reece, Harry Came and rain frustrate Glamorgan
Derbyshire 95 for 0 (Reece 52*, Came 37*) path Glamorgan 521 for 8 dec (Ingram 136, Cooke 70, Zain-ul-Hassan 69, Carlson 57, Root 52) by 426 runs
A mix of decided batting and rain pissed off promotion hopefuls Glamorgan on the second day of the LV=Insurance County Championship match in opposition to Derbyshire.
Glamorgan racked up 521 for 8 declared, the county’s highest ever rating at Derby, with wicketkeeper Chris Cooke plundering 70 from 51 balls.
But their bowlers additionally struggled on one other placid Incora County Ground pitch as Luis Reece, 52, and Harry Came, 37, shared an unbroken opening stand of 95 in 40 overs earlier than rain prevented any play after tea.
Only two wickets fell in two classes with the sample of the primary day repeated within the morning as Cooke and the decrease order punished some erratic bowling.
Cooke pulled Anuj Dal, who was match to bowl after turning an ankle yesterday night, for six on his approach to a 40-ball fifty and took his crew to most batting factors by steering the medium-pacer to the third man boundary. He drove off-spinner Alex Thomson for a second six over huge lengthy on however three overs later he edged Dal to the one slip.
Andy Gorvin, who had helped Cooke add 65 from 81 balls for the seventh wicket, was caught behind attempting to show Sam Conners to leg however Glamorgan batted on for six extra overs earlier than the declaration got here.
It had been one other chastening spell within the discipline for Derbyshire with 113 runs coming from 22 overs and in whole, 322 of Glamorgan’s runs had are available boundaries.
The residence facet was left with a probably difficult eight overs to bat earlier than lunch however the benign nature of the pitch meant there have been few alarms for Reece and Came aside from an in depth run-out probability simply earlier than the interval.
Timm van der Gugten and Jamie McIlroy did beat the bat after the break however there was little encouragement for the Glamorgan assault.
Their bowlers did no less than hold it tight however Reece, who turned the nineteenth Derbyshire participant to attain 6,000 runs and take 150 wickets in all cricket, accomplished his fifty from 111 balls as he and Came batted by the second session.
It was back-to-back fifties for Reece after his unbeaten 54 in opposition to Durham on Friday however his possibilities of changing it right into a century on Wednesday had been dashed when rain arrived throughout the tea interval with play referred to as off for the day at 17.10.