Luis Reece 201*, Harry Came 141* full Derbyshire shut-out of Glamorgan
Derbyshire 318 (Reece 131, Came 65) and 360 for 0 dec (Reece 201*, Came 141*) drew with Glamorgan 521 for 8 dec (Ingram 136, Cooke 70, Zain-ul-Hassan 69, Carlson 57, Root 52)
Luis Reece and Harry Came wrote themselves into the Derbyshire file books and ended Glamorgan’s victory hopes because the LV=Insurance County Championship match at Derby led to a draw.
Reece and Came set a brand new county file opening stand of 360 with the pair batting via the fourth day to complete on career-best scores. Reece made 201 from 338 balls and Came 141 off 336 as Derbyshire firmly shut the door on Glamorgan to shut 157 runs forward having begun the day 125 behind.
Glamorgan used 9 bowlers with out success on a day of fruitless toil for the promotion hopefuls who took 13 factors whereas Derbyshire completed with 9.
The guests began the day nonetheless in with an opportunity of forcing victory and overcast situations at the least gave their bowlers some encouragement. But the pitch was definitely providing little and it quickly grew to become clear that one other high-scoring Derby draw was the more than likely final result.
Timm van der Gugten did discover the skin edge in his opening spell however few balls beat the bat as Reece and Came performed with the identical self-discipline and focus that had been a characteristic of their first-innings partnership.
The hundred got here up within the sixth over of the morning and represented a big milestone because it was solely the third time in Derbyshire’s historical past that there had been two century opening stands in a match.
Glamorgan skipper David Llloyd, who might be enjoying his cricket at Derby subsequent season, used 5 bowlers to try to breakthrough however to no avail.
Reece accomplished his second hundred of the sport from 177 balls and have become solely the twentieth participant to realize the feat for Derbyshire within the Championship.
Mitchell Swepson thought he had bought Reece with the final ball of the session which struck him in entrance as he performed again however the enchantment was turned down which summed up a totally dispiriting morning for the guests. They could have mirrored over lunch that when a prayer room which is at present being constructed on the bottom is open, bowlers of all faiths might be queuing to get in given the character of Derby pitches.
Reece and Came scored 107 runs within the morning to go away their aspect solely 18 behind they usually continued to bat Derbyshire in the direction of security within the afternoon. The 200 stand got here up within the 68th over and Came went to his second Championship century of the season when he hit Kiran Carlson’s offspin over mid on for his twelfth 4.
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By tea, Derbyshire had been 94 forward and the one query was if Reece and Came may break the county’s file opening stand of 333 set by Reece and Billy Godleman towards Northants in 2017.
Glamorgan got here out for the ultimate session with Colin Ingram changing Chris Cooke behind the stumps and Sam Northeast opening together with his occasional off-spin. The milestone was damaged when Reece drove Billy Root for a single and he reached his double hundred by slicing Zain-ul-Hassan for his twentieth 4 simply earlier than the groups shook palms at 4.40pm.