RESULT
Canterbury, September 25 – 27, 2017
, Specsavers County Championship Division Two
Glamorgan won by 5 wickets
A stoppedworking promo obstacle left Kent demoralised at the end of the season and Glamorgan took complete benefit
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27-Sep-2017
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Glamorgan 229 and 192 for 5 (Selman 70) beat Kent 302 (Denly 152, Hogan 4-44) and 115 (Rouse 44, Hogan 6-43) by 5 wickets
Glamorgan chalked up their 3rd win of the Specsavers County Championship project with more than a day to extra after reaching 192 for 5 in Canterbury to cause a veryfirst house defeat of the season by 5 wickets upon a tired and downcast Kent side.
Having dismissed the hosts for a meagre 115 in their 2nd innings, Glamorgan made the finest of begins to their pursuit of a 189-run success target when openers Nick Selman and Connor Brown published 96 – the finest collaboration for any wicket in the match.
Brown ought to have left with 15 to his name when Darren Stevens downed a policy slip catch off the bowling of Calum Haggett, then Haggett was onceagain the luckless bowler when Selman, on 64, was dropped by Zak Crawley at 3rd slip.
Brown lastly went for 33 to Haggett, captured at point at the 2nd effort by replacement fielder Oli Robinson, then, with his rating on 70, Selman flayed at a broad one from Stevens to be captured behind for his 62nd top-notch wicket and a career-best season’s haul.
With is next ball 41-year-old Stevens pegged back Kiran Carlson’s off stump through an inside edge then, simply inthepast tea, Jack Murphy flayed a large one to Zak Crawley in the gully to provide the Kent veteran 5 wickets in the match.
Only 10 balls after tea Chris Cooke drove a return catch to left-arm spinner Imran Qayyum, so it was left to David Lloyd, who scored a pugnacious inbeaten 35, to see his side over the win line with a slog-swept 6 off Qayyum.
Admittedly, conditions on day