Cricket Pitch the only winner as Glos game ends in tame draw

GLOUCESTERSHIRE’S long wait for a home win in the Rothesay County Championship continued as Colin Ingram led Glamorgan to a comfortable draw on the final day of the Division Two match at the Seat Unique Stadium.

- By RICHARD LATHAM

Beginning the day on 106-0 in their second innings, trailing by 55 runs, the visitors slipped to 122-3 in the opening half-hour, but had reached 288-4, a lead of 127, when rain ended play at 4.20pm. First-innings centurion Ingram made an unbeaten 77, off 162 balls, with nine fours, while Kiran Carlson contributed 49.

Matt Taylor struck twice early on for Gloucestershire, but from then on it was an all too familiar tale for the hosts, struggling to take wickets on a placid last-day pitch. They took 15 points from the game to Glamorgan’s 13 and have still not won a Championship game at Bristol since September 2022.

Only two runs had been added at the start of play when Eddie Byrom, unbeaten on 47 overnight, edged a delivery from Taylor straight to the only slip Cameron Bancroft, standing where a normal third slip would be positioned. It was the early breakthrough Gloucestershire needed and they soon built on it.