Northeast keeps Glam in the race at Grace Road

CAPTAIN Sam Northeast led stubborn late resistance as Glamorgan battled to stop Leicestershire registering a fifth successive victory on the third day of the Rothesay County Championship division two match at Grace Road.

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Northeast was 72 not out as he put together an unbroken fourth wicket partnership of 95 with Colin Ingram after the visitors had been reduced to 36-3 in their second innings.

Had a sharp chance given to second slip when Northeast was on only 20 been taken, Leicestershire might well have hoped to enforce a win with a day to spare.

An impressive unbroken partnership between all-rounders Logan van Beek and Ben Green had helped Leicestershire register their highest score of the season, enabling Northeast’s opposite number Peter Handscomb to declare with an imposing first innings lead of 223.

As had happened the previous day, when Green picked up two wickets in the first over of the day, the morning session saw wickets fall early.