DOMINANT DISPLAY AS BATSMEN SHINE

OUR Glamorgan batters passed 50 to put the hosts in a dominant position for a three-day finish against Northamptonshire at Sophia Gardens.

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A 141-run partnership between in-form Ben Kellaway and Sam Northeast scoring 95 and 67 respectively asserted the lead for the hosts to go with Kiran Carlson’s 54 and Timm van der Gugten’s 61 either side of lunch in a ruthless performance to get the hosts to 424.

Andy Gorvin took two wickets in the penultimate over of the day, leaving the visitors on 49 for three and trailing by 190 runs.

Glamorgan resumed on the morning of day two at 82 for 3, recovering from a wobble of three wickets for two runs the previous evening with Northeast and Carlson carrying on from their day one foundations.

Carlson, the stroke player of the two, reached his 50 in no time, flicking a short ball from Julian Broad for four, a rare loose delivery for the three-for taking bowler, rectifying his mistakes from day one.