Glamorgan beat Cardiff UCCE by 140 runs on the final afternoon of their three-day friendly at Sophia Gardens
Richard Thomas of the South Wales Evening Post22-Jun-2001Glamorgan beat Cardiff UCCE by 140 runs on the final afternoon of their three-day friendly at Sophia Gardens.The students were set 308 to win in four and a half hours but weredismissed for 167 with 19 overs left.However, Glamorgan had to work for their wickets and it was left toSimon Jones to break the back of the innings.Despite bowling off a shortened run up after jarring his left ankle inthe first innings Jones still generated enough pace to hurry theyoungsters.And it was Jones who helped reduce UCCE from 72-3 to 151-7 – still 106short of the winning line.After a long spell from the Cathedral End trialist Ali Bukhari wasrewarded with two wickets bowling Chris Yates and Ed Brown in the spaceof two overs.Jones deservedly wrapped up the innings to finish with figures of 5-35.Only Gareth Hopkins offered any real resistance at the top of theinnings until he was well caught by wicket-keeper Mark Wallace off DavidHarrison.Harrison followed up his 4-62 in the students first innings with anunbeaten 61 to help guide Glamorgan to what looked like aninsurmountable lead.Glamorgan had resumed their second innings this morning on 87-4, a leadof 224, with Alun Evans and Harrison looking for quick runs.The only setback was when Evans, who had scored 137 in the firstinnings, was well caught at square leg off the bowling of Nick Creed toleave the county 101-5.