Carlson, Ingram steer chase as Glamorgan overcome Surrey resistance
Glamorgan Secure Seven-Wicket Win Over Surrey
Glamorgan leapt into the top half of the Division One table with an assertive seven-wicket win over Surrey in the Rothesay County Championship.
The home side continued their strong season back in the top flight with a third victory, chasing 195 against a stubborn Surrey side – this defeat their second in eight games, to go with five draws.
Half-Centuries from Ingram and Carlson
Half-centuries from Colin Ingram and Kiran Carlson led the way, both players passing 50 in the County Championship for the fifth time this season. Ryan Hadley earlier removed Jordan Clark in his final game for Glamorgan to end with 4 for 82, breaking Surrey’s 105-run last-wicket partnership.
After frustrating Glamorgan by batting for the whole of day three in a sun-drenched Cardiff, weary bodies came out with the requirement of breaking down a frustrating stand between allrounders Clark and Tom Lawes, batting at Nos. 10 and 11 due to Surrey’s use of two nightwatchers.
Surrey’s Resistance
The partnership resumed at 56 – with Surrey’s lead 145 – and Lawes came out to put pressure on the weary fast-bowling pair of Timm van der Gugten and Tom Norton, pulling well in front of square to demonstrate his intentions, meanwhile showing the effects of 164 overs in the field consecutively for Glamorgan.
Lawes scored freely to surpass 50 for a second time in four innings this season, combining for a century partnership with Clark supporting. But the latter, attempting to latch onto tiring bowlers, eventually fell to Hadley’s leg-side trap, top-edging a pull shot 50 minutes into the day.
Glamorgan’s Chase
With 49 added overnight, Surrey had something to bowl at. Despite the pitch’s dryness and improved condition, a comeback effort to 447 from 105 all out in the first innings was creditable.
The target of 195 may or may not have had an impact but Glamorgan’s start was shaky. Billy Root, in his first game of the season, was run out in catastrophic fashion after just four balls. With both players at the non-striker’s end, wicketkeeper Ollie Pope had an unnecessary shy, only for the backing up Dom Sibley to mop up with Root making no attempt to get home.
Two balls later, Carlson calmed the hosts’ nerves by driving through extra cover for four to get the scoreboard moving.
Carlson’s fine Division One form continued to spur Glamorgan on, with Tribe enjoying anything on his pads until he was caught feeling outside off stump against legspinner Rahul Chahar, introduced after just eight overs on the wearing surface.
The damage was done with Chahar conceding 23 in two overs, getting swept – in orthodox and reverse – regularly by Ingram, and pulled into the stands when he dropped short, albeit he hit back by bowling Carlson around his legs from around the wicket for a consolation.
Sean Dickson came in to see home the win in a third half-century stand of the innings, with Ingram’s 61 not out a fitting way to wrap up the win over the side Glamorgan last beat in the County Championship 11 years ago when he too remained at the crease to finish the job.
