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Jason Roy hit an aggressive 81 from 86 balls to lead a dramatic Surrey counterattack on the second day of their Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire

Press Association16-Sep-2014
ScorecardA familiar Jason Roy counterattack put Derbyshire on the back foot•PA PhotosJason Roy hit an aggressive 81 from 86 balls to lead a dramatic Surrey counterattack on the second day of their Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire at The Oval.Roy’s thrilling strokeplay either side of tea transformed a contest which seemed to be Derbyshire’s for the taking when they had reduced Surrey to 114 for 5 in their second innings after earlier reaching 210 themselves for a 29-run first innings lead. But with Arun Harinath supporting him solidly with 42, in a sixth wicket stand worth 122, Roy quickly took control on a pitch on which 25 wickets had tumbled in a day and a half.Surrey, bowled out for 279 just before stumps, have set Derbyshire 251 for victory on day three – and that is by no means a straightforward task. Beautiful late summer sunshine, however, seemed to draw some of the sting from a well-grassed surface and Roy swept to a 61-ball fifty to become the sixth Division Two batsman to pass 1000 Championship runs for the season.When Harinath fell, edging behind off left-arm spinner David Wainwright, it was a 10th catch in the match for 18-year-old debutant Harvey Hosein, equalling a Derbyshire wicketkeeping record held jointly by Bob Taylor, who performed the feat in 1963, and Harry Elliott, in 1935. Hosein then claimed that Derbyshire record all to himself by snapping up Gareth Batty’s edge off Mark Footitt.Harinath’s dismissal, in the 65th over, was followed five balls later by that of Roy, who marked the recall of Footitt by pulling the fast bowler’s third delivery back straight to Alex Hughes at deep square-leg.Earlier, Roy had taken 10 runs from the last over before tea, bowled by Footitt, and after the interval two fours in succession through the covers off Hughes signalled his intention to press the accelerator. Ben Cotton’s fast-medium and Wes Durston’s offspin then felt the full force of Roy’s swashbuckling strokeplay and Derbyshire’s batsmen will have to play well to reach their win target on a pitch that still has something in it for seamers and spinners alike.Derbyshire’s first innings, which resumed on 164 for 5 in reply to Surrey’s initial 181, lasted only another 80 minutes as Wayne Madsen, ninth out for 63, saw his lower order crumble against pace trio Jade Dernbach, Stuart Meaker and Tim Linley.Hosein, driving with no foot movement, edged behind off Dernbach for four to the fourth ball of the day and Wayne White was bowled by Linley for 6. Wainwright nicked Dernbach to first slip on 1 and after Madsen had reached 1000 first-class runs for the season, he edged Meaker to keeper Gary Wilson. Cotton, after a few lusty blows, was held by Steven Davies at third slip to give Meaker figures of 4 for 39.By lunch Surrey had lost both Rory Burns,caught at third slip driving loosely and Vikram Solanki, edging behind, to Cotton and – after the interval – Davies, Zafar Ansari and Wilson all got in without being able to go on. Davies, on 22, was bowled by medium-pacer Hughes and Ansari’s dogged two-hour 35 ended when Hosein accepted another edge. When Wilson chopped on against Wainwright, for 16, Surrey were at a low ebb, but Roy and Harinath came to the rescue.

Papua New Guinea are set to make their debut as a one-day international side, when they play two matches against Hong Kong on November 8 and 9 in Townsville

ESPNcricinfo staff23-Oct-2014Papua New Guinea are set to make their debut as a one-day international side, when they play two matches against Hong Kong on November 8 and 9 in Townsville, Australia’s newest international venue. The teams will also play a three-day match between November 11 and 13.Hong Kong and PNG were given ODI status by the ICC after finishing fifth and sixth at the World Cup Qualifier in New Zealand this year.”We want to be performing on the world stage against the big boys in the next five years and regular, quality international cricket is critical to achieving this aim,” Dipak Patel, the former New Zealand spinner who is the PNG coach, said. “As our first official ODI matches, the Digicel ODI series is the starting point of the next phase in Cricket PNG’s evolution.”The Tony Ireland Stadium in Townsville, north Queensland, which hosted 2012 Under-19 World Cup matches as well as several international A-team fixtures, was accredited as Australia’s tenth international venue after an ICC inspection.”Cricket Australia has been pleased to support the process of the stadium’s accreditation as an ICC-approved venue, because we want more venues around the country to have the capacity to host international cricket,” Cricket Australia’s Senior Manager – Cricket Operations, Sean Cary, said. “We were impressed with the facilities during the recent series between Australia A and South Africa A, and see a bright future for the stadium.”

The BCCI is looking at investigating whether any of its member units’ representatives have been feeding data to its opponents in a prolonged court battle regarding the IPL corruption scandal

Amol Karhadkar18-Nov-2014The BCCI is looking at investigating whether any of its member units’ representatives have been feeding data to the board’s opponents over the course of their prolonged court battle regarding the IPL corruption scandal.The possible move was discussed in detail on the sidelines of Tuesday’s working committee meeting in Chennai. It is understood that the idea was floated by an office-bearer during a dinner on Monday and was discussed threadbare by the time the 25 representatives who attended the meeting dispersed from Chennai.The BCCI regime strongly suspects that some of its members have been passing on confidential documents and information to Aditya Verma, the secretary of Cricket Association of Bihar, whose petition against the BCCI kicked off a lengthy legal fight. It is understood that the ruling dispensation suspects two former BCCI presidents who no longer hold a post in their respective state associations have been working as the informers for Verma.An internal probe, likely to be headed by secretary Sanjay Patel or treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry, is set to examine if it can find a trace of confidential information having been passed to outsiders. If found guilty, the BCCI will initiate disciplinary proceedings with the offenders.Verma’s petition in the Bombay High Court in June 2013 against BCCI’s inaction against Gurunath Meiyappan has led to a fierce court battle. As a result, despite having taken charge as the ICC chairman, N Srinivasan has been sidelined as the BCCI chief.

The ICC have sent out a document to its full council members as a move to amend rules pertaining to Associate and Affiliates nations

Peter Della Penna10-Jan-2015The ICC have sent out a document to its full council members as a move to amend rules pertaining to Associate and Affiliates nations. The amendment in rules will give the ICC the power to decide which among rival bodies get official recognition.* All members have been requested to respond to the resolution by January 22.Approval of such a move would have the greatest impact on the ongoing dispute between the USA Cricket Association and the American Cricket Federation.USACA had appeared set for a third suspension in a decade after it was put on notice in June for being in violation of Associate & Affiliate governance statute 3.1 which currently states that members must have a single, recognised cricket board. Member countries put on notice have one year to get their affairs in order, but should this resolution pass USA are less likely to be suspended.Avoiding the ban would allow USACA to have national team representation at ICC events in the immediate future, including the World T20 Qualifier to be played in Ireland and Scotland this summer. However, USACA would not be completely in the clear if the resolution gets approved.Through statute 3.1, which is to be amended, the ICC recognises a member board if it can provide a letter of support from their country’s National Olympic Committee. USACA and ACF are understood to have been pursuing that letter over the last 18 months from the USOC, but neither group has obtained it. In its absence, another change in language for statute 3.1 would give ICC the authority to determine which of multiple boards receives recognition in a country where a dispute between competing boards arises.According to the proposed changes, it is the ICC that would have final say over “the appropriate status, structure, recognition, membership and competence to be recognised by the ICC (at its absolute discretion) as the governing body responsible for the administration, management and development of cricket in the country.”The ICC felt the language of statute 3.1 “might cause some difficulties for Members, where the ‘sole’ governing body could be challenged if an alternative body existed in the same jurisdiction and sought also to claim governing body status.”So they circulated a document to its members for a review of the language. The document also emphasises that, “For the avoidance of doubt, there can only be one ICC Member from any individual country, and in the event of a dispute, the ICC retains absolute discretion to determine which body (if any) to recognise as the sole ICC Member in that country.”The ICC’s procedures also allow for a review of a cricket board’s status as an Associate Member “at any time either by their Regional development manager or the ICC Global development manager.”ESPNcricinfo contacted the ICC to find out if Americas regional development manager Ben Kavenagh or Global development manager Tim Anderson intend to make a review for USA’s status, but a request for comment went unreturned.A USACA source indicated that they would discuss their stance on the proposed revisions at a board meeting next week. Meanwhile, American Cricket Federation chief executive Jamie Harrison has sent out a letter to various members of the US cricket community in which he encourages players and leagues to abandon USACA in favor of the ACF.”The ICC will not intervene in USACA’s internal affairs, so long as they seem (on the surface) to line up with constitutional requirements,” Harrison wrote. “You can stay with USACA and continue to exhaust yourself, fighting with people who have always treated you like dirt; or, you can come help us build a better future together for American cricket – today.”Should the boards agree on the amendment of the statute there is also the potential for Switzerland’s readmission into the ICC fold. The Swiss Cricket Association was suspended in 2011 and then expelled from in 2012 after a rival governing body was formed, putting it in violation of statute 3.1 as it stands now.*05.00GMT, January 12: Errors in this article have been corrected.

Jammu & Kashmir are yet to get the best out of both their bowlers and batsmen, but they have the confidence of beating Mumbai to lift them, going into a tough challenge against defending champions Karnataka

Karthik Krishnaswamy in Hubli04-Jan-2015Karnataka’s batsmen have only managed one century all season. In their three first innings so far, their fifth wicket fell with the score at 97, 69 and 153. Jammu & Kashmir, meanwhile, have crossed 300 only once in four matches.And yet, the two teams occupy first and third places in the Group A points table. Karnataka have won all three of their matches. J&K beat Mumbai and took first-innings points against Baroda. The bowlers and the lower-middle-order batsmen have generally come good for both teams, and the returns of the top-order batsmen, to some extent, have been a reflection of the conditions they have played their matches in.”We’ve been playing on seaming wickets,” Karnataka coach J Arunkumar said, on the eve of his team’s game against J&K in Hubli. “I feel bad for the batsmen – only one hundred in three games.”In the end, it’s helping the team because we’ve been bowling the teams out twice. It’s not about getting big hundreds – it’s also about batting in challenging conditions. It’s just a matter of time. We’re bound to get good batting wickets and then the batsmen will feast on it.”Going purely by its appearance a day before the match, the pitch at the KSCA Stadium might not offer his batsmen – or those from J&K – any solace. But Vinay Kumar, Karnataka’s captain, didn’t expect it to favour the seamers unduly.”It’s a good wicket,” he said. “There is grass cover but they are saying that they will remove it tomorrow morning.”If that pans out, the pitch should play much like it did when it last hosted a last Ranji Trophy fixture, back in December 2013. There was bounce and just a bit of seam movement in the first two sessions, when Karnataka bowled Punjab out for 174, but it eased out thereafter, and the next two innings brought totals of 505 and 361, and three centuries.Regardless of conditions, J&K’s batting wears a fragile look going into the match, with Shubham Khajuria, their top run-getter this season, ruled out with a shoulder injury that he picked up during the game against Uttar Pradesh. With that in mind, it becomes critical that they get runs from Adil Reshi, Bandeep Singh and Hardeep Singh, who average 12.85, 20.57 and 24.00 this season. The three of them have featured in all four of J&K’s matches this season, but haven’t yet managed a single 50-plus score among them.The bowlers have done better by and large, but there are concerns about their two biggest names – fast bowler Samiullah Beigh averages 57.57 this season, and offspinner Parvez Rasool 58.66.Given those numbers, given the fact that J&K have only just come up from Group C, and given Karnataka’s Ranji Trophy record since the start of last season – 10 wins, four draws, and no defeats – J&K will do well to get anything out of this game. But their coach Sunil Joshi, who spent his formative cricketing years in Hubli and played 18 seasons for Karnataka, didn’t sound too fazed by the challenge, certainly not after his side’s opening-round win over Mumbai.”We are in a group where all the champions are there,” Joshi said. “It is a great opportunity for the [Jammu & Kashmir] players to showcase their talent against the champion sides.”[At the start of the season], I gave the players the example of Bangladesh having beaten Australia. Cricket is a funny game, we all know that. You play good cricket, good results will follow.”

A round-up of Ranji Trophy 2014-15 Group C matches played on January 14, 2015

ESPNcricinfo staff14-Jan-2015
ScorecardFile photo – Mohammad Kaif made his 19th first-class hundred•Sivaraman KittaMohammad Kaif made his 19th first-class century to give Andhra a 159-run first-innings lead over Tripura in Ongole. The hosts began the day on 97 for 4 in pursuit of Tripura’s 151 and Kaif and Ricky Bhui stretched their fifth-wicket partnership to 194. Manisankar Murasingh broke the stand in the 85th over, removing India Under-19 batsman Bhui for 87, his maiden first-class fifty. The seamer had Kaif dismissed leg-before in his next over as Andhra collapsed, losing their last six wickets for 48 to be bowled out for 301. However, Kaif’s 109 off 240 had already taken the hosts into a strong position. Kaif hit 16 fours and a six in his innings. Murasingh finished with 5 for 70 while Rana Dutta picked up three wickets. The Andhra opening bowlers DP Vijaykumar and Siva Kumar rocked Tripura, reducing them to 13 for 3 in 9.1 overs in the second innings.
ScorecardFifties from Dheeraj Jadhav and Tarjinder Singh took Assam to 393 in their first innings against Hyderabad. Jadhav and Tarjinder put on 109 for the fifth wicket and pushed the score past 300 before the latter fell in the 124th over. While Tarjinder made his 66 in 129 balls, Jadhav crawled to 74 off 259, and was ninth man out in the 155th over, stumped off legspinner Akash Bhandari. Syed Mohammad contributed 31 at No. 7 but there was little from the tail. Bhandari finished with three wickets, after which the hosts’ openers plodded to 35 in 19 overs.
ScorecardOnly about a third of the day’s play was possible in Delhi, during which Goa collapsed to 304 all out from 267 for 5. Services seamer Suraj Yadav took three of those five wickets. He started by having Darshan Misal caught behind for 76 after Goa resumed on 253 for 5 and ended the innings by dismissing Saurabh Bandekar for 84. Deepak Punia took care of the tail to finish with 3 for 62 while Suraj had 4 for 92. Gauresh Gawas hit back to remove the Services openers cheaply as the hosts ended on 28 for 2 in ten overs.
ScorecardNo play was possible due to rain on the second day in Dharamsala between Himachal Pradesh and Jharkhand.

After an action-packed opening day which saw heaps of wickets, a semblance of parity was restored at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on the second day of the semi-final between Karnataka and Mumbai

The Report by Amol Karhadkar in Bangalore26-Feb-2015
ScorecardAbhimanyu Mithun brought out a pleasing array of shots in his innings of 89•PTI After an action-packed opening day which saw heaps of wickets, a semblance of parity was restored at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on the second day of the semi-final between Karnataka and Mumbai. Nightwatchman Abhimanyu Mithun’s onslaught in the morning session helped Karnataka set Mumbai a challenging fourth-innings target of 445 but the visitors pulled things back as a late collapse gave them a slim chance of a win.Mumbai’s opening batsmen ensured their bowlers’ good work didn’t go to waste, batting solidly for 78 minutes and adding an unbroken 61. They need another 384 runs to upstage the defending champions and enter the final.Nayar discharged

Abhishek Nayar was discharged from the hospital on Thursday afternoon and will play a part in the match only if Mumbai are in with a chance to overhaul the stiff target.
The Mumbai allrounder had suffered a concussion while fielding on the opening day and was kept under observation. Doctors at the Hosmat Hospital in Bangalore have advised “two weeks’ rest” for Nayar. However, the Mumbai team management clarified that Nayar will remain with the team and will pad up if the batsmen excel like they did in the second innings against Delhi last week.
Karnataka had their share of injury woes on the second day as CM Gautam couldn’t take the field after straining a muscle while batting. In his absence, Robin Uthappa kept wicket during Mumbai’s second innings.

Mithun’s aggressive knock in the morning session gave Karnataka’s bowlers a large total to defend. Sent in as a nightwatchman on the first evening, after the home team lost both openers cheaply, Mithun batted as fluently as Robin Uthappa did on the first morning.Mithun, who usually bats in the top order for his club side in the KSCA League, didn’t waste an opportunity to bat up the order. His drives were as precise as a top-order batsman’s – a straight drive off Balwinder Sandhu early in the day was the standout stroke.Once he gained confidence, Mithun punished the Mumbai attack. Shortly after the drinks break, he overhauled his previous first-class best of 63 not out – scored at the same ground against Orissa in November 2010 – with another straight drive off Wilkin Mota. Mithun was set for his maiden first-class century but with the lunch break approaching, he tried an extravagant drive off Thakur only to have his stumps disturbed.Harmeet Singh deceived R Samarth in turn and flight off the fourth ball after the break but despite the quick wickets, Mumbai were soon staring down the barrel.Manish Pandey and Karun Nair, two of the most free-flowing batsmen on the domestic circuit, did not take long to get their eye in and started scoring boundaries at will.Sandhu got Nair to chase a wide one, and Tare didn’t falter behind the wickets. That wicket triggered the mini-collapse and from 222 for 4, Karnataka were reduced to 261 for 9. While Sandhu added Kunal Kapoor’s wicket to his kitty, Karnataka’s poor running between the wickets continued to haunt them as Manish Pandey was run-out after miscommunication with CM Gautam. Harmeet latched on to a full-blooded drive by Vinay Kumar off his own bowling, while Thakur accounted for Gautam – caught by a lunging Herwadakar at gully – to take his season’s wicket tally to 48.For the second day in a row – with the ninth wicket falling just before the scheduled tea break – the session was extended by up to half an hour. S Aravind hung on to let Shreyas Gopal display his prowess with the bat yet again. Gopal was driving the ball fluently but was eventually undone by Thakur’s pace before the break was taken.

Royal Challengers Bangalore have appeared to address a few issues in their team depth with their purchases in the auction, but their strategies and team combination will be tested against Kolkata Knight Riders

The Preview by Rachna Shetty10-Apr-2015Match factsSaturday, April 11, 2015
Start time 2000 IST (1430 GMT)3:14

Agarkar: De Villiers the biggest threat for Knight Riders

Big pictureA batting line-up that features AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli is an unlikely candidate for reinforcements but Royal Challengers Bangalore’s purchases during the 2015 auction – Dinesh Karthik, S Badrinath (along with the pre-season transfer of Manvinder Bisla) – showed just how badly the absence of strong Indian batsmen had affected the side.Those strategies and that depth, in both batting and bowling, will be tested for the first time when they take on Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens. The defending champions began their season with a win at home against Mumbai Indians, which stretched their streak of IPL wins to 10 games on the trot. They chased down a target of 169 efficiently, led by Gautam Gambhir’s aggression, but it’s their bowling attack that’s their forte. Knight Riders would have also taken notice of the dropped catches – Mumbai Indians were sloppier than them on the field on Wednesday but against the big-ticket Royal Challengers line-up, poor fielding could leave them with too much to catch up with.Royal Challengers have another test: all their purchases in the auction means the side will have to crack the code of their line-up fairly quickly in the tournament.How soon can Royal Challengers Bangalore’s investments start paying off?•BCCIWatch out forFor the second successive year, Dinesh Karthik was the second-most expensive buy at an IPL auction and comes into the tournament having enjoyed a good run of late. He finished the Ranji Trophy as the second-highest run-getter – behind Robin Uthappa, who is on the other side in this game – and in the IPL, will be expected to hold the middle and lower order together.Used primarily as a finisher last season, Knight Riders have decided to use Suryakumar Yadav as something of a floater in the line-up. The start was promising – evidenced from his 20-ball 46 against Mumbai Indians – but consistency and discipline will decide how successful the experiement eventually will be.Stats and trivia Gautam Gambhir’s fifty against Mumbai Indians helped him draw level with Suresh Raina on the list of batsmen with most fifty-plus scores – 24 – in the IPL Royal Challengers have beaten Knight Riders six times in the 14 games the two sides have played against each other in the IPL Virat Kohli has led Royal Challengers in 40 games and won 19 of thoseQuotes”We need to get our fielding standards up. In these kind of tournaments, when you drop dangerous players, and in those situations… So these things are important.”

A maiden century of high class by Jack Leaning had helped Yorkshire carve out a first-innings lead before three late wickets left Nottinghamshire in a tricky position

Paul Edwards at Trent Bridge21-Apr-2015
ScorecardJack Leaning’s century brought Yorkshire right back into the match•PA PhotosAt the start of the third day at Trent Bridge, it seemed that only a batting disaster comparable to Arthur Seaton’s drunken tumble down the steps of the White Horse Club in the opening pages of Alan Sillitoe’s would be sufficient to produce a result. That novel’s Nottingham setting made this curious simile more apt than absurd but it seemed for most of the three sessions that neither side would exhibit the batting frailties likely to give their side the scent of victory.A maiden century of high class by Jack Leaning had helped Yorkshire carve out a paltry first-innings lead of 13, only for the home side’s openers, Steven Mullaney and Brendan Taylor, to wipe out that deficit in predictable comfort. Indeed, Nottinghamshire were 46 for 0 when, for the first time in this game, top order wickets feel in a clump.Rather in the manner they displayed at Worcester a week ago, Andrew Gale’s seamers showed that accuracy and a little movement could earn glorious rewards. Debutant Matthew Fisher struck the first blow when he brought the ball back just enough to have Mullaney lbw for 20. Six overs later, Tim Bresnan, so often a man to inflict crucial damage, moved one away from Alex Hales and the first-innings double-centurion nicked it to Andrew Hodd.Ten minutes later, Brendan Taylor’s loose half-drive proved an inadequate response to a Jack Brooks delivery which came back off the seam. The off stump was plucked out and Brooks careened away in joy. Wednesday’s first session should be worth watching. So might the second. And you might be well advised not to miss the third either.And yet, even when the evening’s drama is taken into account, this sun-dappled Tuesday in Nottingham will be remembered for the batting of 21-year-old Leaning, whose first Championship hundred proclaimed authority and command. That Yorkshire’s makeshift top order did not give Chris Read’s bowlers a hope of victory is explained by the century made by Alex Lees on the second day and by the rather better one scored by Leaning on the third. It might be observed that we did not see a Yorkshire collapse because we were treated to a great deal of Leaning.But, heaven preserve us, a treat it was. Leaning began the day with 3 against his name, and when he was brilliantly stumped by Read off Patel at just after 3.30pm he had added 113 more runs, most of them scored with rare accomplishment and understated style. He had batted for 259 minutes and faced 198 balls, eleven of which he hit to the boundary and one of which he stroked over it.Helped principally by Rich Pyrah, with whom he added 111 for the fifth wicket and the hard-hitting “if it’s up, it’s off” Bresnan, with whom he put on 69 for the seventh, Leaning had taken Yorkshire to within one run off Nottinghamshire’s first-innings tally when he came down the wicket to drive Patel and made his first glaringly conspicuous error. And yes, his innings probably merits another line of gold paint on the honours board of the Yorkshire Cricket Academy, whose graduates seem to be queueing up for first-team opportunities like talented X-Factor contestants or, for an older generation this one, Monty Python’s gasmen.On the evening when Yorkshire officials revealed that Peter Moores is considering a request that Adil Rashid be released from the England’s tour of the West Indies in time for him to play against Warwickshire on Sunday, one was tempted to wonder what Gale’s team might be if the four players currently not needed for Test duty were all available. Who would be dropped?Not Leaning, that’s for certain. Read’s bowlers performed capably and well on the third day but he met them with the broadest of blades and the coolest of heads. Leaning has a presence at the crease which probably cannot be coached. Most people notice the signature shots like his pull through midwicket but it is the certainty and precision of his footwork which enables him to drive, cut and, when the opportunity presents itself, hit sixes over long-on, as he did off Patel.The bowler probably recognised the quality of that shot and went back to his mark. By the end of the innings Patel’s figures of 4 for 102 were a tribute to his persistence and his willingness to do some heavy lifting. Harry Gurney turned up for work too and his three wickets included the first of the day when Gale edged him to slip.Yet this day belonged to Leaning, who learned much of his cricket at York CC. They may have raised a glass to him at the club’s Clifton Park home when they heard the news of his hundred and it was good to hear Leaning himself say how pleasant it was to get his first century at Trent Bridge. For York, like Nottinghamshire on a different plane, is a proper cricket club. And in this spring of national reviews and studious navel-gazing, the truths proclaiming the quality of English game should not be forgotten.

Mark Wallace and Niall O’Brien both took county records from a stalemate at Grace Road

Press Association15-Apr-2015Glamorgan 513 for 9 dec (Rudolph 111, Bragg 120) and 227 for 7 (Cooke 81) drew with Leicestershire 435 (Eckersley 147, Robson 83, Carter 4-95) and 141 for 3 (Cosgrove 59*)
ScorecardMark Wallace (left) was one of two keepers to have a record day (file picture)•Getty ImagesMark Wallace only managed eight runs against Leicestershire at Grace Road, but it was enough to bring up a notable statistical achievement as he became the first Glamorgan wicketkeeper to reach 10,000 first-class runs.There was a Leicestershire record, too. When Ollie Freckingham snared Graham Wagg he gave Niall O’Brien his fifth catch of the innings and ninth of the game.As for the match itself, Glamorgan’s Championship game against Leicestershire ended in a draw as they found the bottom club for the past two seasons in resilient frame of mind.Earlier, Chris Cooke continued his impressive early-season form by adding an unbeaten half-century to his first-innings 48 as Glamorgan batted their way towards a position of safety, allowing them to declare on 227 for 7 and setting the hosts a victory target of 306.At 104 for 5, that security was not entirely assured. Colin Ingram hung his bat out at a wide delivery from Ollie Freckingham and edged a catch behind. Soon afterwards, Wallace, also edged a catch to the wicketkeeper, this time off Ben Raine.Glamorgan’s victory hopes were boosted when Dan Redfern was dismissed without a run on theboard, Graham Wagg having him well caught at second slip by Dean Cosker, before Craig Meschede induced first innings centurion Ned Eckersley to edge an outswinger – again to Cosker.Cosker’s left-arm spin did prise out Angus Robson, the opener leaving a ball that just clipped off-stump, but Neil Pinner impressed his new skipper with an unbeaten 42 before Cosgrove and Rudolph shook hands with a maximum of 12 overs remaining.Cosgrove said: `”Every time we got challenged we fought back, we came up with the goods, and I couldn’t have asked more. We’re going to be aggressive this year and take games on, but from none for two chasing 300 in 50 overs on a last-day track we just had to bat some time, and we did that really well.`”If they’d set us 280 it would have been a reasonable chase – but that’s the way they played all game, a little bit negative.”Glamorgan’s head coach Toby Radford said: “I think over the four days we played some excellent cricket – to get 500 in the first innings was great with two centurions in Jacques Rudolph and Will Bragg. With three wickets down early in their second innings, we thought we had a real sniff.”