da aposte e ganhe： To take 12 wickets on the final day was a fine achievement by Robert Croft`s team,and all after 145 overs had been lost on the first three days of the match
da leao： Andrew Hignell07-Jun-2003Glamorgan recorded their second successive Championship victory of the season, defeating Derbyshireby an emphatic margin of an innings and 70 runs – their first win over the Peakitesat Swansea for 33 years – and the Welsh county have now secured 40 bonus points in theirlast two Championship gamesTo take 12 wickets on the final day was a fine achievement by Robert Croft`s team,and all after 145 overs had been lost on the first three days of the match. Croft, whotop-scored with 84 in Glamorgan`s first innings, returned match figures of 8/110, and it wasthe acting Glamorgan captain who finished off the Derbyshire first innings after just sixand a half overs on Saturday morning. Dean Cosker made the initial breakthrough, dismissingKevin Dean leg-before and then Croft had Tom Lungley caught by Cosker as Derbyshire`s firstinnings ended on 209, with Glamorgan 186 runs ahead.Croft had no hesitation in enforcing the follow-on, and the Glamorgan team quickly returnedto the field, eager to make a breakthrough with the new ball. Even the most optimistic of Glamorgan fanscould not have forecast the dramatic events that would follow before lunch, as Derbyshire lurched to 15-5 asMichael Kasprowicz and Alex Wharf demolished their top order with a high-class spell of new ball bowling.Kasprowicz dismissed Michael Di Venuto and Chris Basssano at a cost of just 14 runs in his opening 7 overspell, whilst Wharf dismissed Andrew Gait, Mohammad Kaif and Dominic Hewson in his new ball salvo whichsaw the Yorkshireman return with an analysis of 7-3-12-3. None of the first five Derbyshire batsmen had got into double figures, but Luke Sutton and Graeme Welch then begana defiant rearguard action as the spinners came on, and Derbyshire took lunch at 30 for 5.With Dominic Cork unable to bat owing to an Achilles injury, the afternoon session began with the Derbyshirebatsmen surrounded by a posse of close fielders as the Glamorgan spinners went for the kill. Derbyshire`sresistance only lasted for an hour, with Cosker bowling Sutton after a stubborn 53 run stand for thesixth wicket. Croft then winkled out Welch and Dean, and when Cosker bowled Lungley for 29, Derbyshire had beendismissed for 116 with a minimum of 36 overs still remaining and despite the vagaries of the weather earlierin the week, Glamorgan had deservedly secured their second Championship victory of the summer.Robert Croft was very upbeat after this fine victory – “to excuse the pun, I feel thatwe`ve turned the tide down here at St.Helen`s, and when we resume our Championship campaignin three weeks time, I`m confident that we can continue our winning run. This game was a fantastic teamperformance, and today the seam bowlers set it up brilliantly before lunch,allowing Dean Cosker and I to finish things afterwards and to bring back memories ofDon Shepherd and Jim Pressdee spinning Glamorgan to victory at Swansea.”
