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Division 2, Bristol, August 30 - September 02, 2021, County Championship
327 & 129
(T:266) 191 & 267/4

Gloucester won by 6 wickets

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Graeme van Buuren, Ryan Higgins give Gloucestershire sniff of remarkable win

Tail-end resistance and Northants collapse brings hosts back into the contest

ECB Reporters' Network
01-Sep-2021
Graeme van Buuren of Gloucestershire batting, County Championship Division Two, Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire, Bristol, September 25, 2019

Graeme van Buuren marshalled the tail to set up a Gloucestershire turnaround  •  Getty Images

Northamptonshire 327 and 92 for 7 (Higgins 3-26) lead Gloucestershire 191 (van Buuren 56, Procter 5-42) by 228 runs
Ryan Higgins led a Gloucestershire charge on third afternoon at Bristol as the home side came storming back into the match as Northamptonshire closed 92 for 7, leading by 228.
Higgins took 3 for 26 and Tom Price 2 for 22 as the Glosters kept themselves alive in a game they looked well out of.
Graeme van Buuren made 56 as superb resistance from Gloucestershire's tail had earlier held up Northants to save the follow-on before they were eventually bowled out for 191.
The rear-guard, which saw No. 10 Matt Taylor make 24 from 97 balls and Jared Warner 10 from a 82 deliveries, almost delivered a batting point but it certainly wrested back the initiative.
The bowlers seized upon the momentum to leave Northants' second innings in tatters.
Price led the charge, striking in the fourth over as Emilio Gay played into his stumps trying to defend. Price added Rob Keogh palpably lbw to a full ball that nipped back.
Higgins trapped Luke Procter lbw from round the wicket - with a suspicion that the left-hander had got outside the line of off stump. His later spell removed Harry Gouldstone, so impressive in the first innings, but who made only 7 before playing around a straight delivery and losing his middle stump.
Adam Rossington was also bowled but this to a lovely delivery that swung away to hit off stump. He made 18 and there will be no captain to the rescue this time for the visitors.
Ricardo Vasconcelos was also bowled. He moved in the pleasant way of his to 26 but played loosely outside off stump to one from Matt Taylor that seamed in. And Saif Zaib made 14 before he was squared up by Warner and edged behind.
It was slippery stuff in the gloaming and followed some extraordinary resistance from the Gloucestershire tail.
Resuming 90 for 6, replying to 327, the home side were in danger of conceding a huge lead.
Zafar Gohar quickly fell to Procter for seven but the resistance began with an eighth-wicket stand of 45 between Price, who lasted 54 balls for his 16 and van Buuren.
The No. 6 resumed on 19 and edged Procter through the slips for the day's opening boundary before clipping him through midwicket and cutting Jack White through point.
His second fifty of the summer came in 121 balls and helped give Gloucestershire a sniff of a remarkable turnaround.

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