Glamorgan end with a flourish
Mark Pennell at Canterbury
15-Sep-2011
Glamorgan wrapped up an eight-wicket success over Kent with a session
to spare to secure their second Championship away win of the
season, but this time under the floodlights at Canterbury.
Chasing 129 for victory in this first championship game to be played
with a pink ball and as a day/night fixture, Glamorgan sailed to
victory courtesy of skipper Alviro Petersen with an unbeaten 70 from 54
balls and an equally brisk19 from as many deliveries from first-
inning top scorer Stewart Walters.
The visitors lost Gareth Rees to a slip catch by Alex Blake with 19 on
the board then Will Bragg (30) was comprehensively bowled by Matt
Coles. It proved to be Kent's final success of the game, however, as Walters
and Petersen then combined to add the 34 runs required for a
comprehensive and deserved win.
Kent had started the day on 148 for 5 and still trailing by 38 in
terms of the game overall, but the pink ball, the floodlights and the
early-evening dew were all unknown quantities. In many ways the result rested with Kent's player-of-the-season and No6 bat Azhar Mahmood who, after resuming on 31, might have batted the Welsh out of the equation.
As it was Mahmood plundered seven fours and a six on his way to an eye-
catching 70 before he toe-ended an attempted cut shot to the keeper
against the occasional military-medium seam bowling of Will Bragg. It
was Bragg's maiden first class wicket.
Though Kent's acting captain Geraint Jones, playing against his first
county, held down one end for a stoic 79 in almost three hours, wickets
fell cheaply around him as Kent finally succumbed for 312.
Veteran spinner Dean Cosker was easily the pick of the visiting attack
with 4 for 106 as Glamorgan went home with a win leaving Kent to
contemplate their worst championship finish since 1995.
