Kiran Carlson thumped his maiden County Championship double century as Glamorgan oppressed Hampshire at Utilita Bowl.<\/p>\n
Carlson had previously topped out on 191 and 192 in first-class cricket but took full advantage of a batting pitch with a highly entertaining innings. His 209 is the highest score in Division One this season.<\/p>\n
He put on 318 runs with Zain ul Hassan \u2013 who ended with a massive career-best of 143 \u2013 which was just 10 runs shy of Glamorgan’s all-time highest second wicket partnership.<\/p>\n
Sean Dickson also fired a half-century as Glamorgan pulled out on 536, before rain delays paused the Welsh side’s momentum.<\/p>\n
Cardiff-born Carlson had been imperious from the moment he arrived at the crease just before lunch on day one, with Ul Hassan quietly holding the fort from the other end.<\/p>\n
The pair looked immovable, and for a combined hour after hour, they were.<\/p>\n
Carlson scored over a thousand runs to help Glamorgan back into Division One for the first time in 21 years and has found the top tier just as suitable for his style.<\/p>\n
Now captain, having taken over from Kent-bound Sam Northeast, he debuted in Division One with a half-century before a 95 last week proved he was at home.<\/p>\n
His double century was never dull, plastered with 28 boundaries to all angles, not just the tiny leg side boundary, as he dominated a weary bowling attack.<\/p>\n
Hampshire had got day one very wrong, starting with deciding to bowl first on what turned out to be the perfect batting pitch, which was exacerbated by inconsistent bowling.<\/p>\n
The main thing that changed for them on day two was luck turned on their side.<\/p>\n
Fletcha Middleton broke the mammoth Ul Hassan and Carlson partnership with a direct hit with one stump to aim at from deep point, and then Codi Yusuf found a springy part of the wicket to have Ben Kellaway caught behind for a duck \u2013 having waited almost six playing minutes with his pads on.<\/p>\n
It also meant Hampshire had a bowling point for their long hard day and an half grinding in the field, whereas Glamorgan ended up with four batting points in the 110 overs.<\/p>\n
From then on, the hosts had to wait for wickets to land on their lap, as Glamorgan upped the ante ahead of a declaration.<\/p>\n
Carlson was finally defeat when he chipped to short cover before Colin Ingram scored quickly before picking out deep square when not fully committing to a flick.<\/p>\n
The part-time spin of Tom Prest had Chris Cooke caught behind and Timm van der Gugten swishing straight up just after lunch.<\/p>\n
Sean Dickson gave Hampshire one last salvo of chasing leather with a 61-ball fifty, brought up when one fielder kicked the ball into another and conceded a boundary \u2013 it summed up 132 overs of pure domination from Glamorgan.<\/p>\n
It was almost a mercy for them when Glamorgan declared shortly after on 536 \u2013 their highest score against Hampshire \u2013 at 14:00 BST.<\/p>\n
Hampshire’s openers Nick Gubbins and Toby Albert were then given an uncomfortable spell where they were unsure of how long they would have to survive before the forecasted rain arrived.<\/p>\n
The bowling they faced was also uncomfortable as ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ followed most deliveries, with Van der Gugten and Jamie McIlroy probing the fourth stump line.<\/p>\n
The rain eventually arrived at 14:35 BST, after six and a half overs.<\/p>\n
There were two brief returns, which also went wicketless as Hampshire confidently reached 58.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiran Carlson thumped his maiden County Championship double century as Glamorgan oppressed Hampshire at Utilita Bowl. Carlson had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-645547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}