Gloucestershire had added 31 to their overnight score for the cost of the three remaining wickets, an outcome which appeared to hearten Worcestershire in their own pursuit of runs.<\/p>\n
Dan Lategan (33) and Jake Libby (29) put on 65 for the first wicket, before Lategan was adjudged to have been leg before from the bowling of Williams (2-33).<\/p>\n
The Gloucestershire quick followed his first strike up with another breakthrough in his very next over when also nailing Libby in front, with a ball which kept low.<\/p>\n
Having made in-roads, Gloucestershire reduced Worcestershire to 87-3 when the impressive Ahmed – whose figures read 12-3-23-1 at the close of play – caused Gareth Roderick to chop onto his own stumps.<\/p>\n
Worcestershire, whose batting has suffered in various forms this season, required grit from the middle order – and it was delivered by Hose and D’Oliveira.<\/p>\n
The pair put on a stoic partnership which lasted 221 deliveries, a crucial stand in the context of the match which was concocted with patience, discipline and concentration.<\/p>\n
Hose claimed his fourth first-class half-century of the season from 116 deliveries before – and just as the duo might have been thinking about Worcestershire’s overnight total – he was castled by Charlesworth when attempting to pull through the line.<\/p>\n
Brookes, the next man in, failed to get off the mark from any of the first 18 deliveries he faced, before the all-rounder clipped the 19th away without much fuss to the backward square leg boundary. He will return to the crease on Sunday, but his skipper will not.<\/p>\n
For the otherwise imperturbable D’Oliveira perished in the penultimate over of the day when he edged Graeme van Buuren to opposing captain Cameron Bancroft at first slip, a wicket which may just have swung this game back towards the direction of Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire had added 31 to their overnight score for the cost of the three remaining wickets, an outcome…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}