Match scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nTitle hopefuls Glamorgan hold the upper hand after a stop-start opening day against Leicestershire.<\/p>\n
In the 47 overs possible as heavy afternoon showers forced two long stoppages, the impressively consistent visiting bowling attack had their bottom-of-the-table opponents struggling at 113-7.<\/p>\n
Each of the five bowlers used took at least one wicket, with Timm van der Gugten claiming 2-43.<\/p>\n
After opting to bowl, Glamorgan reduced Leicestershire to 63-4 at lunch on a two-tone pitch.<\/p>\n
In an injury-hit line-up, Rishi Patel and Sheridon Gumbs survived for the first hour.<\/p>\n
But then Patel and new man Rehan Ahmed were caught in the slips in consecutive overs.<\/p>\n
Ahmed was a first victim in Glamorgan colours for Ray Toole, a South African-born left-arm seamer who has joined for the remainder of the campaign following a successful season with Central Districts in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
Gumbs, somewhat comically run out after changing direction twice when chancing an always-risky single to gully, was the next casualty, before Hamza Shaikh – on his Championship debut for Leicestershire – feathered a catch behind against Ben Kellaway’s off-spin.<\/p>\n
Leicestershire lost their fifth wicket when Nick Kelly edged behind.<\/p>\n
But, having been off the field for the best part of four hours in total, another 12 overs were possible before the close – and Andy Gorvin pinned Jonny Tattersall in front, before Ben Mike fell to Van der Gugten with two balls left in the day.<\/p>\n
Glamorgan, who last won the title in 1997, were promoted as runners-up to Leicestershire in Division Two, but have fared much the better in the top flight.<\/p>\n
And their June victory over Surrey – the Championship’s dominant force until last season – demands that this year’s challenge be taken seriously.<\/p>\n
They sit 35 points ahead of One -Day Cup finalists Leicestershire, who still hope for a relegation-defying end to their campaign.<\/p>\n
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network, supported by Rothesay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Uptonsteel Grace Road, Leicester (day one) Leicestershire: 113-7 (Van der Gugten 2-43) Glamorgan:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-744611","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\/744611","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=744611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}