Zafar Gohar spins Gloucestershire to 10-wicket victory over Glamorgan

Guests make mild paintings of ultimate day in Cardiff as Zafar claims 6-43 from 18 devastating overs

Gloucestershire 419 (Dent 75, Value 71, van Buuren 65) and 15 for 0 (Dent 11*, Hammond 4*) beat Glamorgan 309 (Byrom 78, Lloyd 73, Rutherford 62) and 124 (Gohar 6-43) via 10 wickets

It took Gloucestershire a trifling 78 mins to shine off Glamorgan at the fourth and ultimate day in their LV= Insurance coverage County Championship Department 2 fit at Sophia Gardens and head house with 22 issues to transport into 2nd within the desk.

The Welsh county resumed on 57 for six, nonetheless 43 runs in the back of the guests, they usually had been clearly intent on no longer falling to a 3rd successive defeat via an innings. The in a single day batsmen, Dan Douthwaite and Andrew Salter, did not hang out as they tried to near the space and drive Gloucestershire to bat once more.

However his flourish used to be all too temporary and Gohar took his fourth wicket of the innings when he trapped Salter lbw for 19. Simply 14 balls later, Ruaidhri Smith become his 5th sufferer as Glamorgan slumped to 94 for 8.

Smith tried a opposite sweep off the left-arm spinner and located himself bowled round his legs having added best 4 runs. Now it used to be only a case of whether or not the house facet’s tail may haul them over the road to forestall every other embarrassing innings defeat.

Douthwaite used to be the following to fall, bowled via Higgins as he become the Gloucestershire seamer’s fiftieth championship sufferer of the summer time, and that left Timm van der Gugten and Michael Hogan wanting to attain 8 runs to make Gloucestershire pad up once more.

To their credit score, they placed on 22 for the overall wicket, the third-highest partnership of the innings as Glamorgan moved to 124. Gohar in spite of everything got rid of Van der Gugten to finish with 6 from 43 from 18 devastating overs, even supposing no longer ahead of the house batsman had hit him for 2 giant sixes.

On a kind of he used to be stuck via Higgins as he ran in opposition to the rope, however then failed to forestall. When it took place once more, Higgins took a good looking catch and threw it over his shoulder for Graeme van Buuren to finish the dismissal and go away Gloucestershire with a goal of 15 runs to win the sport.