Glamorgan edge Somerset in historic home win
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Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day four)
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Somerset 354: Abell 86; Norton 3-75 & 157: Abell 71; Norton 4-61, van der Gugten 3-25, Hadley 3-28
Glamorgan 205: Kellaway 59; Pretorius 3-50 & 285-8: Dickson 76, Tribe 52, Hadley 50*; Pretorius 4-74, Overton 3-60
Glamorgan (19 pts) beat Somerset (6 pts) by 2 wickets
Glamorgan battled their way to a historic first ever home triumph in Division One as they pulled off an unlikely two-wicket win over Somerset.
Their heroes were Sean Dickson, who hit 76 against the county who let him go last season, and nightwatchman Ryan Hadley, who made 50 not out and faced more balls in the match than in his previous 19 first-class games.
It was an agonising run-chase at times as Somerset's impressive quartet of seamers made Glamorgan fight for everything, with Craig Overton (3-60) bowling superbly on the final day.
The result, after an absorbing game, marks Glamorgan's second successive win and Somerset's second loss.
Glamorgan had previously won only four matches in the top flight, all away from home.
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Resuming on 140-5, Glamorgan's overnight pair of night-watchman Hadley and former Somerset player Dickson ground along slowly, playing and missing fairly regularly as many had done before them over the course of the game.
The pace quartet of Lewis Gregory, Jake Ball, Migael Pretorius and Craig Overton kept the pressure on as they reeled off the maidens, and on one occasion Somerset thought they had won an lbw verdict from umpire Paul Pollard, only for the official to adjust his hat instead.
Hadley, a man who arrived in Wales with a first-class batting average under four, hung on with a mixture of good judgement and good fortune under the new floodlights, now allowed for Championship action for the first time on the ground.
Meanwhile Dickson defied his former team-mates stoically until the arrival of the new ball, which saw him crash two fours off a Gregory over and three boundaries from Overton to take his side to 202-5 at lunch.
Dickson reached a cagey 50 off 99 balls, but was dropped at slip off Ball shortly afterwards as he and Hadley eked out the runs.
The stand was worth 114 by the time Overton won an lbw shout against the redoubtable Dickson, who had faced 154 balls and struck 10 fours.
Chris Cooke survived an impassioned appeal in the same over, but not another shout from Pretorius shortly afterwards with 28 runs still needed as Somerset revived their fading hopes.
Hadley hooked a mighty maximum over deep square-leg, only the second of his first-class career, before tensions rose as a caught-behind appeal was rejected.
Glamorgan reduced the target to 14 by tea, but Overton removed Timm van der Gugten for six to prolong the drama.
A crunching straight-drive from Hadley got them within a shot of victory, but he faced another ferocious lbw appeal from Pretorius before Hadley reached a hugely unlikely 50 with the winning boundary off the 231st delivery he faced.
Glamorgan travel to Warwickshire and Somerset host Sussex in the next round starting on Friday, 15 May.