Derbyshire Coach Welch Frustrated At Draw

27 Apr 2016 | Cricket
Derbyshire\'s elite performance director Graeme Welch was left frustrated after 138 overs were wiped out by a combination of rain, snow, sleet and hail at the 3aaa Count Ground this week.

Welch saw his Derbyshire charges go toe-to-toe with Glamorgan in a close game of cricket, which was cut short by bad weather.

He said: "It's not very often you see snow nearly at the start of May and Jacques Rudolph said it was the coldest he's ever played in."

After Glamorgan were bowled all out for 377, Derbyshire replied with 344 before Glamorgan reached 87/2 when the captains Hamish Rutherford and Rudolph shook hands for a draw.

Welch added: "I think they probably got 50 or 60 runs too many in the first innings but we did well to get what we did with Andy Carter smacking it around and I think if the weather hadn't intervened, it would have been a very good game on a very good cricket pitch."

The result leaves Derbyshire on 19 County Championship points from two games, while Glamorgan have 17.