The game between Glamorgan and Hampshire in the Royal London One-Day Cup was abandoned at the SSE SWALEC.
The Welsh county won the toss and fielded an unchanged team from Friday night, with Jacques Rudolph and Will Bragg opening the batting against the Hampshire side who yesterday defeated Middlesex by ten wickets at the Ageas Bowl. Fidel Edwards and Jackson Bird opened the bowling for the visitors, and the latter made an initial incision as he bowled Bragg with a delivery which jagged back into the southpaw.
With the total on 3, Colin Ingram duly made his way to the middle having become on Friday night the first-ever batsmen to score centuries in successive one-day games for the county in List A cricket, and with over 230 runs to his name already this week at Cardiff, he began in assertive mode, punching his first delivery through the covers before drilling Edwards through point for four.
Ingram also pulled a short ball from Bird to the leg-side ropes before twice driving Edwards through extra cover for further fours. Ingram survived a run-out chance in Chris Wood's opening over but the throw from Jimmy Adams missed the stumps with the in-form batsman well out of his ground. But with the total on 28, Rudolph departed in identical fashion to Friday night as he miscued a drive against Bird into mid-off's hands.
Aneurin Donald joined Ingram and started with a single to third man before Edwards switched to the River End and nearly had Ingram caught at mid-off. It proved to be a dramatic over as Donald then sparred at a rising ball and edged just over the outstretched hands of James Vince at slip. Some deftly placed glides and swift running saw Glamorgan reach 50 in the 17
th over, before Ingram added another four by inside-edging an expansive drive to fine-leg against an exasperated Edwards.
With the scorer on 59, Donald swatted a short ball into the hands of Michael Carberry at mid-wicket who after completing the catch was poleaxed by Joe Gatting who also was sliding in in an attempt to catch the ball. Fortunately, neither fielder was injured as Chris Cooke began by edging Edwards through the slip cordon who again looked to the heavens as the ball sped to third man for four.
Hampshire then switched to spin as Liam Dawson's left-arm twirl was introduced in the 21
st over, before Mason Crane, the teenage leg-spinner, came on at the River End. Ingram continued his week-long masterclass of how to bat on a sluggish surface as he watchfully pushed the ball around, with Cooke also working the ball carefully into gaps. Ingram then used good footwork to go down the wicket to straight drive Crane for four, before driving Dawson for a couple of two's to complete an 80-ball fifty.
But there was then the clatter of wickets as firstly with the total on 95, Cooke miscued a sweep against Crane and Adams at short extra-cover held the skier before three balls later, Ingram swept Dawson in the air to backward square-leg where Will Smith held a fine low catch running forward. The left-arm spinner then claimed another scalp as four balls later Mark Wallace chopped a long hop onto his stumps.as the total became 96/6 and after four byes, and a couple of singles, it became 102/7 as Meschede was caught at second slip propping forward to Dawson.
David Lloyd and Graham Wagg duly joined forces with the former pulling Crane for six before striking successive balls from the youngster for four to long-off and mid-wicket. In the leg-spinner's final over, Lloyd drilled him for another boundary as Glamorgan reached 141/7 at the end of the second powerplay. But rather than revert back to seam, Hampshire continued with spin at the Cathedral Road End as Will Smith came on for the 41
st over and with his first delivery he bowled Lloyd for 33.
Dean Cosker joined Wagg who deftly leg-glanced Smith before Edwards returned at the River End and was clattered through extra cover for four by the gleeful Wagg as the 150 came up. Another rasping drive by Wagg against Smith struck Cosker on the right fore-arm, and after treatment from the physio, he valiantly resumed as Wagg attempted to get his team as close to the 200-mark as possible by biffing Wood through cover but next cover he was bowled by Smith. Michael Hogan and Cosker then took the total to 182/9 with some well-placed singles.
Hogan and Wagg then opened the bowling against Adams and Carberry who had shared an unbroken century stand yesterday against Middlesex. Adams duly struck the first boundary as he on-drove Wagg in his first over before Carberry punched Hogan through extra cover for four.
It proved to be an eventful over as Adams survived a run-out scare but the shy at the wicket by Cooke just missed, before Carberry was struck on the chin and required treatment. He then nearly spooned a ball from Wagg to mid-on as Rudolph employed an attacking field of two slips plus a short-leg. Adams then clipped Hogan to mid-wicket and backward square-leg for a pair of fours before Adams was struck on the helmet. The umpires and captains then had a lengthy consultation which also involved Cricket Liaison Officer Tony Pigott, before the umpires abandoned the match because of a dangerous pitch.
There will be a full refund for those who purchased a ticket for the contest and further details will appear on the Glamorgan website about how to claim a refund.