Hogan takes 4/38 as Glamorgan defeat Derbyshire by 106 runs

It's twenty-two years since Glamorgan last defeated Derbyshire in a County Championship match at Cardiff, with their last victory coming in September 1992, during the final match of the season with Robert Croft claiming 6/49. It had been a summer when the Welsh county, led by Alan Butcher and subsequently Matthew Maynard, had been bolstered by the presence of West Indian legend Viv Richards. It was also a year that saw the Olympics staged in Barcelona, John Major in residence in Number 10 Downing Street and the Grand National at Aintree won by Carl Llewellyn aboard Party Politics.

Twenty two year later, there is currently a lot of party politics taking place north of the border, but as far as events are concerned at the SWALEC Stadium, the match was evenly poised with Glamorgan entering the third day of the contest with a lead of 224 runs and five wickets still remaining, with their progress yesterday evening having been stifled during a couple of lively spells by Wayne White who, on loan from Lancashire, claimed four wickets for his native county.

This had given Derbyshire hopes of maintaining their winning sequence against Glamorgan - which covers their last five meetings - and Mark Footitt struck an early blow as with the fifth delivery of the morning he jagged a ball back into David Lloyd as he became another l.b.w. victim. Mark Wallace duly joined Cosker who struck the day's first four as he cover drove Tony Palladino, before doing the same next over against Footitt. The left-armer was then drilled off the back foot through extra cover by Wallace, but shortly afterwards Cosker became the twelfth batsman to depart l.b.w. as Palladino claimed his first wicket of the innings.

166/7 then became 172/8 as Wallace drove a ball from Footitt straight to Ben Slater at short extra cover. Four runs later Kieran Bull edged Footitt to second slip before Michael Hogan struck a full toss from the bowler through extra cover for four. But next over he miscued another drive against Palladino with Chesney Hughes, the substitute fielder completing the catch at mid-on as Glamorgan having lost 5/36 in 13.5 overs were dismissed for 181.

This left Derbyshire with a target of 261 to win with 176 overs remaining in the contest, including a forty minute spell before lunch. Hogan thought that he had claimed an early scalp with his third delivery, but Billy Godleman survived the appeal for a catch behind the wicket. But Slater was not so fortunate as he shouldered arms to Wagg and had his off stump sent cartwheeling out of the ground. With his side on 4/1 Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen joined Godleman and saw the visitors to lunch.

Derbyshire resumed after lunch requiring a further 245 to win as Michael Hogan was joined in the attack by Jim Allenby, and after a sequence of maiden overs, Hogan trapped Godleman leg before. 18/2 saw Cheteshwar Pujara make his way to the wicket, but the man with three first-class triple hundreds to his name lasted just six balls as, without a run to his name, he chipped a ball straight back to a delighted Hogan.

The parsimonious Allenby continued his accurate spell at the River End and beat the outside of Wayne Madsen's bat on several occasions before Hogan appeared to jar his left ankle and departed the field for treatment. This resulted in the return of Graham Wagg who was scythed to third man by Wes Durston, who then almost edged Allenby to second slip, whilst next over Madsen almost did the same against Wagg to Cosker in the gully as the home bowlers continued to extract some lateral movement from the surface.

But the runs started to come as Durston on-drove Wagg for four before under-edging a cut to fine leg for another boundary, whilst Madsen also clipped Allenby to mid-wicket for four. A further four came as Durston nurdled Wagg to the vacant third man position but the introduction of David Lloyd's seamers at the River End brought an end to the fourth wicket stand as Madsen was rapped on the pads by Lloyd's fifth delivery and became another l.b.w. victim.

64/4 then became 68/5 with Lloyd claiming a second wicket as Alex Hughes edged a ball down the leg-side and was well caught by Mark Wallace. Durston responded by cutting Lloyd for four but Allenby returned and rapped Gareth Cross on the pads right in front of the stumps, with the batsman walking off, knowing his fate, before the umpire had raised his finger!

85/6 saw Wayne White join Durston and he drilled Lloyd through backward point shortly before Durston completed his half-century from 69 balls with another deft single, But shortly after the hundred had come up, Allenby bowled White. Hogan briefly returned at the River End and was struck for a couple of fours by Durston, before being replaced by the spin of Dean Cosker as he switched to the Cathedral Road End.

Durston added another four to his tally as he swept Cosker for four, but Hogan's switch did the trick as Durston, on 72 edged into Wallace's gloves as Derbyshire slipped further to 122/8.

Resuming after tea on 129/8, Derbyshire still required a further 132 runs to win and Tony Palladino clipped the first ball from Graham Wagg to mid-wicket for four, but Michael Hogan struck with his second delivery as David Wainwright edged into Mark Wallace's gloves. With Mark Footitt as his partner, Palladino cover drove and hooked Wagg for successive fours, before glancing him to fine-leg, but in his next over Wagg ended the game as Footitt miscued a drive and lobbed the ball to Dean Cosker at mid-off as Derbyshire were dismissed for 154.