Ben Kellaway completed the relatively rare feat of scoring a century and bagging a five-for in a County Championship match for Glamorgan when he made 139 before taking a career-best 6/111 in Gloucestershire’s second innings in their drawn match this afternoon at Sophia Gardens. (writes Andrew Hignell)
Overall, he is the seventh player in Glamorgan’s history to achieve the feat, but at 21 years and 178 years old, Ben is the youngest, surpassing Rodney Ontong’s achievement against the same opponents and at the same venue when he was 23 years old back in 1979.
Robert Croft scored 20 and 90, besides claiming figures of 5/103 and 5/57 against Hampshire, also at Sophia Gardens, in 2005 but, as the list below shows, Ben was the first Glamorgan cricketer to achieve the feat of a century and a five-wicket haul in the County Championship for 37 years.
1935 - Emrys Davies v Warwickshire at Swansea: 100 and 5/54
1946 – Emrys Davies v Hampshire at Swansea: 119 and 5/61
1951 – Len Muncer v Derbyshire at Chesterfield: 107* and 5/34 & 5/23
1952 – Allan Watkins v Leicestershire at Neath: 107 and 5/16
1962 – Peter Walker v Middlesex at Lord`s: 152* and 7/58
1979 – Rodney Ontong v Gloucestershire at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff: 104 and 5/40
1985 - Rodney Ontong v Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge: 130 and 5/39 & 8/67
1988 – Greg Thomas v Warwickshire at Edgbaston: 110 and 6/70
2025 - Ben Kellaway v Gloucestershire at Sopha Gardens, Cardiff: 139 and 6/111