You cant control the weather - Hogan

3 Aug 2017 | Cricket
Fast bowler Michael Hogan was left frustrated after Glamorgan fell to a five-run loss via the DLS method to local rivals Gloucestershire.

Hogan took career best figures of 5/17 as Glamorgan restricted Gloucestershire to 150/9 from their allotted overs before but the heavens opened with Glamorgan 32/2 and they players were unable to take the field again.

“It’s disappointing,” said Hogan. “You can’t control the weather. It may or may not have cost us, we don’t know yet, but it’s disappointing all the same.

“We felt like we’d restricted them towards the end to a good total with the players that we’ve got to get [the target] but it just wasn’t to be.

 “I’m happy with the numbers and the output and I felt like I’d controlled what I was trying to do out there. I’m happy with the wickets, but disappointed with the result.

“A little run out as well. When it goes your way, it just happens for you. In T20 cricket, when you’re on a roll, the game moves forward pretty quickly. It can happen like that and luckily I was on the right end of that.”

Captain Jacques Rudolph was bowled from the last over the match which put the Welsh County behind on DLS, but Hogan was quick to defend his captain.

“If you want to be critical, we conceded a lot of extras as well, a lot of wides as well.

“Those plus the extra balls as well when they go for runs, we should possibly have been defending less runs as well. There’s two ways to look at it. You don’t know when it’s raining that you’re going to go off and not come back on. It’s a shoddy one to play at the time and nobody begrudges that.”

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LISTEN// Hogan speaks to BBC Sport Wales