Close of Play report
Glamorgan had reached 231-5 at tea with Tribe unbeaten on 120 and he continued his unflustered accumulation after tea with a resolute Chris Cooke with the pair completing a series of singles against the spin of loanee Calvin Harrison and the seam of Justin Broad. Tribe brought up the 250 and the first batting point by nurdling Broad for four before swatting a short ball from the bowler for four over point. Cooke – on his 150th first-class appearance for Glamorgan - pulled a long-hop from Harrison for six en route to his fifty from 101 balls. He celebrated by pulling Harrison again for four as well as Saif Zaib when he entered the attack shortly before the new ball was available.
Tribe also launched Zaib for a straight six, before pulling Ramesh for four to reach 150 from 221 balls before Northants took the new ball after 80 overs. Cooke greeted the return of Procter by clipping him to square-leg for four before scything Guthrie through point for four. But on 84 his valiant innings ended as he pulled another short ball from Liam Guthrie to deep backward square-leg where Justin Broad completed a tumbling catch. It also ended the sixth wicket stand which had added 162 in 43.4 overs - Glamorgan's best-ever against Northants for that wicket surpassing the 150 added by Maurice Turnbull and Trevor Every at Swansea in 1933.
Timm van der Gugten announced his arrival by on-driving Procter for four before Tribe steered Guthrie for four to third man. The pair continued to work the ball around for singles as the 350, and another batting point was accrued in the 92nd over. Tribe then straight-drove Harrison for four to reach 175* before cover-driving Broad for four to reach his highest score in senior cricket. At 21 years and 163 days, he ended the day nineteen runs away from becoming the youngest double-centurion for Glamorgan in Championship cricket since 2016 when Aneurin Donald made 234 against Derbyshire at Colwyn Bay aged 19 years and 210 days.
Afternoon Report
Glamorgan resumed after lunch on 115-4 with Tribe harpooning Ramesh for six over mid-wicket before Kellaway cover-drove Guthrie for four. The latter also paddle-swept and reverse-swept Ramesh for a pair of fours, whilst Tribe flicked Guthrie to the ropes at mid-wicket before punching the Australian left-armer off the back foot through extra-cover. Tribe then swatted Whitehouse for four to mid-wicket.
With the total on 164, Harrison replaced Ramesh and with his second delivery bowled Kellaway around his legs as the young tyro attempted an orthodox sweep. Chris Cooke began by clipping Harrison for four to square-leg before imperiously pulling Broad for four. He then unfurled a superb cover-drive for four against Broad, before Tribe completed his hundred from 150 balls by inside-edging a drive against Harrison - his fourth century in as many games following his unbeaten hundreds in the closing pair of matches in the One-Day Cup and a career-best 175 in a one-day game for Jersey.
Tribe celebrated with a flowing on-drive for four against Procter before reaching a career-best 108 by sweeping Harrison, surpassing his previous best against Leicestershire earlier in the season at Grace Road. Clearly the air in the East Midlands is very much to his liking as he then flicked Procter to fine-leg for four. Cooke also on-drove the home captain for four before Tribe swept Harrison in front of square for a further boundary
Lunchtime Report
It's already been a highly successful few days for various teams at Glamorgan County Cricket Club, with their Women's team on Saturday clinching a place in next weekend's final of the Metro Bank Women’s One-Day Cup Division Two at Worcester, whilst yesterday at Headingley, the Under 18s won the boy's equivalent of the 50-overs competition by defeating their counterparts from Yorkshire by 46 runs. (writes Andrew Hignell)
This morning at Northampton the Men's 1st XI continued their quest for promotion into Division One of the Rothesay County Championship as they began the game 28 points behind leaders Leicestershire and 24 points ahead of Derbyshire in third place. Glamorgan made one change to their line-up from the game with Lancashire which ended on 1 August with a thumping victory for the Welsh county, with Timm van der Gugten replacing Ned Leonard. It was Zain ul Hassan and Asa Tribe who opened the batting against a Northants side missing the rested Ben Sanderson and including debutant seamer Ben Whitehouse and spinner Nirvan Ramesh.
ul Hassan struck the day’s first boundary as he square drove Luke Procter in the sixth over, but in the next over and with the total on 15, he edged a ball from the Northants captain into Lewis McManus’ gloves. With Sam Northeast as his new partner, Tribe then flicked Liam Guthrie to the ropes in front, and behind, square-leg for successive fours. Northeast then greeted the introduction of Whitehouse into the attack by punching him through point for four, before Tribe drilled him for a pair of fours through the covers.
Northeast brought up the 50 in the 15th over by pulling Broad for four prior to a sublime leg-glance by Tribe against Justin Broad. The Jerseyman then pulled a long-hop from Whitehouse to the ropes at mid-wicket before Northeast cover-drove Broad for another coruscating four. But with the total on 65, Northeast edged Broad to Calvin Harrison at second slip as Kiran Carlson joined Tribe.
Tribe continued his assault on Whitehouse by pulling two further balls for four before adding a third with a nurdle to third man to complete a 63-ball fifty. Procter then switched ends and was rewarded with the wicket of Carlson who inside-edged a delivery into the wicket-keeper’s gloves. 82-3 saw Colin Ingram make his way to the middle. He began with a cover-drive for four against Procter before Northants switched to spin with Nirvan Ramesh and Calvin Harrison bowling in tandem.
Shortly before lunch the hundred came up courtesy of four overthrows as Ingram scuttled through for a single but next over, the southpaw miscued a drive against Ramesh and was caught at mid-off to give the seventeen year-old his maiden Championship wicket.