Yorkshire increased their lead at the top of the CricInfo Championship after a comprehensive 328-run win over Glamorgan at Swansea inside three days
Richard Thomas of the South Wales Evening Post01-Jun-2001Yorkshire increased their lead at the top of the CricInfo Championship after a comprehensive 328-run win over Glamorgan at Swansea inside three days.The Division One leaders took 17 points from the game after bowlingGlamorgan out for 125 in their second innings by 3.30 today.At the start of day three Yorkshire batted on in their second innings toextend their overnight lead of 374 and set Glamorgan the daunting taskof 474 to win in five and a half sessions.Glamorgan would have had to re-write their record books if they weregoing to reach the winning post, but by lunch it became obvious thatonly rain that was forecast for later today and tomorrow would savethem.At lunch Glamorgan had disintegrated to 52-4 with Jimmy Maher, MikePowell, Matthew Maynard and Steve James all back in the pavilion, withthe damage having been done by Ryan Sidebottom and Gavin Hamilton withtwo wickets apiece.After lunch Hamilton continued where he left off by taking three wicketsin an over to remove Adrian Shaw and Darren Thomas in consecutive balls,as well as Alex Wharf.The match was wrapped by Darren Lehmann who ended a cameo from SteveWatkin. Watkin perished with a minimum of 150 overs of the match stillto bowl.In the process of posting a huge target for Glamorgan, David Byas scoredhis first century for three seasons, ending with 105 not out before thedeclaration.