Reed (5/27) scythes through Worcestershire who are dismissed for 123

The Welsh county, who named an unchanged team, had no hesitation in bowling first after winning the toss under leaden grey skies. After events last night, it might have been more appropriate had there been blue skies over the city which last night had celebrated it's football team winning promotion to the Premiership. In fact, Cardiff City FC started life in the late nineteenth century as Riverside CC, playing cricket matches on what was then the Sophia Gardens Recreation Field before diversifying into association football and playing their early games on the public recreation ground adjacent to Cathedral Road before moving to a permanent home at Ninian Park in the early twentieth century.

After two maidens, Matt Pardoe got the scoreboard moving as he skewed a drive over the head of the slip cordon with the ball speeding away for the day's first boundary. A more convincing leg-glance against the tall Australian brought the opener another four in the next over, but it also led to his downfall as in the seventh over, the opener repeated the shot against Hogan only to send the ball into Ben Wright's safe hands at leg-slip.

13/1 saw Moeen Ali join his captain Daryl Mitchell with the pair making watchful progress as Jim Allenby entered the attack in the 12th over. The all-rounder was cut for four by Mitchell, before being leg-glanced to the ropes by Moeen before Mike Reed joined the attack at the River End and beat the outside edge of the bat on several occasions. Moeen guided the tall seamer to third man in the 22nd over to bring up the fifty, but five runs later the obdurate Mitchell was removed by Reed as Stewart Walters completed a good catch to his right at second slip.

55/2 became 56/3 as Thilan Samaraweera was trapped leg before by Hogan who had returned to the attack as Glamorgan secured their first bowling point shortly before the lunch interval.Next over, Hogan secured another scalp as Moeen spliced a short ball from the Australian into Wright's hands at leg-slip before next over Reed trapped Alexei Kervezee lbw.

It had been a dramatic passage of play before lunch as Worcestershire lost four wickets for as many runs in the space of 23 balls with Mike Reed and Michael Hogan sharing the spoils in a hostile spell of seam bowling. The pair continued their probing spell after the interval as Michael Johnson and Neil Pinner played and missed on several occasions. Pinner duly got the scoreboard moving as he cover drove Hogan for four, but Reed continued to dissect the visiting batting as he yorked Johnson with the total on 69.

Grahame Wagg and Jim Allenby returned to the attack after forty minutes play, with Gareth Andrew forcing Allenby off the back foot behind square. But this was a rare boundary as the visitors continued to be kept in check by the home bowlers with Allenby striking back in his next over as he bowled Pinner with the total on 85.

David Lucas then joined Andrew who continued to play watchfully, before Lucas aided Worcestershire's pursuit of three figures with a sparkling on-drive for four against Wagg before bringing up the hundred by steering Reed through gully for another four. This flurry of runs followed the only fielding lapse of the day as Dean Cosker dropped a difficult chance at backward point as Hogan returned to the fray but the bowler made amends as he re-arranged Andrew's stumps with Worcestershire on 102/8.

It then became 102/9 as Cosker atoned for his earlier lapse by catching Andrew at backward point to give Reed his fourth wicket. Chris Russell then smeared a couple of fours to the vacant third man position, before playing and missing at six consecutive deliveries from Reed who then polished off the innings by bowling the batsmen to finish with Championship-best figures of 5/27 as Worcestershire ended on 123 in the 64th over.

Glamorgan were 0/.0 in the third over when their LV=County Championship match against Worcestershire at the SWALEC Stadium waas halted because of bad light after the visitors had been bundled out for 123 inside 64 overs with Mike Reed (5/27) and Michael Hogan (4/33) each returning competition-best figures.

After their bowlers had taken just a couple of sessions to dismiss Worcestershire, Glamorgan's batsmen began after tea with Will Bragg and Ben Wright facing Alan Richardson and Chris Russell in gloomy conditions. Indeed, the light quickly deteriorated and after thirteen balls the umpires took the players off for bad light.

With the bank of cloud still hanging over the ground at 5.45pm, the umpires called off play for the day.