Glamorgan were dismissed for 474 midway through the second afternoon of their LV=County Championship match against Lancashire at Old Trafford with Murray Goodwin making 194 and Simon Kerrigan taking 7/162. By the close, the home side were 93/0 in reply and 381 runs in arrears.
Resuming on 315/3 with Goodwin on 138 and Jim Allenby on 68, Glen Chapple and Kyle Hogg resumed the bowling eager to make amends for the costly miss in the closing overs last night when Simon Kerrigan had dropped a return catch from the 40 year-old. But it was Allenby who took centre-stage in the early exchanges as he despatched Hogg through mid-wicket and long-on for four and three in the opening over of the day, before nurdling him to the ropes at backward point next over.
The runs continued to flow for Allenby as he twice pulled Chapple for six in the space of three balls high over the head of the fielders at deep square-leg and long-leg to bring up the 150-run stand for the fourth wicket. But in Chapple's next over, he gained a certain amount of revenge by trapping Allenby leg before with a delivery which jagged back quite sharply and kept a trifle low.
Mark Wallace duly joined Goodwin who cut Hogg to point to bring up the 350 and another batting point, before Wallace drilled Chapple through cover with a rasping drive. After an hour's play, Kerrigan to the fray at the Pavilion End whilst Luke Procter operated at the Statham End, and it was the latter who Goodwin guided through mid-wicket to complete his 150 after six hours at the crease.
Wallace then guided Procter for four high over the head of the slip cordon before Goodwin did the same to the last ball of the over. Arron Lilley then returned to the attack as Lancashire reverted to an all-spin attack half an hour before lunch, with Wallace sweeping the young off-spinner for four to bring up the fifty stand. Goodwin then brought up the 400 before drilling Lilley through the covers for four to to surpass Javed Miandad's unbeaten 164 as the highest score for Glamorgan in first-class cricket in Lancashire.
But next over Kerrigan ended the sprightely fifth wicket stand which had added 68 in 18 overs as Wallace edged Kerrigan to Ashwell Prince at slip,and with Glamorgan on 408/5 ,Nathan McCullum made his way to the middle to join Goodwin fifteen minutes before lunch
With Glamorgan on 438/6 Graham Wagg joined Goodwin, but his stay proved to be a brief one as in Kerrigan's next over he departed to a regulation catch at bat-pad as he propped forward to the left-arm twirler. John Glover duly became Goodwin's new partner, with the veteran clipping Chapple to mid-wicket to move ever closer to his double-hundred and become Glamorgan's first batsman to post 200 since 2011 when Alviro Petersen made 210 against Surrey at The Oval.
But with his score on 194, and the total on 448, he pulled a short ball from Kerrigan to square-leg where Andrea Agathangelou took a good two-handed catch diving to his right to end the batsman's seven and a half hour innings. Glover then unfurled a powerful cover drive for four against Chapple but two balls later he spooned a return catch to the Lancashire captain, as Alex Jones joined Cosker. The latter swept Kerrigan for four whilst Jones drove Lilley to the ropes at cover, but with the total on 474 Kerrigan wrapped up the innings as he trapped Cosker leg before as the Welsh county ended one run short of equalling their previous best Championship total on Lancashire soil of 475 made at the Manchester ground in 1995.
This left Lancashire with forty overs remaining in the day's allocation as Karl Brown and Luis Reece opened the batting - much to the delight of statisticians who had discovered that this was the first time that each side in a first-class match had an opener called Rees (or Reece) since Sydney in 1857 when WG Rees and WL Rees were the openers in the match between New South Wales and Victoria.
Wagg duly opened the bowling and was despatched through the covers three times by Brown. After five overs McCullum replaced Glover at the Pavilion End with the Kiwi off-spinner having a couple of overs before the interval.
Karl Brown and Luis Reece resumed the Lancashire first innings after tea with John Glover switching to the Statham End as Nathan McCullum continued at the Pavilion end. Reece began by square-cutting the Kiwi before Brown on-drove Glover. After each had delivered half a dozen overs, Alex Jones and Dean Cosker joined the attack, with Brown cover driving Jones as Lancashire reached fifty in the 23rd over.
The pair kept things tight with Reece eventually sweeping Cosker all along the ground to deep backward square where it was fielded by twelfth man Dewi Penrhyn Jones. Wagg also had a second salvo at the Statham End as the opening pair continued to graft away, with Reece cutting the left-armer for four. McCullum also returned shortly before the close and had an appeal for a catch at leg-slip rejected before Reece also swept him for four to the square-leg boundary.
The opener also pulled a short ball from Wagg for four before both visiting spinners operated in tandem shortly before the close.
