Hogan takes a career-best 7/92 as Gloucestershire are dismissed for 478

There had been much speculation amongst spectators yesterday about how this match might unfold and whether Gloucestershire would declare behind to set up a run-chase on the final day against a Glamorgan attack which was missing the injured John Glover. Instead, Michael Klinger opted to bat all day yesterday, and to continue for a while this morning in order to amass a first innings lead and then, with his youthful bowling attack, attempt to bowl out Glamorgan

But the clatter of wickets came first thing as Gloucestershire, who started the day on 456/4, and with a slender lead of 8 runs, had their hopes of quick runs dealt an immediate blow as Michael Hogan dismissed Hamish Marshall with the day's first delivery as Mark Wallace completed a regulation catch behind the stumps. James Fuller then dispatched his first ball through the covers before Benny Howell did the same in Dean Cosker's opening over, but Hogan struck again in his third over as Fuller flayed a rising ball into Stewart Walters' hands in the gully.

Fuller's departure saw Miles Hammond make his Championship bow with the bat on the ground where his illustrious namesake had been so prolific, but the seventeen year-old schoolboy soon lost his partner as Hogan, with the total on 475, claimed his fifth wicket as Howell departed l.b.w. Next over, the paceman gained his sixth wicket as Hammond edged to Wallace who then pouched another catch as Craig Miles miscued a sweep . The wicket-keeper then claimed his fifth catch as Hogan struck again in his next over as David Payne sparred at another rising delivery to give Hogan career-best bowling figures of 7/92 to accompany his best-ever score of 51 in Glamorgan's first innings.

This flurry of wickets meant that Gloucestershire had a slender first innings lead of 30 runs whilst Glamorgan had an hour to bat before lunch, plus the following two sessions. Ben Wright and Will Bragg duly gave the Welsh county a breezy start with the former deftly clipping Fuller to mid-wicket before cover driving Miles. Bragg got off the mark with a couple of leg-glances before steering Payne off the back foot through point as the arrears were wiped out shortly before the lunch interval.

Ben Wright and Will Bragg had met few alarms in the hour before lunch - a distinct contrast to the opening passage of play this morning when the home side had lost their last six wickets for 22 runs. Glamorgan's opening pair continued to make trouble-free progress under the clear blue skies with Bragg off-driving Graham McCarter to bring up the fifty before Wright cover drove Payne on two occasions to the advertising boards adjacent to the building site which occupied around half of the boundary opposite the Pavilion.

Their serene stand ended in the 27th over as Wright was caught down the leg-side by a diving Gareth Roderick after the opener tried to glance James Fuller. Bragg responded by driving McCarter through mid-off and backward point for successive fours before Stewart Walters got off the mark with a couple of pulls against Fuller who in opting for a series of short-pitched deliveries tried, albeit in vain, to extract the same venomous lift and lateral movement which Hogan had found this morning at the Ashley Down End.

Fuller duly made way for Miles but he too proved largely innocuous and was cut for four by Walters. Miles Hammond also entered the attack at the Pavilion End, but the promising young colt found little in the surface to assist him as the second wicket pair continued to quietly accumulate before tea, with Bragg reaching a patient fifty from 138 balls. Shortly before the interval however, Walters was caught behind as he edged a delivery from Benny Howell.

Glamorgan resumed after tea on 129/2, as the game meandered quietly towards a draw. Will Bragg continued to accumulate as he clipped Benny Howell to the ropes at mid-wicket, whilst Marcus North steered Miles Hammond to the leg-side boundary before clipping successive full tosses from the youngster to the ropes at long-leg.

The former Australian Test batsmen then plundered a couple of leg-side fours in the young spinner's next over before the pair accumulated in one's and two's as Howell and Hammond continued to wheel away in the closing overs, before the contest duly ended at 4.50pm as Glamorgan declared shortly before the start of the final hour.