da apostaganha： Forty year-old Murray Goodwin, the elder statesman of county cricket, notched the 69th first-class century of his career and his second for his new county as Glamorgan took a grip of Kent at Canterbury.
13-Jun-2013
ScorecardMurray Goodwin, seen here against Northants, made his 69th first-class century•Getty Images
Forty year-old Murray Goodwin, the elder statesman of county cricket, notchedthe 69th first-class century of his career and his second for his new county asGlamorgan took a grip of Kent at Canterbury.Winless Kent now face a two-day battle to save themselves from an ignominious homedefeat after slumping to 73 for 4 in reply to Glamorgan’s battling 378. The eighth-placed hosts lost four wickets in the final 12 overs of day two before rain and bad light finally ended their agony. They now go into day three facing a deficit of 305.Without a win from their eight starts to date, Kent were guilty of tossing awaywickets on the same pitch that allowed Glamorgan’s middle order to flourishearlier in the day.Resuming on their overnight score of 155 for 4 after a rain-ruined openingday of 55 overs, Glamorgan lost Jim Allenby in the fifth over of theday after nicking a Charlie Shreck delivery to the wicketkeeper.Former Zimbabwe Test batsman Goodwin combined with his skipper Mark Wallace toadd 105 for the sixth wicket in 33.2 overs. The stand finally came to an end when Mitch Claydon, on loan from Durham, bounced Wallace – who hooked instinctively only to pick out Ben Harmison at deep midwicket to make it 273 for 6.Goodwin cruised to a 190-ball century with 14 fours and looked to kick on intandem with Graham Wagg, but Wagg miscued anattempted drive against Claydon to be caught at short cover by a divingHarmison. Goodwin followed soon after for 136, driving on the up and was caught at cover to bring in last man Michael Reed.In his 11-match first-class career thus far Reed had mustered only 38 runs, yetagainst a tired Kent attack he cantered to a career-best 27 before Claydonfinally snared him leg before to end the innings soon after 5pm.In fading light and with the floodlights on, Kent made a crisp start only tolose their way once opener Sam Northeast steered a delivery off the fullface of the bat to second slip against Wagg. Daniel Bell-Drummond chipped a full ball from Reed into the hands of BenWright at square leg then Rob Key fell in near identical fashion to thebowling of Michael Hogan.Kent’s miserable hour concluded when Brendan Nash nicked a defensivepush against Hogan through to the keeper to slope off with his side on 65 for4.Rain arrived soon after and despite an attempt to restart the game at 6.30pm,umpires Steve Garratt and Neil Mallender were forced to abandon play for theday.