Leicestershire 280 for five (Handscomb 102, Hill 92) path Glamorgan 387 (Byrom 86, Carlson 80, Northeast 61, Currie 5-64) by 107 runs
Earlier, Leicestershire seamer Scott Currie had recorded the primary five-wicket haul of his first-class profession, ending with 5 for 64.
Handscomb, who signed a two-year contract final 12 months after a profitable first season with Leicestershire, has began the season in spectacular type, with 547 runs already to his title after scoring 51 or larger in six of his eight innings thus far within the first half of the Division Two programme.
He reached right now’s hundred from 160 balls together with his twelfth 4, pushed down the bottom off James Harris.
Currie wanted only one supply in the beginning of the second morning to assert the fifth wicket he had hoped may come his approach after Glamorgan resumed on 352 for eight.
Straying down the leg facet, it was hardly one of the best ball Currie bowled in his 26 overs but it surely brushed Sam Northeast’s glove on the best way by means of to ‘keeper Ben Cox and umpire Neil Bainton raised the finger. 4 for 109 for Hampshire towards Surrey in April 2021 was the 23-year-old’s earlier finest.
A fourth batting level eluded Glamorgan, however not till Mir Hamza had offered some leisure on his solution to an unbeaten 24.
The Pakistan Check bowler’s vigorous hoicking at something on the leg facet introduced him a 4 and two sixes – one off a prime edge – and a second of comedy when he mistakenly thought he had hit Currie to the midwicket boundary, unaware that the ball had hit a part of his physique padding and was trickling alongside the pitch just some toes from him. Fortuitously for him, after setting off nonchalantly for a presumed pointless run, Currie’s shy on the stumps missed.
He and Harris thus added 35 for the final wicket earlier than Harris was caught behind.
It left Leicestershire needing first to achieve 238 to keep away from the follow-on, which seemed a great distance off when Marcus Harris and Louis Kimber had been out in consecutive overs to depart them 38 for 2.
Australian worldwide Harris – like Hamza within the final match of his county stint – was leg earlier than to a full-length ball from the Pakistan left-armer earlier than Louis Kimber edged behind off Timm van der Gugten. When Rishi Patel perished in related vogue after lunch – a second wicket for the Netherlands worldwide seamer on his first look of the marketing campaign – Leicestershire had been in issue at 65 for 3.
Hill and Handscomb had been then completely examined with the ball by Hamza, whose rising frustration as a string of appeals had been turned down led umpire Bainton to talk to his captain.
Leicestershire’s fourth-wicket pair weathered the storm and, with the pitch seeming to flatten out considerably, Hill accomplished his second half-century of the season off 98 balls and had progressed to 66 out of 161 for 3 at tea.
Handscomb adopted swimsuit quickly afterwards, his coming off 90 balls simply after he had glanced Van der Gugten to the fine-leg boundary for his seventh 4.
The pitch was trying more and more unhelpful to the bowlers, and Harris’s tactic of banging the ball briefly didn’t look to be working till it out of the blue did, in a much less typical approach, when Hill performed a deliberate uppercut to a supply from around the wicket and was caught by Billy Root, scampering in from third man.
Inside attain of a primary hundred of the season, the Leicestershire captain’s dismay was palpable in each motion of his physique as he trudged again to the pavilion.
Nonetheless, his 141-run stand with Handscomb had taken his facet a lot of the best way in the direction of the follow-on level, which was handed, within the occasion, when new man Ian Holland reduce Zain Ul-Hassan by means of backward level for his first boundary as a Leicestershire participant.
Within the occasion it was his solely boundary of a debut innings that ended when he adopted one down the leg facet to be caught behind quickly after Glamorgan had taken the brand new ball.
