Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Cheltenham School (day 4)
Gloucestershire 150 & 395-7 dec: Bracey 127, Value 77, Hammond 57; Swanepoel 4-49
Worcestershire 267 & 281-2: Lategan 144, Libby 107*
Worcestershire (20 pts) beat Gloucestershire (3 pts) by eight wickets
Dan Lategan smashed an excellent maiden century and opening accomplice Jake Libby additionally hit a ton as Worcestershire beat Gloucestershire at Cheltenham School to climb to fourth within the County Championship Division Two desk.
Set 279 to win in a minimal 60 overs, Worcestershire reached their goal with 4.5 overs to spare due to a mammoth opening stand of 244 between Lategan and Libby, who made 107 not out.
However it was 20-year-old South African left-hander Lategan who survived being dropped first ball to steal the present in solely his twelfth Championship look, hitting 5 sixes and 17 fours in his 144 from 163 balls.
James Bracey had earlier scored a battling 127 and staged a partnership of 102 with Ollie Value, who mustered 77, to propel Gloucestershire to 395-7 declared.
However, with 60 overs by which to get the runs, the Pears have been all the time more likely to sentence bottom-of-the-table Gloucestershire to an eighth defeat in 9 matches.
After Indian spinner Sai Kishore took the brand new ball, Lategan edged the primary supply to brief leg, the place Boorman put down a pointy likelihood.
However after elevating the primary 50 in 12 overs, Lategan drove Kishore for an enormous six over extensive long-on to bring-up a 48-ball half century.
After reaching tea on 110-0, the Pears wanted an additional 169 off a minimal 37 overs within the closing session with all wickets standing.
After surpassing his earlier highest rating of 89, made at Derby in Could, and pulled Value to the boundary to register his century.
And, though he perished with 35 nonetheless wanted, fellow centurion Libby stored his cool.
The Pears now face one other large house date in opposition to Lancashire this Thursday, when Gloucestershire go to Durham.
Report by ECB Reporters’ Community, supported by Rothesay.
Gloucestershire head coach Mark Alleyne:
“We needed to attempt to win the sport and thought setting 325 off 65 overs could be about proper. However we misplaced a few wickets shut collectively, that slowed us down and we did not fairly rating as many runs as we might have favored.
“We thought 60 overs could be the minimal wanted to win the sport, so the declaration was fairly beneficiant. We anticipated the pitch to proceed to deteriorate, which it did not. It remained fairly placid and that was a bit unusual.
“We have been a bit down on seam choices and knew we must depend on spin. It is a disgrace, as a result of we performed some actually good cricket to get ourselves again within the recreation and James Bracey and Ollie Value confirmed nice software.
“The principle drawback was shedding early wickets on day one and that was symptomatic of the tensions surrounding us with Championship cricket for the time being.”
Worcestershire head coach Alan Richardson:
“Truthful play to Gloucestershire – they set the sport up for an thrilling end. They may have batted all day, as an alternative of which they made a beneficiant declaration and tried to present themselves an opportunity of profitable the match.
“We have seen Jake Libby set-up profitable run chases within the 50-over competitors this month, and he was the perfect man to orchestrate this one. I believed his innings was performed at simply the fitting tempo and he was an enormous assist to Dan Lategan.
“Dan remains to be a younger participant and he is studying on a regular basis. He might have been out to the primary ball, however he handled that state of affairs very well and batted superbly after that.
“The wicket didn’t play as I believed it might and we discovered bowling tougher second time round. “
