Date-stamped : 29 Jun94 - 14:28
County Championship
Glamorgan v Lancashire, 23-27 June 1994, Colwyn Bay.

====> Day 2, 24 Jun 94
Glamorgan hit by Chapple burst
Glamorgan (191-7) trail Lancashire  (359)  by 168 runs

         WASIM AKRAM'S absence was hardly noticed here yesterday.
While he was tending a groin injury  and  no  doubt  musing  over
Pakistan's forthcoming trip to Sri Lanka, a young man called Glen
Chapple was removing Glamorgan's top-order batsmen. Chapple might
well  have missed this game if Wasim had played. Instead, he took
the first four wickets in a 17-over spell of lively pace  bowling
which  reduced Glamorgan to 78 for four. Chapple, who is only 20,
has played for England U-19 and attracted some notoriety  at  Old
Trafford  last season when Glamorgan fed him enough long hops and
full tosses to score a century in 27 balls. A rural Yorkshireman,
from Skipton, he plods around the field with the heavy tread of a
farmer. But when he is  bowling  he  hurls  himself  towards  the
stumps  before  releasing  the  ball fast enough to force batsmen
into hurried strokes. A little extra bounce in  one  delivery  to
Hugh Morris smacked the batsman on the hand, a painful prelude to
his dismissal. Chapple had started the day as a batsman, partner-
ing  Warren  Hegg  in  a last-wicket stand of 40 in 80 minutes to
take Lancashire to 359 which must have  looked  miles  away  when
they  were  96  for six on the opening day. There was no rest for
the lad. When Glamorgan batted he  bowled  22  of  the  first  47
overs,  starting  with  an  unproductive  five-over  spell before
lunch. The other 17 came in the afternoon when  the  morning  sun
had  given way to cloudy, threatening conditions to assist swing.
His first over brought him the wicket of Steve James,  caught  by
wicket-keeper  Hegg  down the legside. Morris then turned a catch
off his legs after scoring 52, Matthew Maynard nonchalantly drove
to  silly  mid-off  and Adrian Dale provided Hegg with his second
catch. Chapple was warmly applauded when he took his place on the
boundary  after  each  wicket. A long shift had brought him 17-4-
40-4, his best for Lancashire. Wickets from Ian Austin  and  Gary
Yates  kept Lancashire in control but an unbeaten half-century by
David Hemp, who survived a difficult slip chance off Chapple when
14,  kept alive Glamorgan's hopes of avoiding the follow-on. They
need 19 more today.

(Extract from The Daily Telegraph, by Brian Bearshaw)
<END> Contributed by Vicky (VIGNESWA@*umass.edu)