Date-stamped : 16 May95 - 10:29
CC: Glamorgan v Sussex, Swansea, 11-15 May 1995

====> Day 1, 11 May 95
Rain thwarts Glamorgan

First day of four: Glamorgan 7-1  against  Sussex,  rain  stopped
play.

Glamorgan`s attempt to start the  season  with  three  successive
victories  for  the first time since 1948 was frustrated when the
first day`s play against Sussex at Swansea ended  after  just  14
minutes.

In that time, however, Stephen James fell lbw to leave  Glamorgan
on seven for one at the close.

James fell to the second ball of the day, from Jason  Lewry.  But
once  Franklyn  Stephenson had completed his first over and Lewry
his second, rain fell to bring an end to the day`s play.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
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====> Day 4, 15 May 95
Wells spurns a victory chance - Edward Bevan

Glamorgan (212 & 270-7 dec) drew with Sussex (196 & 256-5)

SUSSEX supporters were not too pleased at their team`s tactics at
St Helen`s yesterday, where they opted to play for a draw despite
an excellent start from their openers and  when  the game   ended
they were only 30 runs adrift with five wickets in hand.

Bill Athey and Jamie Hall put on 165 for the  first  wicket,  and
although they departed in the space of 22 runs and Alan Wells was
out for nought, Sussex at one stage required  only 51  runs   for
victory with seven overs remaining.

Keith Newell, top scorer in the first innings, and Peter  Moores,
the  sixth-wicket  pair, are capable players, and with Ian Salis-
bury to come it would surely have been  in  Wells`s interest   to
have pressed for victory.

After Matthew Maynard (74) and Robert Croft (52 not out) had  ad-
ded  101  in  18  overs  Hugh Morris declared shortly after lunch
leaving Sussex to score 287 from 64 overs.

Athey and  Hall  set  off  purposefully  taking  11  from  Hamish
Anthony`s  opening  over, but Athey, in Watkin`s third over, sur-
vived a difficult chance to Maynard, who did well to get  a  hand
to a thick edge at second slip.

At tea Sussex were favourably placed needing a further  200  runs
from  38 overs, and with the pitch less responsive to seam Sussex
must have had thoughts of victory. Athey was the first to   reach
fifty  with a lofted drive off Neil Kendrick, quickly followed in
the next over by Hall as the openers began to accelerate.

Croft and Kendrick, bowling in tandem, posed few problems for the
batsmen,  who took advantage of the small boundaries and with 137
needed off 28 overs Morris recalled Watkin from the pavilion end.

With little movement in the air or off the pitch the batsmen con-
tinued  to  prosper  and it required a smart piece of fielding to
break the productive partnership.

Athey pushed the ball to midwicket and after a  moment`s  hesita-
tion  sent back his partner, who was run out by Adrian Dale as he
hit the stumps direct.

Dale struck again in the next over when Wells departed for a pair
again out second ball when he drove to mid-on.

With 20 overs left Sussex needed another 109, but then  lost  two
wickets  in  successive  overs.  Athey gave Watkin a return catch
from a leading edge, while Keith Greenfield touched a beauty   to
the wicketkeeper.

As long as Franklyn Stephenson remained, Sussex were  favourites,
but  he  perished  aiming an inelegant smear against Anthony, and
although Morris  permutated  his  bowlers  they were  unable   to
separate the sixth-wicket pair.

Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk)
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