County Championship: Glamorgan beat Leics for first win since April

Glamorgan claimed a first Championship win since their opening match of the season as they bowled Leicestershire out for 270 to win by 132 runs.

But the visitors' tail-enders, led by Dieter Klein with 94, made them wait with the last two wickets adding 168.

Michael Hogan took 4-30, while Timm van der Gugten (3-63) claimed the last wicket.

Glamorgan remain bottom of Division Two, with the Foxes in sixth, after five wins and seven losses.

It was the Welsh county's first Championship victory in Cardiff since June 2015, although they have won in Swansea and Colwyn Bay.

Debutant Tom Taylor (4-15) and Ben Mike claimed three wickets each on the third morning to shoot Glamorgan out for 175.

But a target of 403 proved dispiriting for the visitors' top order, before Klein's career-best score, together with Callum Parkinson (31) and Gavin Griffiths (38 not out) kept Glamorgan waiting for their much-needed win to round off a torrid season.

Glamorgan bowler Timm van der Gugten told BBC Sport Wales:

"It dragged on longer than we wanted, credit to the Leicester boys who made us work for it- I wasn't involved in the first win so it was my first four-day win of the year- hopefully we can take some momentum into next year.

"It's been tough, but we're a young squad and a lot of young guys have had the chance to play more first-class cricket, so hopefully they'll bring what they've learnt into next season.

"You can probably tell (Hogan and I) have lost a bit of pace and zip in the last couple of games, but Marchant (de Lange) going down early (in the season) wasn't ideal and Lukas (Carey) injured as well, but that was the hand we were dealt.

"I'm straight on the bed on Monday for a bit of keyhole surgery on the shoulder, nothing major, but I've dislocated my shoulder a couple of times and it's to prevent it from keeping popping out."

Leicestershire captain Colin Ackermann told BBC Radio Leicester:

"We decided to bowl and they got 100 to 150 too many on that wicket which put us on the back foot, we probably lost it on the first day although we did rectify things in the second innings with the ball, Tommy Taylor bowled really well to pick up four.

"Half-way through the season we thought we had a great chance to get promoted, but injuries have cost us in that regard and we lost steam towards the end and injuries are one of the uncontrollables.

"But we'll definitely take a lot of positives, we're quite a young team especially in this game and the future's bright since guys have stepped up and done well."