County Championship: Cooke and Neser take Glamorgan ahead of Foxes

LV = County Championship Division Two, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester (day three) Leicestershire 407: Hanscomb 95, Ahmed 90, Hill 53; Van der Gugten 6-88 Glamorgan: 446-8: Cooke 121*, Neser 90, Labuschagne 64, Byrom 51; Scriven 3-50, Wright 3-89 pts) by 39 runs with two first inning wickets standingMatch scorecard

Their patient partnership saved the visitors, who might have to follow.

Neser's 90 was his best county score, while Cooke was unbeaten on 121 when bad light intervened.

It was the second consecutive year that Cooke had helped set a Glamorgan record at Leicester.

The Cooke-Neser stand broke a record dating back to 1928, when Dai Davies and Joe Hills rode 202 against Sussex at Eastbourne.

It follows Cooke's innings by 191 not in a record sixth-wicket stand of 461 at Grace Road nine months prior, when Sam Northeast's unreleased 410 had made headlines.

Resuming 164-5, Glamorgan took until just after lunch to pass the tracking number of 258 after being forced to work hard by Leicestershire's seam attack.

The home side was without Ed Barnes with an ankle injury suffered to deliver his first pitch of the match, although he somehow completed nine overs on the second night.

Mike Finan made a prodigious swing start, but it was one of his less threatening deliveries that saw Northeast fall behind for a gritty 40 as he was looking to regain his record form from the previous visit.

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