County Championship: Rain thwarts Worcestershire's win bid against Glamorgan

LV= County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens Cardiff (day four): Worcestershire 454-9 Dec: Roderick 172*, Leach 87, Barnard 75; van der Gugten 4-81 Glamorgan 295: Gill 92, Byrom 67, C Cooke 51*; Pennington 4-78, Gibbon 4-87 & 5-0Glamorgan (12 points) draw with Worcestershire (14 pts) for 295 on their first shot.

Dillon Pennington (4-78 ) and Ben Gibbon (a career best 4-87) did most of the damage.

Worcestershire will have to maybe win their last three games to stand a chance of promotion, while Glamorgan move up to second.

Welsh side lead Middlesex by seven points in Division 2 thanks to a helping hand from the weather in Cardiff, but visitors got good value for their 14 points.

Glamorgan started the day needing 64 points to avoid the call-on and came close thanks to Chris Cooke's undefeated 51.

But Gibbon had debutant Ajaz Patel caught by 10 and Pennington had Michael Hogan caught in the middle of the wicket during 15, after hitting a straight six from Gibbon.

A downpour drove the players away at 11.25am BST and the referees called off the match at 1.50pm BST after further heavy rain.

Glamorgan manager Matthew Maynard, told BBC Sport Wales:

"Worcester hit very well, there was a bit in the wicket but Roderick and Leach took what we hoped was 350 and added another 100 points.

"We...