Elliott guides Glamorgan home

Matthew Elliott (127) brought Glamorgan to the brink of victory after the visitors had been asked to score 307 runs to beat Middlesex in their championship match at Southgate and the Welsh county achieved the goal with two wickets in hand.

The Australian started the day on 38 n.o. and hit three sixes in a century which it seemed that he might get the runs single-handed. That was just as well for his partners were far from comfortable and when Elliott was out it seemed that the balance would tilt back in favour of the Londoners.

Indeed from the start the fall of wickets was steady. Elliott's partnership with Adrian Dale reached 231 when the former was stumped by David Nash off Paul Weekes. Dale was dismissed some twenty runs later and then Angus Fraser dismissed Keith Newell and Alex Wharf with Glamorgan still 21 runs short of victory.

Adrian Shaw and Darren Thomas pottered around to bring the scores even when Shaw was caught spectacularly by Mark Ramprakash but Dean Cosker saw out the over. Thomas pushed a ball from Weekes for the single to bring victory in a match which for much of its course could have gone either way.