Glamorgan defeated Durham by 10 wickets in a remarkable game atChester-le-Street that ended at 3.22 p.m

Andrew Hignell18-Aug-2002Glamorgan defeated Durham by 10 wickets in a remarkable game atChester-le-Street that ended at 3.22 p.m. on the second afternoon.It followed an amazing second innings collapse by the home sidewho were trailing by 109 runs on first innings. Durham took lunch onSaturday at 78-1, but then in the space of the next 17 overs they lost9 wickets for just 36 runs. Six successive ducks were recorded asMike Kasprowicz took 5-25 in a fiery 8 over spell after lunch,and the miserly Robert Croft claimed 4-10 in 9 overs after the interval.In all, the match only occupied 154.3 overs, making it the shortest fourday County Championship in Glamorgan`s history, and one of the shortest four daygames on record. Glamorgan`s previous shortest match, unaffected by rain,was their defeat by Warwickshire by 9 wicketsat Cardiff in July 1995 – a game that spanned 179.3 overs and ended at 4.40 p.m. on thesecond day.Another unusual feature of the game at Chester-le-Street was that no batsman passedfifty in the match, with Glamorgan`s skipper Steve James recording the top-scoreof 47.