Dawid Malan falls cheaply as Glamorgan apply early pressure

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Middlesex 64 for 3 v Glamorgan
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Glamorgan captain Michael Hogan picked up two wickets to give his side the edge against Middlesex on a rain-shortened first day at Lord's.

Hogan got rid of his opposite number Dawid Malan, as well as opener Sam Robson, as Middlesex fought their way to 64-3 after being put in to bat.

Only one over was bowled before the rain intervened - and in all the weather allowed Glamorgan to send down a total of 16.1 overs in the day. Lukas Carey, who bowled unchanged from the Pavilion End, made the initial breakthrough for the Welsh side by having Max Holden caught behind.

Sam Robson had seemed well-set as he carved two boundaries through the off side to reach 17 - but he became Hogan's first victim, prodding at one that bowled him through the gate.

Malan, playing his first innings of the county season, got off the mark with a leg glance for four but added just one more before he drove at Hogan and was caught at second slip just after lunch.

However, Stevie Eskinazi - also returning to the Middlesex line-up after illness - looked in good nick and hit Hogan for successive fours to reach 31 not out before the rain returned.

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Pink balls can beat Championship bad light - Malan

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Middlesex 194 (Eskinazi 94, Hogan 5-49, Van der Gugten 4-63) drew with Glamorgan 38 for 4 (Murtagh 4-12)
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Middlesex captain Dawid Malan wants the ECB to experiment with a pink ball in the County Championship to prevent more early season washouts.

Only 58 overs were bowled during Middlesex's Division Two clash against Glamorgan at Lord's, with rain on the final morning ensuring the match was abandoned as a draw.

The home of Glamorgan Cricket is to be renamed Sophia Gardens Cardiff after its partnership with its title sponsor SSE ended earlier this year. Sophia Gardens Cardiff, which echoes the name used by the venue from 1967 to 2007 will be used immediately, with the ground currently undergoing a rebranding process.

But Malan feels it could have been a different story with a pink ball in use on the second day, when no play was possible due to overcast conditions - although the Lord's floodlights were switched on.

"We could have had a full day we'd had a pink ball because there was no rain around," said the Middlesex skipper. "We were literally sitting around for four hours of bad light.

"We're lucky that we've got lights now - we never had them before - but we still got hardly any cricket in. It might be worth the ECB looking at using pink balls this time of the year.

"If you have a ball you can use under lights in the pitch black it probably makes sense to use it at that time of the year when you're probably going to lose more cricket, instead of the middle of summer.

"We've been experimenting quite a lot in county cricket over the last eight to nine years, so we might as well throw another one in.

"If it's something that's going to get you on (the field) and it's not an unfair advantage to the bowlers, I think it's worth trying and seeing what happens. You might not lose so much cricket."

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