da bet nacional： Rain washed out the third play`s play in the County Championship matchbetween Glamorgan and Kent at St.Helen`s in Swansea
da dobrowin： Andrew Hignell27-May-2001Rain washed out the third play`s play in the County Championship matchbetween Glamorgan and Kent at St.Helen`s in Swansea.After a morning of mist and persistant drizzle, the early afternoon saw morecontinuous and heavy rain sweep in from Swansea Bay. A lull in mid-afternoonled to umpires Ken Palmer and Jeremy Lloyds calling an early tea, and aninspection at five o`clock. But just as drying-up operations began inearnest out in the middle, the “Mumbles mizzle” returned and the umpiresabandoned play for the day at half-past four.The game therefore enters the final day with Glamorgan still in their firstinnings, 75 runs behind Kent, with two wickets still standing. With thewicket increasingly giving some assistance to the spin bowlers, there could,in theory, be a positive outcome to this match, especially as Glamorgan`sRobert Croft will be eager to get in some match progress before travellingup to Old Trafford to join up with the rest of the England party for theSecond Test at Old Trafford.Today`s washout leaves Glamorgan rueing the elements for the secondsuccessive Championship game, as last week they had all four days of theirmatch against Lancashire at Old Trafford washed out by rain. So far thisseason, the Welsh county have lost over 50 hours of play and today`s totalwashout is the seventh full day that Glamorgan have lost out of a possibletotal of fifteen day`s play.The wet Swansea weather was also a huge disappointment for the St.Helen`sBalconiers, the famous supporters organisation, based at the historic groundin Swansea which over the years has been the scene of many famous days inthe club`s history, including Glamorgan`s victories against the Australiansin 1964 and 1968, as well as Sir Garfield Sobers` six sixes in an over in 1968.During the last four years, the Balconiers have invested £45,000 infirst-class cricket at the Swansea ground, and have been instrumental inorganising this year`s Swansea Festival which continues on Wednesday withGlamorgan`s Championship match against Yorkshire, and ends next Sunday withthe National League game against Sussex.All of Glamorgan`s loyal supporters will be hoping that the weather improvesfor the rest of the week.
