Cricket: Gillespie shines for Glamorgan

Apr 24 2008 By Gareth Griffiths, Media Wales

AUSTRALIAN paceman Jason Gillespie bowled seven successive maidens for Glamorgan at Lord's today as Middlesex were bowled out for 308 at tea on the rain-affected second day of the LV county championship division two clash.

Resuming overnight at 198 for five, Middlesex had made painful progress in a 40-minute morning session where home batting pair of David Nash and Gareth Berg managed only 10 runs in 11 overs in the 40-minute session.

The miserly Gillespie was partly responsible for this, not conceding a run as he bowled four successive maidens in his first spell.

The rain hammered down during the lunch interval and a further 80 minutes was lost before the players returned to the field at 3.15pm.

Robert Croft picked up his first championship wicket of the summer when debutant Berg (33) popped a bat pad catch to Ryan Watkins before David Harrison trapped Tim Murtagh (22) lbw to claim his second wicket of the innings.

Gillespie's stranglehold over the Middlesex batsmen was temporarily halted with the first runs coming off the last ball of his eighth over of the day, when Nash guided a ball down to fine-leg for four.

The Australian gained his reward in his next over when veteran former England spinner Shaun Udal flicked a ball to square-leg to Gareth Rees for five, with Gillespie's Thursday figures at tea standing at 10-7-11-1.

Chris Silverwood (16) holed out to Rees on the square-leg boundary to hand Watkins his third wicket, before Nash was denied a deserved century when he edged a ball to Matthew Wood at point for 96 off the bowling of Wharf just before tea.