Cooke hits back on truncated day

Only 21.5 overs were possible on the first day of Glamorgan's Championship match with Kent. Glamorgan lost both openers but recovered well before prolonged rain through the afternoon led to a 4pm abandonment.

Will Bragg and Chris Cooke shared an undefeated third-wicket partnership of 86, after Kent had chosen to field first on a green-tinged pitch. Sam Northeast's decision was immediately vindicated when Matt Coles uprooted Mark Wallace's leg stump with his fifth ball

Six balls later, Darren Stevens trapped Jacques Rudolph leg before and, with the pitch assisting seam and swing, the visitors would have been confident of dismissing Glamorgan cheaply.

Coles, however, conceded 25 runs from his opening three overs, forcing his captain to take him off as Bragg and Cooke began Glamorgan's recovery. Stevens and Mitchell Claydon were not as expensive but there were too many loose deliveries that were punished, as Glamorgan raced along at almost five runs an over.

Bragg, Glamorgan's leading Championship run-scorer this season, again batted fluently, striking six fours from 61 balls, but Cooke was the more aggressive with eight boundaries, mainly from Coles' bowling - the Kent seamer returned to concede 10 off his fourth over for figures of 4-0-35-1, before rain stopped played 25 minutes before the scheduled lunch break.

Adam Rouse, the Kent wicketkeeper, would have been glad of the truncated day's play after he dislocated the little finger of his left hand, which was put back into place by the Kent physiotherapist following a lengthy stoppage.