Ageless Malcolm takes Leicestershire to innings victory over Glamorgan

Leicestershire completed their fourth CricInfo Championship victory of the season, beating Glamorgan by the comprehensive margin of an innings and 90 runs at Cardiff today.

Vince Wells's side took a maximum 20-point haul to catapult them up to joint third place from sixth in division one.

But Glamorgan made them work for the victory and weren't bowled out until the first ball of the final 16 overs.

Leicestershire's hero of the final day was Devon Malcolm, who recorded figures of 5-98 as he passed 50 first-class wickets for the season.

Glamorgan had resumed their second innings on 15-2 this morning still needing another 361 to avoid an innings defeat.

Wickets fell at regular intervals but Leicestershire were frustrated by Adrian Dale, who shared a stand of 98 with Robert Croft, and then Darren Thomas.

Apart from some batting resistance the only threat to a Leicestershire victory was the weather, which forced the players to take an early tea with Glamorgan 237-7.

Matthew Maynard and Mike Powell survived until the 10th over of the day before Powell was strangled down the leg side by Malcolm.

Leicestershire's bid for victory was given a further boost in the morning session when Jon Dakin struck in his first over to have Maynard caught behind to leave Glamorgan 74-4.

But Dale, who reached 50, and Robert Croft offered some resistance and had guided the home side to 124-4 by lunch, still 253 adrift.

The fifth wicket pair had added 98 when Croft edged Malcolm to the wicketkeeper and four overs later Dale mis-hooked the former England paceman to sky a catch to Shahid Afridi.

Malcolm completed a five-wicket haul when Wallace gave wicketkeeper Neil Burns his fifth catch of the innings.

And after an entertaining 69 from Thomas, Glamorgan didn't hold up Leicestershire for long as the home side were bowled out for 287.