da luck： Kent’s sole winter recruit Calum Haggett bagged 3 for 38 runs toensure the hosts made the most of a rain interrupted opening day with Glamorgan.
12-Jun-2013
ScorecardMarcus North top-scored for Glamorgan•Getty Images
Kent’s sole winter recruit Calum Haggett bagged 3 for 38 runs toensure the hosts made the most of a rain interrupted opening day with Glamorgan.Haggett, who joined having undergone heart surgery barely 18 months beforehand,enjoyed two useful spells from the Nackington Road End after Glamorgan hadelected to bat in overcast conditions.Kent, who dropped England Lions spearhead Matt Coles for personal reasons,included on-loan Durham seamer Mitchell Claydon, but it was Haggett and CharlieShreck who made good use of the new ball.Shreck saw chances go down at first and third slip during a naggingly accurateopening burst, leaving Haggett to enjoy two breakthroughs in the opening 10overs. Haggett had Will Bragg caught behind byGeraint Jones when he shuffled tentatively forward to feather acatch to the wicketkeeper and make it 10 for 1. While Shreck toiled without success from the Pavilion End, Haggett celebrated asecond scalp when Ben Wright shouldered arms to a delivery that held its line topeg back off-stump.Former Surrey skipper Stewart Walters then joined up with Australianleft-hander Marcus North to add an attractive 60 inside 20 overs for the thirdwicket.On a pitch that appeared to be easing, neither man looked in trouble as actingKent skipper Jones introduced first-change seamers Darren Stevens and Claydon. Neither looked effective during their respective stints and it came as nosurprise when Jones reverted to his opening attack half-an-hour before lunch.The move paid almost immediate dividends when Walters wafted at a widehalf-volley from Shreck to be caught behind five minutes from the interval.With the St Lawrence floodlights on and rain forecast, Glamorgan’s North movedsmoothly through to 46 with three boundaries to his name until he was given out caught at the wicket off Haggett. He appeared puzzled by thedecision as he grudgingly departed.Two rain breaks and drizzle either side of tea served as a pre-cursor to theweather that followed and by 5pm umpires Steve Garratt and Neil Mallender hadlittle option but to abandon play for the day.