Glamorgan and Derbyshire draw in Cardiff thriller

Glamorgan's Ben Kellaway recorded career-best performances with bat and ball on the same day

Rothesay County Championship Division Two, Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day four)

Glamorgan 431 & 256-7 dec: Kellaway 74, Ingram 64; Tickner 3-44

Derbyshire 350 & 308-9: Andersson 78; Kellaway 5-101, Leonard 3-66

Glamorgan (14 pts) drew with Derbyshire (13 pts)

Match scorecard

A brilliant all-round contribution from Glamorgan's Ben Kellaway was not quite enough to earn victory as Derbyshire held out for a draw at 308-9 in a pulsating contest which swung one way then the other.

Derbyshire had a serious crack at 338 in 65 overs, which would have been their third highest Championship chase.

Some fine aggressive batting, led by Martin Andersson with 78, put the visitors in line for an unlikely victory before Kellaway (5-101) and Ned Leonard (3-66) pegged them back.

Glamorgan declared at lunch on 256-7, with Kellaway striking 74 and Chris Cooke an unbeaten 49 in a stand of 110.

Glamorgan were 213 ahead at the start of play and lost night-watchman Andy Gorvin for six, lobbing a catch to short-leg off the ferocious Blair Tickner.

Kellaway survived an extraordinary near play-on to Zak Chappell on 19 as he and Cooke defended assiduously to ensure some degree of safety for Glamorgan, who took the first 22 overs of the day to accumulate 53 runs.

But a rapid change of gear saw both men opening their shoulders effectively for the final half-hour of the morning session, 71 coming off nine overs as Derbyshire posted virtually all their fielders on the boundary and Kellaway swung his way to a career-best.

A required run-rate of 5.2 looked demanding, given the relatively slow scoring for most of the match, but former Glamorgan captain David Lloyd set off at a fair lick with 42 off 46 balls in a stand of 67 with Caleb Jewell before Ned Leonard trapped him lbw.

Harry Came went without scoring, caught at short-leg off Kellaway, who also ended a brief flurry from Jewell and Wayne Madsen when Jewell was lbw, sweeping, for 44.

Madsen was well caught for 22 at fine leg by Andy Gorvin, pulling at Leonard, and Brooke Guest and Andersson settled in before moving up the gears and forcing Glamorgan onto the defensive.

Guest fell to Fernando for 48 but with Anuj Dal starting strongly, 98 were needed in the last hour at little more than a run a ball.

That was down to 60 when Kellaway had Andersson caught behind off a reverse-sweep which lobbed up, and bowled Zak Chappell first ball.

Alex Thomson drove Leonard to mid-on and when Dal (34) bizarrely walked past one from Kellaway and got himself stumped, there were 28 balls left for the last wicket to survive.

The fielders, who had been scattered round the boundary, gathered round the bat but injured Luis Reece and last man Tickner survived.

Glamorgan's Ben Kellaway told BBC Sport Wales:

"A pretty special day, a first-class best with the bat and the ball. It was nice to get us in that position with the bat and although we didn't start the way we wanted to with the ball, we worked hard and for us to turn it round and potentially almost win at the end was special,

"I'm starting to find my feet (in the team), it's quite a clear role they've set out for me. To be the first spinner now we've lost Shoaib Bashir, it came with that bit of added pressure but I'm ready for it and the ball came out nicely today."

Coach Richard Dawson added:

"The game was in the balance overnight so we had to play sensibly and then put the pressure back on Derbyshire. The fourth innings was a topsy-turvy affair, it was great to see Ben Kellaway take a five-for on a spinning wicket and get runs.

"I thought Derbyshire were going to go for it, they put us under pressure after tea. There were great opportunities for Ben and Ned to learn, taking the ball in positions in the game of massive influence, so hopefully they'll be better for this experience."

Derbyshire captain Wayne Madsen told BBC Radio Derby:

"It was a great game of cricket, the message was 'we are out to win the game', so the belief we played with stood us in good stead.

"I'm really proud, we gave it a go all the way through and only with the last two wickets did we decide we needed to close up shop.

"Guesty and Martin played fantastic knocks to get us in a position where we had a really good chance of winning the game, at a run a ball, and Anuj kept the momentum up.

"There were some big performances from everyone through the game, that's the pleasing thing after this first batch of five games."