North and Goodwin prosper

Marcus North and Murray Goodwin hit half-hundreds of years as Glamorgan appreciated the better of the first day's play against Leicestershire in their Lv= County Championship Division Two match at Grace Road. 

Put into bat on a clammy, overcast morning, Glamorgan arrived at 256 for five preceding terrible light carried an early end to the day with 5.2 overs remaining. 

North struck 68 and Goodwin 57 to turn things around for Glamorgan after they slipped to 98 for three; Nathan Buck and Ollie Freckingham took two wickets each for Leicestershire. 

With Ramnaresh Sarwan joining the West Indies squad for the Champions Trophy, Australian Joe Burns made his Leicestershire make a big appearance as his trade as Josh Cobb assumed control the captaincy. 

After awful light deferred the begin by a half-hour, Cobb won the hurl and chose to bowl. 

He was compensated as Freckingham struck twice in brisk succession; the paceman trapped Will Bragg lbw for five and, having seen Stewart Walters twice dropped in the slips, set aside a few minutes lucky with Michael Thornely sticking onto the get. 

It was a wonderful spell by the 24-year-old, however Ben Wright and North weathered the early troubles to offer a third-wicket stand of 59. 

Both were brisk to ambush anything detached and the limits started to stream. Wright hit seven fours in his 49, yet then edged behind off Buck -who was making his first presence of the period in the wake of recuperating from an upper foot region damage. 

However an association of 86 between North and Goodwin recaptured the drive for Glamorgan. 

The last was the first to his fifty, which fell off 56 balls and held 10 limits, and North soon stuck to this same pattern off 133 balls with nine fours. 

Buck irrevocably made the achievement by trapping Goodwin lbw with the final ball before tea, then after that Anthony Ireland -making his Leicestershire introduction -had North gotten at short additional blanket off a detached drive for 68. 

Terrible light sent the players off the field again at 6pm and, in spite of the fact that they gave back 25 minutes after the fact, just four more balls were rocked the bowling alley before play was deserted for the day.