Glamorgan were made to wait for their first win of back in the County Championship Division One as they played out a bore draw with Leicestershire.

Both sides piled on the runs in the first innings, with the visitors responding to Glamorgan’s 440 with a mammoth 585-7 declared.

Asa Tribe, with some help from Zain-ul-Hassan and Kiran Carlson, saw out the remaining overs on the fourth and final day to secure a 12-point draw.

The two newly promoted sides played out their first clash in the top division since 2001 in a strung-out, three-innings draw.

Glamorgan began Day One in shakey fashion, reduced to 55-3 and then 91-4 on a pitch that would prove to be in favour of batting. The ever excellent Ian Holland and young tyro Josh Hull saw off Glamorgan’s top, four leaving captain Carlson and Sean Dickson to pick up the pieces.

The experienced pair put on 126 for the fifth wicket, before Carlson was cruelly run out on 95, five short of a first Division One hundred.

Dickson too fell in the 90s, caught behind off the bowling of Ben Green. When Dickson went at 265-7, Glamorgan again looked like limping to an underpar score.

However, the tailend duo of Timm van der Gugten and Mason Crane managed to put miles in the Leicestershire bowlers’ legs while scoring at a serene pace.

van der Gugten was eventually dismissed for 52, having made 133 in partnership with Crane, who was hunting down his maiden professional hundred.

Andy Gorvin and Ryan Hadley managed to hang around long enough to see Crane into the 90s, but the leg-spinner went the same way as Dickson and Carlson before him, stumped by Ben Cox off the bowling of New Zealand international Ajaz Patel for an agonising first class best of 99.

Not deterred by Glamorgan’s wagging tail, Leicestershire’s top order knocked a good chunk off the score on the afternoon of Day Two, ending Saturday on 215-1, despite the loss of Australian overseas Jake Weatherald to injury, having made a hundred.

On Day Three, the visitors turned the screw, with half century scores for Rishi Patel (79), Ian Holland (79), Stephen Eskinazi (50), and Ben Cox (68*) supplementing Jonny Tattersall’s 112.

Captain Holland declared with 52 overs remaining on Day Four, hoping that Patel could run through the Glamorgan order and secure an unlikely victory.

Despite the early loss of Eddie Byrom, Tribe’s 67* from 140 balls and handy scores from Zain-ul-Hassan and Carlson saw Glamorgan through to the close.

Next up for the Welsh county is a trip to the Utilita Bowl to face Hampshire, who are bottom of the Division One table after three rounds of action.

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