Glamorgan 305 (Carlson 119, van der Gugten 54, Raine 4-65) and 104 for 6 (Lloyd 31, Coughlin 3-27) f/o drew with Durham 471 for 9 dec (Carse 91, Trevaskis 79, Robinson 73, Jones 69, Borthwick 59, Labuschagne 4-81)

In the Glamorgan second innings the Durham bowlers were well on top again as the home side reached 106 for 6 before a heavy rain shower brought play to close with 22 overs left to bowled.

Glamorgan will finish with nine points and Durham with 13, but the real winner was the weather which took almost two days’ play out of this match.

Carlson and van der Gugten batted brilliantly to take their team within touching distance of avoiding the follow on with a partnership of 110, a record ninth-wicket stand in matches between these two teams.

He slowed down a little on his way to his hundred, but it was another innings that held things together for his team. Against Gloucestershire he came in to bat with his team in trouble at 35 for 3, here his team were three down for just 60 runs. Both times a century dug his team out of a hole of their own making.

Carlson’s first innings of the day was ended when Liam Trevaskis dismissed him caught-and-bowled for 119.

Durham’s efforts to push for victory were hampered by Australian spinner Matt Kuhnemann’s tight back preventing him from taking the field on the final day, but they still managed to bundle Glamorgan out in time. Van der Gugten was the last man to fall for 54.

Carlson couldn’t repeat his first innings-heroics, he was dismissed for 7 in Glamorgan’s second dig when he was caught at leg slip by Graham Clark.

David Lloyd made 31 before he was caught hooking on the boundary to give Coughlan his third wicket and leave Glamorgan 66 for 5 with more than 30 overs left to be bowled. That become 96 for 6 when Chris Cooke edged through to the keeper off the bowling of Raine.

Shortly after the fall of Cooke’s wicket the rain brought play to a close with Durham left to rue a missed chance for a win with too much time lost for them to head back north with maximum points.