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Glamorgan resumed on 186-5, still 85 runs short of making Middlesex bat again, with the home side in a hurry to wrap the game up given the poor weather forecast for the afternoon.<\/p>\n
But Middlesex managed just two wickets in the first session despite Roland-Jones striking early on an overcast morning, as Kiran Carlson looked disappointed to have been given out caught behind.<\/p>\n
Timm van der Gugten defied the bowlers for 70 minutes for his 28 before Dane Paterson bowled him with the second delivery of the new ball.<\/p>\n
Cooke survived a couple of strong lbw shouts from Roland-Jones but he and Ned Leonard, whose previous best score was 16, nudged Glamorgan precariously ahead the over after lunch. <\/p>\n
The eighth-wicket pair settled in with a partnership of 88 and were starting to play their shots, causing Middlesex some frustration.<\/p>\n
Brookes got the long-awaited breakthrough when he won an lbw verdict against Cooke after his gritty three and a half hour stay. <\/p>\n
Leonard’s valiant effort ended in the next over when he tried to reverse-sweep persevering spinner Zafar Gohar and was bowled, and Brookes had Shoaib Bashir caught as the end came quickly.<\/p>\n
Max Holden was promoted to finish the game off quickly, hitting Leonard’s first ball for six and his fourth to mid-off, before bad light and rain interrupted at 16-1 off 3.3 overs. <\/p>\n
Middlesex deserved the chance to seal their victory but had to endure a protracted delay after tea with the hover-cover on, and the umpires and ground staff waiting in the middle until the resumption at 17:25 BST.<\/p>\n
Stevie Eskinazi and Leus Du Plooy wasted no time in getting the required 43 off a further 4.2 overs, Du Plooy finishing the match with two leg-side sixes off Leonard into the Mound Stand in the space of three balls. <\/p>\n
Middlesex travel to Derby on Friday, 25 April, while Glamorgan sit out the next round before hosting Derbyshire a week later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n