THE sound of the Welsh national anthem blaring out around Sophia Gardens perhaps seemed a touch excessive for the second day of a County Championship match in early April.

Turned out that the noise was coming from the National Hockey Centre just across the road, where the Wales women were playing against Canada.

Peeking through a hole in the fence during the lunch break, while keeping an eye out for any lurking stewards, it looked as if the side in red - which could have been Wales or Canada - won on some sort of penalty shoot-out.

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Don’t know much about hockey, as Sam Cooke almost sang in Wonderful World, but at least it could be confidently stated that Glamorgan - having started day two on 99-4 after just 36 overs were possible on day one - were dismissed for 302.

Colin Ingram top-scored with 103 from 226 balls with 13 fours and a six, Ben Kellaway and Mason Crane hit fifties, and Jack White and Dom Bess each took three wickets.

Yorkshire reached 1-0 from 10 balls before bad light took the players off at one minute to six. Twenty minutes later, the day was called off, the skies a murky grey, the pavilion flags buffeting.

Of chief interest to Yorkshire heading into the day was whether Jonny Bairstow would keep wicket after he was hit on the right thumb the previous night. The answer was ‘no’ as Fin Bean continued behind the stumps on a morning blessed with welcome sunshine. In the absence of Bairstow, who did not want to make the injury any worse, Bess filled in as captain and Will Luxton acted as substitute fielder.

Ben Coad and George Hill shared duties with the ball as Ingram (41) and Kellaway (35) resumed a stand of 71, which had lifted Glamorgan from a groggy 28-4. That stand had climbed to 101 when Bess achieved the only breakthrough of the morning, tossing one up to bowl a driving Kellaway through the gate.

Bess should have had another with the final ball of the session only for Adam Lyth to spill Chris Cooke at slip when the batsman had 20. A good one from Matty Revis dismissed Cooke for 30, the ball cutting back to hit off stump.

Ingram fell to the second new ball, reaching his hundred by cover-driving Coad to the foot of the pavilion but edging his next delivery to Bean as he pushed forward. Lyth dropped another when Timm van der Gugten was reprieved on 21 at second slip off White, the batsman reaching 40 before Bess slipped another through the gate.

Logan van Beek, on debut, was the only bowler to go wicket-less but he claimed what might remain the catch of the season. He threw up a right hand to somehow snatch a top-edged pull from Andy Gorvin over his head off Hill, then peeled away in joyous celebration, dodging team-mates as if running through for a try.

Crane skied one up from Bess to long-on, where Revis did the rest to bring the innings to an end.