Report Peter Handscomb, Lewis Hill guide Leicestershire's reply Glamorgan chip away five wickets with new ball looming ECB Reporters Network 25-May-2024 • 14 mins ago Lewis Hill flicks the ball into the leg side • Getty Images Leicestershire 280 for 5 (Handscomb 102, Hill 92) trail Glamorgan 387 (Byrom 86, Carlson 80, Northeast 61, Currie 5-64) by 107 runs Peter Handscomb' s second century of the season helped Leicestershire reach 280 for five in reply to Glamorgan's 387 on day two of their Vitality County Championship match at the Uptonsteel County Ground. The Australian Test batter finished unbeaten on 102 after sharing a fourth-wicket stand of 141 with captain Lewis Hill , who made 92, although Glamorgan remain in a strong position in the match with a lead of 107 and the chance to bowl with a new ball only five overs old when they resume on day three. Earlier, Leicestershire seamer Scott Currie had recorded the first five-wicket haul of his first-class career, finishing with five for 64.
Handscomb, who signed a two-year contract last year after a successful first season with Leicestershire, has started the season in impressive form, with 547 runs already to his name after scoring 51 or higher in six of his eight innings so far in the first half of the Division Two programme. He reached today's hundred from 160 balls with his 12th four, driven down the ground off James Harris. Currie needed just one delivery at the start of the second morning to claim the fifth wicket h.
