Due to the loss of a day and a half to rain, not to mention Jamie Dalrymple's responsible 72 yesterday, Glamorgan and Surrey continue to have identical records at the wrong end of Division Two of the County Championship. Dalrymple batted for 207 minutes and faced 162 balls. The only time the former Middlesex man opened the door to the visitors was when he just managed to get home after scampering a two to deep backward square leg to bring up his fifty. The Glamorgan skipper has now scored two hundreds and two half-centuries in his last five championship innings.

Without him, the hosts, resuming at 136-4, might have struggled to get the further 83 runs they required to make the game safe. As on the third evening, the main threat was Jade Dernbach, who finished with figures of 6-82 from 23 overs and outshone Surrey's new-ball imports. As is his wont, Andre Nel's opening gambit was to attempt to rough up Dalrymple and Ben Wright. Wright's response was to pull the South African for four, though not before his captain had despatched Dernbach to the cover boundary.

Glamorgan's fifth wicket pair put on 62 in 100 minutes before the introduction of Ryan Harris to the Brown Caps' attack brought the breakthrough the visitors had been searching for - Wright being taken behind, swishing at short ball that was too close to his body to even be thinking about cutting.

Dalrymple celebrated his fifty by straight driving Ryan Harris for four, but, worryingly for Glamorgan, lacked support. Mark Wallace pushed forward to Dernbach to be caught behind. That made it 215-6, which became 229-8 due to two wonderful catches by Mark Butcher either side of lunch. James Harris, whose cover driven four off Dernbach took the Welshmen past the follow-on target, was brilliantly caught low to the Surrey captain's left at slip off Murtaza Hussain. After the break Dernbach picked up a fifth wicket when Robert Croft's thick outside edge was snapped up to Butcher's right at first slip.

Dalrymple cut Dernbach for four, but was caught off the very next ball by Nel, who had just been posted to the third man boundary. Ryan Harris picked up a second wicket on his Surrey debut by having Garnett Kruger caught in the slips, though not before 33 runs had been added for the hosts' tenth wicket.

Kruger capped a disappointing match from Scott Newman's perspective by bowling the left-hander off an inside edge. Adam Shantry then got one to hold its line to Michael Brown. But Ramprakash and Butcher dug in for over an hour to ensure that Surrey came away from the match with far more positives than negatives. Unfortunately, the former was dismissed for his lowest score to date in this season's County Championship - thirty-five - when he gave Croft a low return catch just before the teams shook hands on a draw.

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