COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION TWO, Grace Road:
CLOSE OF PLAY, FINAL DAY: Match Drawn. Leicestershire 282 and 259-6, Glamorgan 218 (Leics 10pts, Glamorgan 8pts)

Taylor is the youngest Leicestershire player to get his 1,000 runs

Jimmy Taylor pressed his claims for an England Lions call-up this winter with 96 not out as Leicestershire climbed off the foot of the Division Two table.

Holding a lead of 85 runs at the start of the last day, the home side batted through the three sessions to reach 259-6 before the two teams shook hands.

Teenager Taylor was left four short of his fourth century of the summer.

But the nine points he helped earn were enough to lift Leicestershire above both Middlesex and Surrey in the table.

Glamorgan, still in with a chance of promotion, claimed eight points from the game.

It has been a remarkable season for 19-year-old Taylor who made his Leicestershire debut a year ago.

He played in the last three Championship games and totalled only 13 runs. But, this time round, he has featured in 12 matches, entering the Leicestershire record books by becoming the youngest player to score 1,000 championship runs in a season for the county.

His unbeaten 96 took his total to 1,148 and he averages nearly 72 having hit three hundreds, one of them a double century.

The former Shrewsbury School pupil also scored a century in the Friends Provident Trophy against Worcestershire, the county who had him on their books playing Second XI cricket in 2006 and 2007 but let him go.

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