Ian Saxelby led Gloucestershire to maximum batting points on a rain-shortened second day of the LV County Championship match against Glamorgan at Bristol.

After showers had delayed play until 4.40pm, Gloucestershire took their overnight 337 for five on to 400 for nine declared - before Glamorgan reached 35 for no wicket in reply.

Gloucestershire lost three wickets for 10 runs in the first seven overs. But Saxelby, with six fours in his 33, and Jon Lewis, with an unbeaten 10, rallied the innings in a ninth-wicket partnership of 52.

Garnett Kruger dismissed Alex Gidman, who had added just six to his overnight 122, and Steve Adshead to finish as Glamorgan's most successful bowler with three for 77.

Glamorgan again delayed taking the second new ball when play finally got under way, and it proved a wise decision as Kruger and David Harrison quickly took three wickets.

James Franklin fell to the first ball of the second over, and his first delivery of the day, when he clipped a low catch to Will Bragg at midwicket off Harrison.

Gidman was the next to go when he skied a catch to Herschelle Gibbs at backward-point off Kruger.

The same bowler struck again four overs later when Adshead, in his first championship innings of the season, carved a high catch to wicketkeeper Mark Wallace to depart for one.

Saxelby broke Glamorgan's stranglehold on proceedings by taking three off-side fours from a Harrison over, the first of which went to the third-man boundary and gave Gloucestershire a fourth batting point.

Glamorgan captain James Dalrymple finally opted to take the new ball in the 94th over, but he had to wait seven overs before the productive partnership between Saxelby and Lewis was broken.

Saxelby had taken Gloucestershire to within one run of 400 when he played across the line to James Harris and was lbw to the teenage seamer.

Lewis carved a single to third-man off the following over from Kruger and, with maximum batting points secured, Gloucestershire captain Gidman declared the innings.

Glamorgan openers Gareth Rees and Will Bragg were left with 11 overs to negotiate - and they got through them with few alarms.