CHRIS DENT'S heroics with the bat helped Gloucestershire gain a draw in their final LV= Championship match of the season which ended at Bristol's County Ground on Friday.

Dent's innings of 268 was the highest individual score by any Gloucestershire batsman in matches against Glamorgan since the Second World War, eclipsing the 254 made by Andrew Symonds at Abergavenny in 1995.

His stand of 166 with James Fuller, who registered a career-best 73 from 99 balls, represented a club record for the eighth wicket in matches against Glamorgan, surpassing the 128 mustered by Mark Hardinges and Ashley Noffke at Bristol in 2007.

Dent comfortably bettered his previous highest first-class score of 203 not out, made against Cardiff MCCU in 2014 and, in the process becoming the only Gloucestershire player to pass 1,000 first-class runs this season.

But unbeaten centuries from Colin Ingram and Chris Cooke batted Glamorgan to safety on the final afternoon.

By the time the players shook hands on a draw at just before 4.20pm, the visitors had reached 365-3 in their second innings and led by 240. Gloucestershire took 13 points, while their opponents claimed 12.

Ingram was 101 not out and Cooke unbeaten on 102, with their fourth-wicket partnership worth 180.

During the tea interval 24-year-old seam bowler Tom Hampton, formerly with Middlesex, was presented with his Gloucestershire county cap.

Of his wonderful knock which was part of Gloucestershire's first innings total of 558 double centurion Chris Dent said: “I tried not to look at the scoreboard. I was more concerned about maintaining concentration and playing the shots I would usually play.

“I did notice when I went past my previous championship best score I thought to myself ‘you don’t get many chances to score a double hundred, so try and make the most of it'.

“Batting with James Fuller was great and I really wanted him to get his hundred. I kept telling him I would stay there for him, because I was worried that he would be left stranded. In the end, he didn’t quite make it, but it was a great knock all the same.”

Gloucestershire head coach Richard Dawson said: "It was unusual for so many runs to be made on a Bristol pitch and in the end Glamorgan batted well.

"We had probably expended a lot of emotional energy going into the game, with what happened at Lord's last weekend, so I am happy enough with the draw.

"I would like us to have won more Championship games this season. We know we are capable of beating anyone, but we need to be more consistent and that will be the aim next year."