Glamorgan completed a County Championship victory over Hampshire for the first time since 1991, and their first Division One win for 21 years, with an innings-and-68-run triumph on the final day at Utilita Bowl.<\/p>\n
The Welsh county only needed five wickets to secure 23 points on the south coast, and did so with more than a session to spare, despite Ben Brown holding them up with a magnificent 96.<\/p>\n
Glamorgan’s most recent of only four Division One victories came against Gloucestershire in 2005 but the manner of this victory – in a game they dominated from the moment they lost the toss – demonstrated a side which look very much at home back in the top tier.<\/p>\n
It was set up by Zain ul Hassan and Kiran Carlson’s colossal 318-run partnership, before Timm van der Gugten and Mason Crane tore through Hampshire on a 15-wicket third day.<\/p>\n
But they had to be patient as Brown stroked the ball around and eventually found team-mates to stick with him.<\/p>\n
In a similar match against Worcestershire last season, Brown batted the entire day to save a draw for his side but Felix Organ was undone by Jamie McIlroy nipping one back to pin him leg-before less than 15 minutes into the day.<\/p>\n
Scott Currie stuck around with Brown for over an hour before leg-spinner Mason Crane and had him lbw, and then Kyle Abbott caught, by a juggling first slip.<\/p>\n
It took another half an hour after lunch before Codi Yusuf had his off-stump taken away by Ryan Hadley.<\/p>\n
With only number 11 Sonny Baker left for company, Brown tried to bring up his century with a big drive but missed and Timm van der Gugten hit middle stump to confirm the win.<\/p>\n
Hampshire remain rock bottom of the table, with three home defeats already – and they have not won at home in the Championship since the opening round of last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan completed a County Championship victory over Hampshire for the first time since 1991, and their first Division…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}