Hants top table with crushing win

County Championship D1, Rose Bowl, day four: Hampshire 401-8d & 80-1 beat Glamorgan 229 & 250 by nine wickets (Points: Hants 22, Glamorgan 3)

Match scorecard

Hampshire surged to the top of the County Championship for the first time since 1992 with a big win over Division One strugglers Glamorgan.

Resuming 95 behind with nine wickets intact, Glamorgan quickly subsided to Sean Ervine, who took 5-60.

Mike Powell top-scored with a watchful 68 but Glamorgan were all out for 250, leaving Hampshire needing 79 to win.

Simon Katich hit three early fours as 21 came from Simon Jones' first two overs and victory came quickly.

Hampshire had 32 overs to get their runs, and needed less than half of them.

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Katich was the one man to fall, as Robert Croft struck a consolation blow for the Welsh county.

John Crawley hit the winning runs with his fourth boundary, in an innings of 24 from 26 balls.

Rash hook

Ervine had come on during the afternoon session to take four wickets in five overs, dismissing Powell, David Harrison, Darren Thomas and last man Simon Jones.

Powell hit eight fours in his innings, holding out for almost three and a half hours before rashly hooking Ervine to square leg where Greg Lamb held the catch.

The best catch of the day belonged to Michael Brown who held a steepling catch running back from point as Thomas attempted to hook a short delivery.

Hampshire managed throughout the afternoon without captain Shane Warne, who was nursing a back injury.

Jones was the last to go, lifting Ervine to third man where substitute Shaun Udal clutched the catch.

Glamorgan have now recorded five losses in five matches this term.