Holders Notts earn big victory over Glamorgan

Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Trent Bridge (day four) Nottinghamshire 279: Haynes 100 & 311-9 dec: Clarke 136; Gorvin 3-55 Glamorgan 113 & 285: Tribe 85; Patterson-White 3-13 Notts (20 pts) beat Glamorgan (3 pts) by 192 runs Match scorecard Nottinghamshire closed out their first win of the County Championship season as Glamorgan, tasked with scoring 478 to secure a highly improbable victory, were bowled out for 285. Asa Tribe, unbeaten on 82 overnight, was dismissed in the third over of the morning but promoted Glamorgan at least demanded patience and perseverance of the defending champions, who collected 20 points to go second in the early-season Division One table, winning by 192 runs. Starting on 132-2, Glamorgan were 200-7 at lunch but kept Nottinghamshire in the field until just before 16:00 BST, thanks to a show of defiance led by Mason Crane, their leg-spinner, who batted two-and-a-half hours for his 39.

Crane was last man out, leg before to left-arm spinner Liam Patterson-White, who finished with 3-13. There were two wickets for all-rounder Lyndon James, who did not start this match but came in as a last-day replacement after Australian bowler Fergus O'Neill dropped out with a rib injury. O'Neill had taken five wickets in the match and played an important role with the bat too, his first-innings half-century helping Nottinghamshire recover from 103-6 to 279 all out after being put in on a difficult pitch.

Jack Haynes led that fightback with his first century of the season, matched by Joe Clarke in the second innings, whose 136 was key to giving his side a commanding lead after Glamorgan had been dismissed for 113. Glamorgan went into the final day theoretically needing 346 more to win. Surviving 96 overs nine down or fewer was a more realistic target, so losing three wickets in the first five overs of the day was not the kind of start that was needed.

The news that O'Neill would miss the remainder might have been a source of comfort but Hutton and Dillon Pennington, who had combined effectively on the third evening after 52 overs were lost to rain, continued where they had left off. Pennington struck first, having Kiran Carlson caught behind with a fine ball that took the outside edge of the Glamorgan captain's defensive bat, before Hutton landed two major blows in the space of nine deliveries. The bigger of the two came first as Tribe, who had survived a fierce test of his technique and temperament before Sunday's close, shaped to play square into the off side only to bottom-edge into his stumps.