Notts within sight of first championship win at Trent Bridge since May 1999

Nottinghamshire's best day of the season has left them in striking distance of a first Championship win at Trent Bridge since May 1999. After taking their own first innings score to 371 and picking up one Glamorgan wicket during the morning session, they took nine more wickets in the period between lunch and tea to bowl out their visitors for just 187.

Following on, 184 behind, Glamorgan fared little better at the second time of asking. Without a run on the board Robert Croft should have gone. A casual flick off his legs flew straight to Paul Johnson at square leg. Inexplicably the `dolly' went down - to rub salt in the wounds with Johnson holding his head in his hands and the ball at his feed the batsmen ran a cheeky single.

The unlucky bowler Paul Franks soon had cause for double celebration dismissing Croft and Powell in the same over. The off spinner tried to cut a rising delivery and for the second time in three hours was taken by Hewison in the gully.

Michael Powell clipped his first ball for four and then lost his off stump to the next. Franks jubilation was understandable if not, perhaps, a little excessive.

Things got even better for the England one-day international when he picked up the prize scalp of Matthew Maynard in his next over - again it was the off stump that took the pounding and again it preceded wild scenes of delight.

At 20-3 the departure of Glamorgan's captain would surely have dented the spirit of the dressing room but their day of suffering ended shorly afterwards when bad light halted the day's play, with still 28 overs remaining.

Franks had taken all three wickets, at a personal cost of just eight runs. In Glamorgan's first innings the pick of the Notts bowlers was AJ Harris, who bagged 5-69 to take his haul for the season to 40.

With still two full days remaining Notts could yet revive their fading hopes of promotion from division two.