What a difference a day makes, says the song

"What a difference a day makes", goes the song, and that was the feeling on the second day of Hampshire's Frizzell Championship match with Glamorgan at The Rose Bowl, when 14 Hampshire wickets fell to leave the home side in desperate trouble, facing an innings defeat.

The County Championship was never supposed to be similar to 20/20 however seven Hampshire batsmen fell during the day, having got started, only to fall in the twenties.

Dimitri Mascarenhas took the final wicket to fall of the Glamorgan innings, but as Hampshire started their reply they looked to the sky, which the previous day was permanantly blue, today was overcast and humid, made for swing bowlers. In Michael Kasprowicz they had just that, as the batsmen fell at steady intervals. Kenway, Adams, Crawley, Francis and Tremlett reached their 20 milestones, and when Hampshire were invited to bat again, Kenway and Adams for a second time joined in.

Kasprowitz a strong swing bowler bowled long spells and was rewarded with a 5-wicket haul, as Hampshire finished with a woeful 185.

Invited to follow on, this time it was skipper Robert Croft who did the damage, taking four wickets to leave the home side in the mire. Simon Katich broke the 20 run hoodoo to reach his half century, but he fell in the last over of the day, trying to pull Croft to deep mid-wicket only to find Alex Wharf waiting for the catch.