Barnard wrecks Glamorgan a second time for two-day Warwickshire win

Warwickshire made a statement to their title rivals with a dominant win over Glamorgan inside two days by an innings and 257 runs.

Glamorgan were bowled out for 69 and 65 to record the fifth-largest defeat (by runs) in their history as Warwickshire wrapped up the result inside inside five sessions. Ed Barnard took 5 for 13 to back up Ethan Bamber's first-innings five-wicket haul as the hosts were dismantled inside just 26.1 overs in the second innings.

Sam Hain and Barnard joined Will Young with half-centuries in Warwickshire's innings as they piled on a 322-run lead in making 391 all out.

Glamorgan's defeat makes for three losses and one draw since the return of the Championship and they now find themselves dragged into a relegation scrap in their worst form of the season. Warwickshire will temporarily move top as they await results from Nottinghamshire and Somerset.

Returning on 154 for 3, Warwickshire were already comfortably in the driving seat and with one hand on 16 points, but the questions would lie in the bonus points column.

Vansh Jani was on the wrong end of a nip-backer from Timm van der Gugten for the first wicket to fall in the day but success for the home bowlers stopped there. Barnard and Hain both looked set for big scores until Mason Crane got one to turn for Hain and Warwickshire skipper Barnard then holed out off the part-time offerings of Kiran Carlson.

Kai Smith helped the tail to wag with 49 not out as Warwickshire claimed a third batting point, while Chris Woakes' sprightly 23 got him past 7000 first-class career runs. Ben Kellaway's 3 for 79 was the best appearance on the scorecard for Glamorgan across the three innings.

In their attempts to wipe out the deficit, Asa Tribe never looked comfortable although he top-scored with 27 before his wicket fell at 42 for 2. From then on, Carlson padded up to an Olly Hannon-Dalby nip-backer and Barnard did for the rest on a pitch that appeared to have no demons just an hour earlier.

Fewer than 10 overs separated Tribe's dismissal to when van der Gugten was the last man to go, a fourth duck on the innings scorecard for Glamorgan's biggest defeat since 1936 and a combined total of 134 for 20.