The ex-England seamer takes a second-innings 5 for 40 as the Cardiff club are beaten inside the first hour on day three
Sophia Gardens (third day of four): Glamorgan 122 & 132, Middlesex 336 - Middlesex won by an innings and 82 runs
Middlesex wrapped up victory against Glamorgan by an innings and 82 runs inside the first hour of the third day of their LV= Insurance County Championship match in Cardiff.
Glamorgan started the day still needing 110 runs to make Middlesex bat again but having seen the visitors' tail put on 226 runs in their innings there would have been a glimmer of hope.
Those ambitions faded very fast as two wickets fell within the first three overs of the day with Toby Roland-Jones claiming his first five-wicket haul of the season before Tom Helm took two wickets before the clock struck midday.
Middlesex finish the match with 22 points to Glamorgan’s three after the visitors put in a near-perfect performance on second and third days.
The two Glamorgan not out batsmen at the start of the day were Sam Northeast and Michael Neser and it needed to be those two who put a real dent in the deficit.
Tom Helm grabbed two wickets on the third morning (Alex Davidson/Getty Images)
But that is not what Glamorgan got. Both were dismissed by Roland-Jones within the space of eight balls, Northeast edging to second slip and Neser caught at mid-on.
With just nine runs added to the overnight score, Glamorgan were eight wickets down with Middlesex still over a hundred runs in front.
It was Helm who wrapped things up, first trapping Timm van der Gugten lbw before bowling Michael Hogan when Glamorgan’s number 11 had a massive swing at a ball that crashed into his stumps.
The performance of the Middlesex bowlers will leave them with some interesting selection issues going forward. Roland-Jones, Helm, Martin Andersson and Shaheen Shah Afridi were all excellent in this game. With Ethan Bamber and Tim Murtagh waiting in the wings, it will be interesting to see who misses out in the coming matches.
For Glamorgan, it will be a case of the team who were on the field in this match finding a way to replicate their performances from the victory over Nottinghamshire in the last round of the County Championship.
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