Prest’s dismissal, lbw going back, was Crane’s first red ball wicket at the Utilita Bowl for 1,080 days, his second followed seven balls later when Brown – who had already been dropped – edged to slip.

Before Crane’s googly could see off Abbott, Van der Gugten ploughed through Felix Organ and Scott Currie – Hampshire losing five wickets in 54 balls either side of lunch.

It fell on 18-year-old Mayes to give the innings some respectability, scoring a fine maiden first-class fifty with flowing strokes.

He added 43 with Codi Yusuf but could not haul Hampshire anywhere near the follow-on target as Ul Hassan and one-ball, one-wicket hero Kiran Carlson rounded things out.

It all had a sense of deja vu for Hampshire. They only claimed 12 batting points in 2025 – the joint lowest in the country – and only have one in four matches this season.

It also did not help that leading scorer Jake Lehmann had returned to Australia for personal reasons and the highly-experienced Liam Dawson missed this match with an abdominal injury.

Hampshire were immediately asked to bat again, with their 322-run deficit, and got as far as the second over before Gubbins shouldered arms at Jamie McIlroy and was bowled.

Van der Gugten added his fifth and sixth of the day when Prest edged behind and Mayes chopped on, while Albert fell into Ryan Hadley’s trap to hook to deep square.

Crane joined the second-innings party as another wrong-un pinned Middleton leg-before to complete a 15-wicket day for Glamorgan.