Dismal Kent were thrashed by an innings and 161 runs in Rothesay County Championship Division 2 by Glamorgan in Canterbury on Sunday.
Asitha Fernando took 3-18 and Timm van der Gugten 3-33 as they dismissed Kent for 176 in their second innings, having enforced the follow-on after they had rolled them over for 212 first time around.
Chris Benjamin’s first innings score of 94 not out was the only positive for the hosts in a game the visitors dominated throughout, winning with a day and 29 overs to spare.
Kent head coach Adam Hollioake said: “We’re disappointed with the result, probably more than anybody else because we’re the ones responsible for it.
“We acknowledge that wasn’t good enough.
“The performance wasn’t good enough and, obviously, the result looks bad, as well.
“We just acknowledge that we have to do better.”
Home expectations were hardly high when Kent resumed on their overnight first-innings score of 156-8, with Benjamin unbeaten on 68, but for the first hour they showed some doggedness.
George Garrett was on 11 when he edged Fernando to second slip, but Kiran Carlson couldn’t take a head-high catch and Garrett made a sensible-looking 35 before he finally edged Zain ul-Hassan and was caught behind.
It left Benjamin’s hopes of a maiden Kent century relying on Kashif Ali and, although he trusted his partner enough to rotate the strike, Kashif managed just three before he was bowled by ul-Hassan.
Unsurprisingly, Glamorgan enforced the follow-on, but Harry Finch and Ben Compton looked comfortable enough until lunch, at which point it was 19-0.
Any thoughts that Kent might drag things into a fourth day, however, disintegrated in the afternoon session. Fernando got Ben Compton lbw for 19 and Daniel Bell-Drummond fell to Gorvin for five after a breath-taking one-handed grab by Carlson.
Finch nicked Fernando behind for 28 and the Sri Lankan then had Jack Leaning caught behind for a four-ball duck.
Although 18-year-old debutant Ekansh Singh avoided a pair, he fell for eight, caught behind off van der Gugten, and the Dutch international bowled Benjamin for seven and got Grant Stewart lbw for 16 from nine balls.
Tawanda Muyeye was lbw to James Harris for 41 and, by this stage, the only jeopardy was whether or not Glamorgan would manage to retrieve the over rate.
This explained why the celebrations were so muted when Matt Parkinson was caught-and-bowled by Ben Kellaway for four: a number of fans didn’t realise he was out until he walked off.
Kashif went down swinging, heaving Carlson for six over the Colin Cowdrey Stand and then pulling another one into a floodlight pylon.
He hit a third six over cow corner, but Glamorgan’s biggest-ever victory over Kent was secured when he pulled Kellaway to Govin and was caught on the midwicket boundary.
Kent will next face Gloucestershire in Bristol in their next red-ball game from Friday.
