Glamorgan will regroup over the weekend after their 328 run defeat by Yorkshire in the County Championship match at Swansea.

"Nobody likes to lose, but we must take our hats off to Yorkshire," said Glamorgan captain Steve James. "They put in a much better performance than us and thoroughly outplayed us. We have got to stick our hands up and say that Yorkshire got too many runs in the first innings - 280 was way above par on quite a sporting pitch."

"When it was our turn to bat, Chris Silverwood bowled superbly early on and we were three down for virtually nothing. From then on we were chasing the game, and in the second innings, they began 180 ahead and we knew it would be difficult batting from that position. Our eventual target was to score 454 in over five sessions, but I could never see us batting for that length of time because the ball was still doing plenty."

Whilst Glamorgan have never lost before by so many runs in a County Championship match, their defeat by Yorkshire is not their heaviest in the competition. The table below lists the four heaviest Championship defeats, all recorded during the inter-war period:

Innings and 331 runs    v Surrey                at Cardiff Arms Park, 1936
Innings and 327 runs    v Nottinghamshire       at Trent Bridge, 1929
Innings and 270 runs    v Sussex                at Horsham, 1923
Innings and 258 runs    v Yorkshire             at Cardiff Arms Park, 1922

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