GLAMORGAN started their Specsavers County Championship season in disastrous fashion after being beaten inside two days at Northamptonshire.

Ben Sanderson took four second-innings wickets to set up victory by an innings and 22 runs in the Division Two match at Wantage Road.

Northamptonshire extended their lead to 209 runs in the morning session and wrapped up victory after tea, dismissing Glamorgan for 187 in their second innings.

The hosts took until August to win a Championship match last season but they got off the mark at the first attempt this time around, succeeding in the opening game of the season for the first time since 1995.

Sanderson claimed two wickets in his opening spell but it was his probing effort after lunch that caught the eye most - conditions eased and he gave nothing away.

Rory Kleinveldt again played his part with three wickets to finish with six in the match, while Nathan Buck rounded off a winning debut with the final scalp 11 overs before the scheduled close.

Glamorgan suffered against the new ball in 45 minutes before lunch.

Jacques Rudolph, after a confident start getting to 21, attempted to pull Sanderson and edged to wicketkeeper Adam Rossington.

Nick Selman defended Kleinveldt from the crease and played into his stumps, then Sanderson had David Lloyd held low at first slip by Ben Duckett to complete a pair.

Reeling at 32 for three at lunch, Glamorgan lost a fourth wicket six overs into the afternoon session as Sanderson slid a delivery back into the right-handed Aneurin Donald, trapping him lbw for 15.

A partnership was desperately required to try to avoid humiliation and Colin Ingram and Chris Cooke settled to share a half-century for the fifth wicket.

However, Cooke's patience against the probing Sanderson ended as he looked to pull a rare short ball but only found Steven Crook at midwicket. It was reward for the bowler's persistence, his 19 overs yielding only 31 runs.

Ingram was patient and drove well when the opportunity arose but in the final over before tea he was deceived by a flighted delivery from left-arm spinner Graeme White that turned from the footholds and was bowled for 47.

Craig Meschede handed White a second wicket when he swung wildly and lost his middle stump, before Kleinveldt returned to have Harry Podmore caught behind and Kieran Carlson caught hooking at long leg. Marchant de Lange then slapped Buck to mid-on to end the match.

Earlier, the hosts had extended their first-innings lead to 209 in 16.1 overs in the morning.

Kleinveldt failed to fire again after his 23-ball half-century on the first evening, adding 15 more to his overnight score before mistiming a drive to extra-cover. He walked off for 86 and the wait for a maiden first-class century for the county continues.

Crook fell with the seventh ball of the morning when he was leg before wicket to Lukas Carey and White was held at second slip by Selman to hand de Lange a second wicket of the innings.

The same bowler was driven for four by Sanderson to bring up a third batting bonus point and ensure Northamptonshire begin the campaign with a 22-point haul.