Paul Terry backed Dimitri Mascarenhas to have his best season for Hampshire with bat and ball after the rain-affected championship match against Glamorgan ended in a draw at Sophia Gardens.

Mascarenhas capitalised on a flat wicket in scoring the third first class hundred of his career off just 78 balls on Thursday.

The 25-year-old needed only 20 balls for his second fifty, becoming the second Hampshire centurion of the season following Nic Pothas's unbeaten 146 at Worcester last week.

Mascarenhas's exploits allowed skipper John Crawley to declare on 531 for 6, a record for Hampshire against Glamorgan.

All-rounder Mascarenhas grew up in Australia after being born in London and has spent the last few winters in Western Australia, playing for Melville CC and training at Terry's Auscricket Academy.

Hampshire manager Terry said: "Dimi has got a lot of ability, he's shown that plenty of times but he just needs to get more out of himself with his batting especially, put more good starts into big scores and be more consistent.

"He's been playing a long time, he's now one of the senior players and we haven't seen the best of him yet in terms of consistent results.

"It's a good start for him with the bat but I'm sure there's more to come from him with the bat and with the ball."

Glamorgan were 288-3 when play resumed on Saturday but the game was abandoned as a draw in the afternoon after the home side added 124 runs in the 32.3 overs that were possible.

The Welsh county found the track as batter-friendly as the visitors, but Chris Tremlett bounced back well from the mauling he took from Matthew Maynard on Friday evening

Maynard had hit him for five successive boundaries and a hooked six but the next day 6ft 7in Tremlett had the veteran batsman caught by Shaun Udal at mid wicket and also trapped England Academy teammate Mark Wallace leg before.

Tremlett finished with 2-13 from his six overs on Saturday and Terry added: "Chris came back well, it was part of the learning curve for him. He's going to have bad days but he's shown that he can bounce back from them.

"The batting was the real positive from this game, we've got plenty of batsmen in form now.

"The wicket was pretty good all the time but it was not a very good cricket wicket, it was a bit too flat. Ideally there would have been something in it for the bowlers."

Wasim Akram took the other wicket to fall on Saturday, bowling Michael Powell, who had added 11 runs to his overnight 74 not out. Powell struck 11 fours off 177 balls and the partnership with Maynard produced 166 runs for Glamorgan.

Maynard added 49 to his overnight 63 before he was out in the morning session. His second championship century in as many matches included 17 fours and prompted calls for an England recall.

Robert Croft and David Harrison came together and saw out play until lunch with the score at 412-6.

Rain began to fall steadily during the lunch interval and became heavier during the afternoon, at which point the match was abandoned as a draw.

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