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Toss
Hampshire win the toss and decide to bowl.
Team news
Glamorgan named an unchanged squad for the trip with on-loan Middlesex seamer Tom Helm again named in the 12-man party which also includes Ruaidhri Smith who missed out on the draw with Worcestershire in Cardiff.
Will Owen dropped out of the side to make way for Smith in one change. Australian seamer Michael Hogan is still missing after returning home for the birth of his second child.
Hogan will miss this four-day contest and the opening Twenty20 clash against Hampshire at the Aegas Bowl on Friday night before returning next week.
Hampshire:
J Adams (capt), M Carberry, L Dawson, J Vince, W Smith, J Gatting, S Ervine, M Bates, M Coles, K Abbott, J Tomlinson.
Glamorgan: J Rudolph, G Rees, W Bragg, M Goodwin, S Walters, J Allenby, M Wallace (capt), G Wagg, R Smith, D Cosker, T Helm.
History
Glamorgan will be looking to maintain their most promising start for 10 years after proving unbeaten in their first four games.
Besides their opening 10-wicket win against Surrey at the Oval and three draws this summer, they ended 2013 with a draw against Essex at Chelmsford and a victory over Gloucestershire at the Swalec Stadium, giving them an unbeaten six-match sequence in the four-day game.
But Mark Wallace’s side will know they have been outplayed in their last three matches with the weather and some dogged determination resulting in their hat-trick of draws.
In matches between the two teams at the Ageas Bowl, 2013 saw Glamorgan draw their Championship match at Hampshire’s headquarters before returning in September to complete a fine victory in the Yorkshire Bank40 semi-final which clinched a place in the final of the one-day competition.
However, Glamorgan have yet to record a Championship victory at Hampshire’s new headquarters, with their last first-class victory on Hampshire soil coming at Southampton in September 1991 when they won at the Northlands Road ground by seven wickets after the Welsh county had posted an impressive 504 in their first innings thanks to a career-best 243 by Matthew Maynard, plus 131 from Hugh Morris.
