County Championship: Hampshire beat Northants by an innings and 270 runs

Hampshire paceman James Fuller has taken 11 wickets this season

Northamptonshire suffered the eighth heaviest County Championship defeat in their history as Hampshire's James Fuller helped skittle the hosts twice in the space of just three hours.

It brought Hampshire victory by an innings and 270 runs, their largest ever winning margin against Northamptonshire.

Following on after being bundled out for 149 before lunch, the hosts limped to 63 all out in their second innings at Wantage Road.

Fuller bagged the hosts' final four first-innings wickets to add to the two he took on Friday to finish with 6-37.

Wickets then continued to fall as Northamptonshire started their second innings; they slumped to 17-5 shortly before lunch. A total of nine wickets had fallen in the session, with Fuller reaching 200 career first-class wickets in the process.

Northamptonshire's batters had no answer against an unrelenting Hampshire attack who extracted plenty of bounce and found just enough movement to entice Northamptonshire's batters to play down the wrong line or prod at balls outside off-stump.

Josh Cobb's 44 was the one bright spot in Northamptonshire's first innings and only some lusty blows from Chris Tremain in the second meant they avoided their lowest ever total against Hampshire in first-class cricket.

Northamptonshire had resumed on 95-5, but were effectively six wickets down with keeper Lewis McManus unable to resume his innings after sustaining a broken finger on Friday.

Report supplied by ECB Reporters' Network.

Hampshire fast bowler James Fuller told BBC Radio Solent:

"The pitch was offering a little bit we knew if we could break the back of it early in that [morning] session, we could be going home on day three.

"It was potentially a harder week because we wouldn't have Keith [Barker] in the side and there was a lot of talk about having to bowl a few more overs.

"I'm happy just to be contributing. I kind of shouldered that responsibility and in the end we didn't have to bowl that many overs."

• Listen to full BBC Radio Solent interview with James Fuller