A JUBILANT Robert Croft insisted titles are getting harder for Glamorgan to win following after his side wrapped up the totesport League against Lancashire.

Amid emotional scenes in front of 5,000 packed into the tiny Rhos-on-Sea ground Croft led from the front with a brilliant one-day 100.

But the skipper believes that the opposition no longer give Glamorgan an inch as they may have done more than a decade ago.

"When we won in 1993 there was little expectation associated with us and now people expect a lot more from us,'' he said.

"Everything we get now we have to strive hard for.''

"To get through the Lancashire clash was tough especially after we lost Matthew Elliott before the game. "A special mention must go to Mick Lewis because he has come in and filled the boots of Mike Kasprowicz. That is tough in itself, but to fill them in a potential final is remarkable.

"I am waiting to wake up and it is three o'clock in the morning and the seagulls are singing outside the window and I think this game has not been played yet.''

But when he woke up today he will remember a very impressive display.

And the relatively easy victory march yesterday mirrored Glamorgan's whole totesport League campaign.

From start to finish they were never really troubled in keeping their victory bid to 4.86 an over.

From the start Croft tucked into anything slightly off line, clipping four after four through the backward point area on his way to 50 in 35 balls.

Croft made up for the absence of leading one-day run-getter Matthew Elliott.

But there was still much to do when Glamorgan lost Alex Wharf and Mike Powell in the space of an over.

The old heads of Croft and Maynard, however, ensured there was only going to be one winner. They put on 121 in 24 overs as Carl Hooper and his bowlers ran out of ideas.

Both Maynard and Croft were out before the end ensuring each one got a standing ovation.

And the stage was left clear for Adrian Dale to poignantly strike the winning runs in his last season with the club. To restrict Lancashire to just 218-7 in their 45 overs, after putting them in, was an impressive effort on such a small ground.

All the more impressive that they had been without their two one-day strike bowlers Michael Kasprowicz (international commitments) and Andrew Davies (side injury).

But debutant Mick Lewis and David Harrison stepped into the breach and strangled the Lancashire top order reducing them to 38-3 in the first 12 overs.

Glamorgan's tight bowling was responsible for Lightning skipper Carl Hooper's rash demise - driving Darren Thomas down the throat of long-off.

At 62-4 Lancashire were left well behind the eight ball until Dinesh Mongia and Chris Schofield dug Lancashire a little way out of a massive hole.

It said something that at a ground where sixes are usually a premium Lancashire did not strike a maximum until Glen Chapple dispatched Alex Wharf over the boundary in the penultimate over.

But it was too little to late as was proved around two hours later.