JAMIE Dalrymple scored 44 against his former Glamorgan teammates at Lord's but he and Middlesex suffered a chastening day as Glam took charge.
Opting to bat first, Middlesex were hustled out for just 150 with James Harris taking five for 41 three days after his 21st birthday. Then, in the evening sunshine, Glamorgan replied with 151 for one with Gareth Rees unbeaten on 55 and Will Bragg still there on 57.
The game was billed as Dalrymple's return, with the former England one-day international making his first Champion-ship appearance back for his old club Middlesex after three years in Wales.
He walked out of Glamorgan when he was sacked as captain last November, yet not even his desire to get one over his old employers could save Middlesex.
He walked in at 33 for four after Harris had blitzed a top order which included England Test captain Andrew Strauss in a new-ball spell of three for 18.
Dalrymple and Neil Dexter bandaged the gaping wound for a while in a stand worth 72 in 20 overs, but Harris returned after lunch to have Middlesex skipper Dexter caught at second slip.
And when Dalrymple was caught at third slip off Graham Wagg the innings did not last much longer.
Harris won an lbw appeal to send back John Simpson and complete his well-deserved five-wicket haul and, after Berg ran himself out, it was left to Will Owen to wrap up the innings with the wickets of Tim Murtagh and Corey Collymore.
Harris was masterly in his control of seam movement on a sunny morning. Strauss was lbw to one that nipped in down the Lord's slope and left-handers Chris Rogers and Scott Newman were both taken at the wicket edging deliveries that were angled across them and kept going up the slope.
Dawid Malan was the other Middlesex batsman not to survive the new ball, edging Wagg to second slip.
When it was Glamorgan's turn to bat, skipper Alviro Petersen's bright 29 was ended by a skied pull at Toby Roland-Jones which looped gently up to point.
But Glamorgan's reply grew ever healthier as Rees and Bragg put the true pitch conditions into perspective in their three-figure stand.
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