NIC POTHAS blamed his "amateurish" teammates for Hampshire's fifth defeat in six one-day league games.

Hampshire's bowlers had to rush towards the end of the Glamorgan innings in the knowledge that they would be docked six runs if they did not begin the last over at 7.20pm.

As it transpired, Glamorgan hit the winning runs off the last ball of the penultimate over, which was bowled by Shane Warne, but Pothas reckons Hampshire's slow over rate was still costly.

He said: "To have your main strike bowler running back to his mark to bowl is uncalled for. Alan Mullally is a one-day specialist and Shane Warne is one of the best one-day bowlers in the world and for them to have to run back to their mark to bowl because other guys have been slow is inexcusable, it wasn't good enough.

"It prevented the guys from concentrating on what they were meant to do and it was really frustrating for Warney, who wasn't able to have the time to set fields and do what he does best because we didn't get through our overs quick enough.

"Warney is the most competitive bloke around and most of us are like that, but we just need 11 like that."

Wicketkeeper Pothas reckons Hampshire's attitude was also to blame for Glamorgan's spectacular start with the bat.

He added: "We reckon 180 from 45 overs is par at the Rose Bowl so we were happy with 208 from 37 but we didn't start off very well, we were complacent and Glamorgan are that good a side that that wasn't a good train of thought to go out on.

"Once they made that start we were always behind the mark when it came to getting our overs in, which is rubbish.

"We're professionals, we know what we're meant to be doing in the field. It's the keeper's responsibility to get us through but you can only spoon-feed professional cricketers so much.

"People know we have to be finished by such a time and people know the time's on the board - so if we can't finish in time we deserve to be losing games.

"We started off very unprofessionally and we finished unprofessionally and in the middle we weren't too bad. We've only got ourselves to blame."

Michael Clarke, who played his last game of the season for Hampshire, said: "It was a little bit frustrating but we all gave 100 per cent and batted really well.

"John Crawley was fantastic and we thought we could win if we bowled well and took our chances, but it didn't turn out that way.

"Any team that bats like they did deserves to win."