WORCESTERSHIRE required less than an hour to wrap up a comprehensive 238-run victory over Surrey in LV= County Championship Division Two on the final day at New Road.

In fact, they needed just an hour to claim all 10 Surrey wickets as four fell the previous night before Steve Rhodes’ side skittled their visitors out for 130.

Resuming the final day on 66-4, Surrey captain Rory Hamilton-Brown and Steve Davies blitzed their way through the opening five overs, piling on 46 runs in the process.

But, once they both fell in the 30th over to Shakib Al Hasan, who finished with a Worcestershire best of 6-42, the Brit Oval men collapsed.

Matt Mason, who was hit for 19 in the fifth over of the morning, sent Matthew Spriegel’s stumps flying, before removing his former Worcestershire team-mate Gareth Batty.

The ex-vice-captain needlessly got himself embroiled with a Worcestershire supporter after receiving abuse from the crowd when being dismissed.

Batty returned from the dressing room to speak to one of the supporters before being taken back by Surrey coach Ian Salisbury.

However, it is unlikely the supporter or Batty will be censured following the incident.

Mason trapped Stewart Walters lbw for one before Shakib completed his six-wicket haul when he removed Chris Tremlett to hand new captain Daryl Mitchell his first win.

“I have never seen less than an hour’s cricket like that before,” Mitchell said.

“Obviously, Surrey came out with the intent of going pretty hard and playing big shots early. They got nearly 50 runs on the board quickly.

“But, with them playing like that, I felt they were going to give us a chance.

“As soon as we got the first wicket, the others followed quickly.”

Having seen Hamilton-Brown and Davies hit his bowlers to all parts, Mitchell admitted he was ready to make a change to his attack before the wickets started to tumble.

“I was just about to take Mase off,” Mitchell said.

“I thought maybe Gareth Andrew, with a little bit of extra pace, might make them hit one up in the air and it would make it more difficult to play some of the shots they were playing.

“I was always going to leave Shakib on, even though Rory hit him for a couple of sixes. He looked dangerous and was turning the ball.

“I always thought it was only a matter of time before he was going to get a wicket.”

Mitchell could not have asked for a better start to his captaincy at Worcestershire but was surprised just how quickly the first win came.

He added: “I certainly did not think we would have won by 11.55am. I wasn’t worried about what time we won, as long as we did get the win.”