PROMOTION hopefuls Wor-cestershire set Glamorgan a massive 503 to win in their Liverpool Victoria County Championship Division Two clash at Colwyn Bay.

That was after they bowled Glamorgan out for 340 in their first innings, an overall lead of 120, and then made 382-5 declared second time around.

By the end of day three when bad light stopped play Glam-organ had reached eight without loss after four balls from Zaheer Khan.

All Worcestershire's top or-der cashed in to give them a great opportunity to register their fifth win in six outings and boost their promotion prospects.

Vikram Solanki's side were given a great platform by openers Phil Jaques and Steve Moore who put on 168 for the first wicket in 41 overs, three shy of their season's best first-wicket stand.

Jaques and Moore pushed on to take complete control after lunch, which they had reached at 75-0.

After missing out in the first innings, Australian run-machine Jaques looked al-most certain to score his fourth century of the championship campaign.

But having smashed a window of the Colwyn Bay Cricket Club pavilion with a six off Robert Croft, he fell eight runs short of three figures when he was caught at deep backward square to give the Glamorgan captain some revenge.

Three overs later Moore also perished, cutting a James Franklin long hop straight to backward square leg.

Worcestershire's progress was slowed briefly when Vik-ram Solanki was run out for the second time in the match in bizarre fashion.

Medium-pacer Mark Cos-grove fielded the ball off his own bowling and, out of the back of his hand, threw down the stumps with Solanki out of his crease.

But Ben Smith and Steven Davies ensured there were not further scares as they added 135 for the fourth wicket in 22 overs.

Solanki's very conservative declaration ensured Worces-tershire are unlikely to lose considering the highest score Glamorgan have ever chased successfully is 367 against Essex five years ago.

Earlier, Glamorgan's first innings lasted only another 3.3 overs with the last pair, David Harrison and Kyle Tudge, adding 11 runs to the overnight total of 329-9.

Glamorgan missed a fourth batting point by 10 runs when Harrison got a leading edge off Nadeem Malik and was caught at mid-off by Solanki.

That left Malik, Zaheer Khan and Gareth Batty with three wickets each.