Mark Ramprakash was restricted to a classy bit part in his first NatWest Pro40 game of the season as Surrey Brown Caps ended a run of three successive defeats with an eight-wicket victory over Glamorgan Dragons at the Brit Oval.

Ramprakash, widely touted for an England recall for next week's final Ashes Test on the same ground, was threatening to break loose when he fell for a run-a-ball 24.

Despite the setback Surrey went on to reach their Duckworth-Lewis adjusted target of 153 off 24 overs with 20 balls to spare.

The floodlit Division Two game was twice interrupted by breaks for heavy rain.

Glamorgan's innings finished after 37 overs with a below-par total of 192 for five, and Surrey's original target of 174 off 28 overs was reassessed again when rain drove the players off after six overs.

By then, Surrey were already 59 without loss as their openers, Michael Brown and Stewart Walters, took 19 off Garnett Kruger's first over.

A stand of 69 in eight overs ended when Brown was leg before for 35, aiming a reverse sweep at off-spinner Robert Croft.

Ramprakash had the luxury of being able to ease himself in with six singles off 12 balls before launching slow left-armer Dean Cosker over extra cover for his first boundary.

In Cosker's next over Ramprakash advanced to hit him for a straight six, followed up with a boundary swept fine then perished to a sharp return catch.

Walters, who has hit a rich vein of form since taking over the Surrey captaincy last month, saw his side home with an unbeaten 67 off 58 balls.

Will Bragg was the main aggressor for Glamorgan in an opening stand of 58 in 12 overs with Gareth Rees. Bragg had made 36 off 43 balls when he dragged on trying to force Stuart Meaker through the off side.

Six runs later Rees's attempt to break the shackles ended ingloriously as a leading edge to medium-pacer Tim Linley looped to Meaker at cover.

Jim Allenby, who earlier this week left Leicestershire to join Glamorgan on loan after agreeing a three-year contract from the start of next season, contributed 28 on debut for his new county.

Jamie Dalrymple and Mark Wallace gave the Glamorgan innings fresh momentum in a fifth-wicket stand of 53 off 10 overs, Wallace top-scoring with an unbeaten 42 off 43 balls.

Surrey confirmed before the start of the game that batsmen Chris Murtagh and James Benning, former England seamer Jimmy Ormond and off-spinner Murtaza Hussain would be leaving at the end of the season.