As the third weekend of Premier League club cricket commenced in Wales, the weather in the Land of Valleys turned bright and sunny, giving the cricketers perfect conditions to represent their clubs. It was another successful outing for Glamorgan's men and women cricketers, as some big wins and thrilling matches made for a perfect weekend of cricket, followed by the Club's big win at Sophia Gardens over Northants.
Most of the women's players made themselves available for Sunday's South Wales Premier Women's Cricket League, despite playing at Brecon only a day before in the Vitality T20 Women's County Cup. Lydia Clements continued to impress for her home club Radyr CC, scoring a run-a-ball half-century, and also picking up a wicket in her 8-over spell. Charlotte Scarborough scored 70 runs off 72 balls for Newport CC, while her club and Glamorgan teammate Rose Evans scored 67 off 77. Isla Thomson scored 88 runs off just 66 balls for the Panthers CC, also bowling an economical spell with the ball, conceding only 19 runs in her 5 overs. Megan Janczewski also got a half-century, scoring 59 off just 45 balls batting for the Panthers CC. Five Glamorgan batters crossed the half-century mark playing for their clubs this weekend.
In the men's league, Tom Bevan scored an outstanding century batting for Ammanford CC, as the south-west Walian club registered a victory against Usk CC, for whom Billy Root scored 33 runs chasing a stiff target of 315. Alex Horton got his first half-century of the club cricket season, scoring a run-a-ball 72 for Ynystawe CC. Henry Hurle too got a high score batting for Cardiff CC, scoring 65 off 45 balls.
There were some high scores in the North Wales Premier League as well, where some Wales national county players and age-group players were in the runs on a high-scoring weekend across the country. Here are the summary of scores from the three leagues:
North Wales Men’s Premier Cricket League:
Brymbo CC 279/8 (C Taylor 117, J Barnard 71; E Colclough 3/22) beat Northop CC 278/6 (E Colclough 107, J Evans 34, B Ryan-Beswick 31, M Mullarkey 30*) by 2 wickets.
Denbigh CC 74/0 (S Lewis 33*, G Lyall 31*) beat Bethesda CC 73 (A Clarke 3/14) by 10 wickets.
Gwersyllt Park CC 94/2 (R Collier 41, J James 38*) beat Conwy CC 93 (J Billington 3/25) by 8 wickets.
Mochdre CC 270/7 (J Chaplin 70, J French 45, A Davies 33, W Evans 30) beat Bangor CC 247/9 (N Scott 62, J Grimshaw 50; O Davies 3/43) by 23 runs.
St Asaph CC 176 (K Williams 37, O Sidney 33; A Wood 3/18) beat Menai Bridge CC 123 by 53 runs.
South Wales Women’s Cricket League – Premier Division
Pembroke CC 115/4 (E Wilson 35) beat Cardiff CC 112 (S Khurana 30; R Morgan 3/15, M Arthur 3/26) by 6 wickets.
Radyr CC 268/7 (S Pyne 83, L Clements 51, C Griffiths 36; I Payne 3/26) beat Newport CC 208/7 (C Scarborough 70, R Evans 67; A Harris 3/19) by 60 runs.
The Panthers CC 279/4 (I Thomson 88, I Thorndike 65*, M Janczewski 59, E Cox 41) beat Briton Ferry Steel CC 194/5 (S Hughes 53, S Hagget 42) by 85 runs.