Glamorgan Cricket leave Trent Bridge as 2024 Metro Bank One Day Cup Champions!
In a match reduced in advance to 20-overs a side with heavy rain forecast, Glamorgan’s 186 for seven proved too strong for Somerset to chase. The Welsh county, who beat Durham to win the 50-over competition in 2021 came out on top by 15 runs, restricting Somerset to 171 for six.
Sam Northeast anchored the Glamorgan innings with an unbeaten 63, backed up by Billy Root’s 39 off 27 balls, both hitting two sixes in a crucial fifth-wicket stand.
Timm van der Gugten backed them up with 26 off just nine balls to bookend Will Smale’s 28 from 14 at the top of the innings.
Somerset skipper Sean Dickson hammered 44 from 20 balls after Andy Umeed’s 45 from 36 for Somerset, but after off-spinner Ben Kellaway and seamer Andy Gorvin had taken two wickets each, Glamorgan’s Jamie McIlroy and Dan Douthwaite held their nerve with two fine overs at the death to finish the job.
A fine way to thank the Glamorgan supporters from all over Wales who had stayed in Nottingham overnight to support their team on the reserve day.
Somerset won the toss and opted to bowl as the Trent Bridge floodlights illuminated the misty gloom hanging over the ground.
Ogborne took wickets with his third and fourth deliveries, bowling skipper Kiran Carlson before Tom Bevan was caught at short fine leg. But Glamorgan still put up 39 runs in the first four-over powerplay thanks to Smale’s aggressive play.
Smale raced to 28 from his first 13 balls, living dangerously against Josh Davey with three boundaries over third but striking Ogborne cleanly over mid-on and for six over square leg. He was eventually caught by Dickson at mid-off.
After Colin Ingram picked out wide long-on off George Thomas for 11, Glamorgan were 71 for four from 10.
Root provided new energy clearing the rope three times, with Northeast following suit with two of his own, one from a free hit, as Kasey Aldridge’s final over went for a damaging 29. They added 78 in 49 balls before Root was caught behind off Thomas.
The next two wickets came quickly when Dan Douthwaite was run out before Kellaway sliced to short third, but van der Gugten’s swashbuckling cameo, encompassing four fours and a six off Davey hammered over long-off raised the total.
In reply, Somerset had Thomas run out in the third over of the powerplay and were some way off the pace at 63 for two from 10 after Lewis Goldsworthy, who had hit a century in the semi-final, picked out Kellaway.
Umeed who was beginning to land some blows fell to a superb catch by Smale standing up to Andy Gorvin then James Rew was caught off a top-edged sweep as Kellaway landed his second blow, leaving Somerset 89 for four in the 13th and Glamorgan firm favourites.
A blistering partnership of 66 in just five overs between Dickson and Archie Vaughan dragged Somerset right back into contention, Vaughan having survived Kellaway’s lbw shout on umpire’s call before he had scored.
But after hammering 44 from 20 balls, Dickson skewed Gorvin to short third, costing them critical momentum with 32 needed from 15 balls.
It came down to Somerset needing 29 from the last two, a task that ultimately proved too much, Douthwaite picking up a wicket when Green heaved in the air to square leg.