England’s Steve Finn produced a high-class display of fast bowling at Radlett to maintain Middlesex’s slim hopes of reaching the knock-out stages of the Royal London Cup and end Glamorgan\'s chances of progression in the competition.
The match was in effect an eliminator: whoever lost would have very little chance of progressing to the knock-out stages of the Royal London Cup, with both counties losing ground on the group leaders in earlier rounds of the competition.
Rangy pace bowler Finn took 4-39, including a decisive spell of three-wickets in nine balls that proved pivotal in a tight contest. Set 244 to win after Middlesex were bowled out eight balls shy of their 50 overs with Ingram matching the bowling figures of Finn for a List A career-best, Glamorgan looked well on course for victory at 104-1.
Then England intenrational Finn intervened and though all-rounder Colin Ingram followed up his earlier four-wicket bowling haul with a run-a-ball 50 Glamorgan fell 17 runs short of their target.
"I’m, really gutted," said Ingram “To have a good performance personally is great but i really enjoy it when the team wins and we were in prime position to do so today.”
Glamorgan are now effectively out of the competition and Ingram added: "It is disappointing to be knocked out so early. There are only three competitions and one is already gone. In patches we have played really nicely but found ways to lose. It will hurt, but we will learn from it.”
Head Coach Robert Croft speaking to BBC Wales commented: "We probably conceded 20 more runs than we should have and that's largely down to our fielding, we gave them those extra runs.
"Then from the batting perspective we had a cluster of wickets in the middle, we lost four wickets for five runs which put us back in a mess.
"Fair play to Colin again and Chris Cooke who got us back in the game, but often we analyse batting and bowling as to where the game was won and lost, here it was in our fielding."