Glamorgan recorded a Vitality Blast double over holders Somerset with an exhilarating four-wicket win due to a boundary off the final ball on the Cooper Associates Floor, Taunton.
The hosts posted 202-6 after shedding the toss, skipper Lewis Gregory top-scoring with 54 off 28 balls, sharing a fifth-wicket stand of 90 with Tom Abell (41). Dan Douthwaite was essentially the most profitable Glamorgan bowler with 2-35 from 4 overs.
In reply, the Welsh county managed 203 for six off 20 overs, Sean Dickson hitting 63 from 36 deliveries and Asa Tribe contributing 48 earlier than Jimmy Neesham hit the profitable 4 off the ultimate supply shortly after a 3rd delay due to floodlight issues within the final over.
Somerset openers Tom Banton and Josh Thomas put collectively a half-century opening stand in below 5 overs earlier than Banton, who had smacked 5 fours and two sixes in his 39, was caught at deep sq. off former team-mate Ned Leonard.
Leonard went on to concede 50 from three overs. However Glamorgan fought again, Thomas caught for 18 off Ben Kellaway with the full on 60 on the finish of the powerplay.
Quickly it was 83-4 as Jordan Hermann was run out by Kiran Carlson responding to a poor name by Abell and Thomas Rew was bowled by Douthwaite for 2.
Abell and Gregory turned the tide, the latter putting 4 sixes in reaching a 24-ball half-century and the pair taking 24 off the fifteenth over, despatched down by Leonard.
Abell had confronted 28 balls when caught at deep sq. off Douthwaite. Gregory shortly adopted, run out by wicketkeeper Will Smale making an attempt a cheeky single, however Daniel Sams ensured Somerset would move 200 with 24 off 12 balls.
Carlson hit Craig Overton for six within the first over of Glamorgan’s reply and adopted up with one other most within the second, bowled by Josh Shaw.
Their innings was then interrupted when the floodlights failed. The umpires consulted each captains and play resumed with one mild nonetheless off.
Carlson, on 29, was dropped by Thomas Rew at mid-wicket off Sams’ first ball of the innings, however perished to the subsequent, skying to long-off. Kellaway shortly departed to Jake Ball and Smale fell for 22, lbw attempting to drag a ball from Overton, who ended the powerplay with a wicket maiden to depart Glamorgan 55-3.
Dickson was dropped on 14 by Ball at third-man off Gregory. It regarded like proving an costly miss as the previous Somerset man cleared the ropes off first Shaw after which Lewis Goldsworthy earlier than one other six off Sams introduced up a 33-ball fifty.
Sams responded with a slower ball that noticed Dickson supply a excessive return catch to make it 144-4 after 15 overs. Tribe was going nicely on 26 and he accelerated by taking two fours and a six off Ball earlier than being caught at brief high-quality leg off a Shaw full toss.
Glamorgan wanted 16 off the final over, bowled by Ball. Douthwaite hit the second ball for six, however after the lights went out once more he was caught at long-on, giving Neesham the prospect to hit the profitable boundary by means of the leg aspect with the final ball of the competition.
