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a day ago
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Glamorgan finish second as Kent earn dramatic win
Women's Vitality Blast, CardiffGlamorgan 132-5 (20.0): Gammon 69*, L Parfitt 22Kent 133-4 (20.0): Streets 41*, Barnfather 29, Callaghan 21Kent Women won by 6 wicketsMatch scorecard Glamorgan missed out on top spot in the Vitality Blast Women League 2 South Group as they were pipped in a dramatic finish against visitors won only their second game of the campaign with Grace Poole striking the winning runs off the last ball at Sophia Gardens, hosts set a target of 132-5 with Bethan Gammon's 69 not out the highlight of their the visitors also provided their own heroics as Coco Streets hit 41 not out and Poole stepped up to earn defeat means Middlesex have won the division, leaving the Welsh county to face runaway North Group winners Yorkshire in the tier-two finals at Northamptonshire's County Ground on Saturday, 26 July.
BBC News
6 days ago
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Glamorgan Women cruise to Finals Day spot
Women's Vitality Blast, CardiffGloucestershire 114-5 (20): Willis 28; Shearn 2-27Glamorgan 117-1 (13.4): Bethan Ellis 67*, Gammon 40*Glamorgan Women won by 9 wicketsMatch scorecard Glamorgan Women sealed a League Two Finals Day place with a match to spare, as they cruised to a nine-wicket victory over Ellis (67*) and Bethan Gammon (40*) made short work of a target of 115 in the 14th over, taking Glamorgan to their fifth win in six completed was the first time Glamorgan Women had played a home double-header with the men's Willis top-scored with 28 in Gloucestershire's 114-5, while Anna-Mae Shearn was the most successful bowler with captain Melissa Story chose to bat and Willis got them off to a decent start, reaching 36-1 in the Shearn bowled her in the eighth over and Gloucestershire could not accelerate on a pitch with large wide boundaries in place for the men's game, with Georgia Cant's 16 not out the best of a series of Gemma Porter was as usual the most economical home bowler, with 1-16 in the powerplay and death Lauren Parfitt fell to Charlie Phillips (1-17) in the first over of the Glamorgan reply, but Ellis and Gammon rode their luck and went hard in the powerplay with 20 coming off the sixth loanee Ellis, 25, had most of the strike, bringing up her 50 off 42 balls, but Gammon was equally aggressive as their century stand took just 11 belted her ninth four over mid-on to end the contest, while Gammon's runs came off just 26 deliveries to give her an impressive qualify alongside Middlesex from the South Group for Finals Day at Northampton on Saturday, 26 July.
