{"id":666749,"date":"2026-05-12T20:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666749\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:51:17","slug":"cricket-news-2026-australian-bowler-ryan-hadley-scores-unbeaten-fifty-for-glamorgan-in-win-vs-somerset-county-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666749\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket news 2026: Australian bowler Ryan Hadley scores unbeaten fifty for Glamorgan in win vs Somerset, County Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little-known Australian bowler Ryan Hadley has helped Glamorgan to pull off a “miracle” victory over Somerset in the County Championship<\/a> in Cardiff.<\/p>\n

Hadley walked out to the crease as a nightwatchman, with his team was sitting 4-133 and eyeing off a miraculous 283-run target to claim victory.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old, whose personal best first-class score was 15, survived through the innings where he combined with South Africa’s Sean Dickson for a 114-run partnership.<\/p>\n

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Glamorgan’s Ryan Hadley celebrates after reaching 50 runs.\u00a0Twitter<\/p>\n

Hadley was at the crease for five hours and faced 231 deliveries to end on an unbeaten 50, marking the first time in his career that he reached a half-century.<\/p>\n

To make his time as nightwatchman all the more sweeter, the Manly product smashed the winning runs for Glamorgan to claim a two-wicket victory.<\/p>\n

“I was telling the boys I hadn’t been dismissed since coming here, as a joke … so it was inevitable they’re going to get me for the first time,” Hadley said.<\/p>\n

“But I’m still here – it’s a miracle.”<\/p>\n

“It happened in blocks. I was just hoping to chip away at a few to help the boys.<\/p>\n

“I played and missed a few, luckily not good enough to nick it.”<\/p>\n

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Glamorgan’s Ryan Hadley appeals in vain for the wicket of Somerset’s Tom Lammonby.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Hadley also found success with the ball, taking 3-28 to help dismiss Somerset for 157 in the second innings. His teenage teammate Tom Norton snagged a hat-trick on debut.<\/p>\n

Across his 20 first-class appearances to date, the right-arm quick from NSW has taken 55 wickets at an average of 34 and scored a total of 107 runs, which includes his match-winning performance on Tuesday (AEST) with Glamorgan.<\/p>\n

The win lifts Glamorgan to the middle of the division one table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Little-known Australian bowler Ryan Hadley has helped Glamorgan to pull off a “miracle” victory over Somerset in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-666749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}