{"id":626499,"date":"2026-06-07T20:35:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626499\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:35:15","slug":"kent-bowlers-set-up-surprise-win-over-glamorgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626499\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent bowlers set up surprise win over Glamorgan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kent&#8217;s bowlers made the most of winning the toss as they restricted Glamorgan to 30-1 in the powerplay, with Young trapping Daisy Jeanes lbw for 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parfitt struck two fours and a six, but when she drove rival captain Belt to mid-wicket in the 10th over, the batting fell apart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With Kent bowling to their field, the boundaries dried up completely as no-one found the ropes after the two openers, and only Eve Jackson reached double figures as wickets fell regularly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was no run-rate pressure on the Kent reply with Streets and Gordon posting 33 in the power-play, although Nicole Reid then bowled her four overs for just eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The opening pair had virtually ensured the Kent win before Streets played on to Cobb, who had Gordon caught at mid-on in her next over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Rachel King (12 not out) and Maddie Blinkhorn-Jones (20 not out) made sure there were no further scares, and with rain driving in during the final minutes of the game, Blinkhorn-Jones belted Jackson over mid-on to seal an emphatic victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent&#8217;s bowlers made the most of winning the toss as they restricted Glamorgan to 30-1 in the powerplay,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-626499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}