Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nWomen’s T20 Blast League Two champions Glamorgan thumped Worcestershire to secure their seventh victory in eight matches in the competition.<\/p>\n
After winning the toss and choosing to field, Glamorgan restricted the Rapids to 103-7, largely limiting them to singles, before overcoming an early wobble to seal an eight-wicket win thanks to a superb 72 off 40 balls from captain Lauren Parfitt.<\/p>\n
Dutch international Sanya Khurana survived an early scare when Katie Cobb spilled a chance off Gemma Porter as Worcestershire batted first, but Glamorgan quickly tightened their grip. <\/p>\n
Khurana and Amy Griffiths managed the only boundaries of the opening five overs as the Rapids struggled to accelerate.<\/p>\n
Porter made the breakthrough in the sixth over, claiming her 15th wicket of the campaign as Khurana departed for 14 from 18 deliveries. <\/p>\n
Madison Windeatt fell victim to Bethan Gammon’s efficient run out in the seventh over and the wickets continued to fall as Gwennan Davies, fresh from an eight-boundary 41 against Sussex, was caught by Cobb for a duck, before spinner Sara Phillips removed Ebony Jade-Tweats for a solitary run.<\/p>\n
Griffiths offered the only significant resistance, making 36 from 41 balls before being stumped by Megan Sturge off Walker.<\/p>\n
Lucy Harris was also run out by Gammon after scoring only two from 13 deliveries, before a late partnership of 32 from 32 balls between captain Clare Boycott and Meg Bishop helped Worcestershire set Glamorgan a target of 104.<\/p>\n
Daisy Jeanes, fresh from her 86 against Middlesex, was stumped by Neath-born Davies and when Sturge followed immediately lbw as Griffiths claimed two wickets in her first over, the hosts were 20-2 after three overs. <\/p>\n
But Parfitt quickly settled any nerves, striking three boundaries, including two in succession, in the fifth over, before launching the first six of the match in the seventh to take Glamorgan past fifty.<\/p>\n
With Gammon providing steady support, Parfitt continued to dominate, reaching her half-century with her eighth boundary before opening the 12th over with three consecutive fours. <\/p>\n
She added an 11th boundary with an inventive lofted shot behind the wicket and victory arrived in the 13th over when Gammon’s single sealed victory for Glamorgan as they gear up for the final of the T20 Women’s Blast on Sunday, 12 July where they will face either Gloucestershire or Kent – the only side to have beaten the Dragons this term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Women’s Vitality Blast League Two, Cardiff Worcestershire 103-6 (20 overs): Griffiths 36, Bishop 20*; Walker 2-19 Glamorgan 104-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-675832","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\/675832","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=675832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}