Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field, making a superb start when captain Lauren Parfitt was dismissed for just eight after being caught by Amelie Munday off Charlie Phillips.<\/p>\n
A comical run out soon followed as Daisy Jeanes was dismissed but some impressive batting by Sturge and Gammon put Glamorgan in control.<\/p>\n
They added 79 runs until Phillips finally made the breakthrough that Gloucestershire desperately needed, Sturge caught at deep point to leave the hosts 105-3.<\/p>\n
The wickets then began to tumble with captain Liv Daniels claiming the pick of the bunch when catching Scottish international Megan McColl off her own bowling.<\/p>\n
Daisy Mullan was next to fall as Phillips claimed her sixth wicket of the day and the hard-hitting Gammon fell for 69 in the final over as Glamorgan finished with 154-6.<\/p>\n
Chasing a target of 155, Gloucestershire got off to the worst possible start. <\/p>\n
Munday, who was the hero of the semi-final with 71, was bowled for a first-ball duck by Gemma Porter.<\/p>\n
Porter soon got her second victim when Reddy hit one high to mid-wicket as Gloucestershire managed just 29 in the powerplay.<\/p>\n
Glamorgan’s bowlers kept applying pressure until Patel produced an astonishing display to swing momentum in the favour of the visitors.<\/p>\n
A disastrous over increased the tension when Sara Phillips was taken off after bowling a second high no-ball. Her replacement Megan McColl made the same mistake, with 19 runs coming off the over to increase the pressure on Glamorgan.<\/p>\n
Eight boundaries and dropped catches from the home fielders ensured a dramatic finish at Sophia Gardens, before three quick wickets put Glamorgan on the brink.<\/p>\n
Gloucestershire were bowled out for 122 when Patel skied a shot that was caught by Phillips, as Glamorgan won their first piece of silverware before becoming a professional outfit next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field, making a superb start when captain Lauren Parfitt was dismissed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-688160","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\/688160","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=688160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}