An unbeaten century from captain Lauren Parfitt led Glamorgan Women to a six-wicket win over Kent in the One Day Cup.<\/p>\n
The result means that Glamorgan, with six wins from seven group games, are almost sure of a semi-final place.<\/p>\n
Parfitt hit 111 not out off 125 balls as Glamorgan chased down a target of 228 with 8.3 overs to spare at Beckenham.<\/p>\n
Kent recovered from 11-3 to post a respectable total of 227-7, Elsa Barnfather top-scoring with 65.<\/p>\n
The hosts made a poor start as loanee seamer Ellie Anderson (1-35) and Gemma Porter (2-60) took early wickets.<\/p>\n
But Barnfather shared half-century stands with Amy Gordon and Coco Streets, who both made 32 before falling to Poppy Walker, while Barnfather was stumped off the economical Katy Cobb.<\/p>\n
Sophie Singer (35) and Laura Bailey (27 not out) gave Kent something to defend, but they could not put Glamorgan under much pressure.<\/p>\n
Parfitt and Bethan Gammon, who hit a quickfire 35 off 38 balls, added 78 for the second wicket in Glamorgan’s best partnership, and Parfitt finished with 15 fours and three sixes.<\/p>\n
Glamorgan, who were beaten semi-finalists in their T20 tournament, have group matches remaining away to Worcestershire and home to Northamptonshire Steelbacks.<\/p>\n
They will aim for a top-two finish to earn a home semi final on Saturday 6 September as they gear up to turn professional in 2027.<\/p>\n
Kent, who have just one win from seven, travel to Gloucestershire and host Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unbeaten century from captain Lauren Parfitt led Glamorgan Women to a six-wicket win over Kent in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-72282","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\/72282","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=72282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}