Glamorgan v Somerset
Gloucestershire Gladiators made it back-to-back Twenty20 Cup wins on successive nights with a pulsating three-run victory over Warwickshire Bears .
Mark Hardinges' maiden half-century in the competition underpinned the Gladiators' total of 188 for six at Edgbaston.
The Bears then shrugged off the loss of early wickets to reach the last over needing 14.
But Tony Frost's onslaught of 33 from 13 balls was in vain as they fell just short on 185 for eight.
Key Gloucestershire batsmen Craig Spearman and Alex Gidman were ruled out by ankle and thigh injuries respectively and those absentees looked costly for the Gladiators when, after choosing to bat, they lost both openers in the first two overs.
But Hardinges underpinned a recovery with an intelligent 51 from 35 balls with two sixes and three fours.
He found three useful partners, adding 41 in 21 balls with Chris Taylor, 48 in 35 with Matt Windows and 33 in 15 with David Brown.
Taylor lashed 14 from three successive balls by James Anyon, who finished with the worst figures by a Warwickshire bowler in Twenty20 - his four overs went for 60 runs and he took one wicket.
But the Bears stuck at it well and Steve Adshead's unbeaten 22 took up 18 balls in the closing overs.
The Bears' reply began in helter-skelter fashion. At the end of the first over, from Carl Greenidge, the score was 13 for two after Neil Carter played on and Navdeep Poonia edged to slip.
Before the end of the fifth over they were joined in the pavilion by Mark Wagh, who mis-hooked to square-leg, and Jim Troughton, pinned lbw by a Greenidge yorker.
Jonathan Trott and Michael Powell stopped the rot briefly before Trott, with 28 from 27 balls, was brilliantly caught and bowled by spinner Martyn Ball.
Powell raced to 36 from 22 balls but then clipped Hardinges straight to mid-wicket before skipper Heath Streak kept his side in the hunt with a ferocious 30 from 22 balls.
With 36 needed from two overs, Frost and Ian Westwood lashed 22 off the first, from Ian Harvey, leaving Gladiators skipper Jon Lewis to bowl the last for less than 14. Frost carved a six over extra cover but four off the last ball proved too much for Westwood who edged only a single to third man.
Twenty20 Cup, 2006, Midlands/West/Wales Division
Glamorgan v Somerset
Sophia Gardens, Cardiff (day/night)
30 June 2006 (20-over match)
Result: Glamorgan won by 1 wickets
Points: Glamorgan 2, Somerset 0
Toss: Glamorgan
Umpires: JH Evans and PJ Hartley
Somerset innings (20 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
JL Langer not out 76 77 50 7 0
MJ Wood c McCullum b Franklin 23 21 22 3 0
*CL White st Wallace b Cosker 52 33 32 4 3
KA Parsons st Wallace b Croft 2 3 6 0 0
JC Hildreth not out 21 15 11 1 1
Extras (lb 2, w 5, nb 4) 11
Total (3 wickets, 20 overs) 185
DNB: WJ Durston, AV Suppiah, GM Andrew, +CM Gazzard, RL Johnson,
CM Willoughby.
FoW: 1-46 (Wood), 2-134 (White), 3-138 (Parsons).
Bowling O M R W
Davies 4 0 32 0 (1w)
Franklin 4 0 31 1
Wharf 4 0 45 0 (1nb, 1w)
Cosker 3 0 29 1 (1w)
Croft 4 0 32 1 (1w)
Grant 1 0 14 0
Glamorgan innings (target: 186 runs from 20 overs) R M B 4 6
RN Grant b Suppiah 51 27 26 9 1
MJ Powell c Gazzard b Willoughby 19 13 13 0 2
BB McCullum c Suppiah b Parsons 20 16 10 3 0
DL Hemp c Andrew b Durston 8 13 9 0 0
N Peng c Parsons b Suppiah 2 3 4 0 0
JEC Franklin b Andrew 9 14 10 0 0
+MA Wallace c sub b Johnson 35 30 24 4 0
AG Wharf c White b Durston 8 3 4 0 1
*RDB Croft run out 21 22 16 0 1
AP Davies not out 3 9 3 0 0
DA Cosker not out 3 3 2 0 0
Extras (lb 1, nb 6) 7
Total (9 wickets, 20 overs) 186
FoW: 1-41 (Powell), 2-91 (Grant), 3-99 (McCullum), 4-102 (Peng),
5-110 (Hemp), 6-127 (Franklin), 7-136 (Wharf),
8-178 (Wallace), 9-182 (Croft).
Bowling O M R W
Willoughby 4 0 47 1
Johnson 4 0 53 1 (1nb)
Parsons 2.2 0 17 1
Suppiah 3 0 14 2
Durston 2.4 0 25 2
Andrew 4 0 29 1
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