T20 Blast: Glamorgan beat Somerset by a last-ball boundary

Glamorgan recorded a double over holders Somerset in the Vitality Blast with a thrilling last-ball four-wicket victory at Taunton’s Cooper Associates ground.

Batting after losing the toss, the hosts posted 202-6, with captain Lewis Gregory top-scoring with 54 off 28 balls, with Tom Abel (41) making 90 for the fifth wicket. Dan Douthwaite was the most successful Glamorgan bowler with 2-35 from four overs.

In reply, the Welsh county managed to post 203 for 6 in 20 overs, with Sean Dickson 63 off 36 deliveries and Asa Tribe 48 before Jimmy Neesham hit the winning four off the final delivery.

Somerset openers Tom Banton and Josh Thomas put on a half-century opening partnership in five overs, with Banton, who hit five fours and two sixes in his 39, caught at deep square by former team-mate Ned Leonard.

Leonard gave 50 runs in three overs. But Glamorgan fought back, with Ben Kellaway caught for 18 by Thomas for 60 at the end of the powerplay.

Soon it was 83-4 as Jordan was run out by Kieran Carlson after a bad call by Herman Abel and Thomas Reuke was bowled by Douthwaite for two.

Abel and Gregory turned the tide, the latter hitting a 24-ball half-century with four sixes, and the pair took 24 runs in the 15th over, which was dispatched by Leonard.

Abel faced 28 balls when he was caught at deep square by Douthwaite. Gregory quickly followed, running out to wicketkeeper Will Smale to try a tricky single, but Daniel Sams ensured Somerset would pass 200 with 24 off 12 balls.

Carlson hit Craig Overton for a six in the first over of Glamorgan’s reply and another maximum in the second over, bowled by Josh Shaw.

Their innings was then interrupted when the floodlights failed. The umpires consulted both captains and a light went off and play resumed.

Carlson, on 29, was dropped by Thomas Reu at mid-wicket off the first ball of Sams’ innings, but was run out on the next ball, towards long-off. Kellaway moved quickly to Jack Ball and Smale fell for 22, trying to pull a ball from Overton lbw, who finished the powerplay with a wicket maiden to leave Glamorgan 55-3.

Dickson dropped Gregory to third-man for 14 runs. It looked to prove a costly miss as the former Somerset man brought up his 33-ball fifty with another six from Sams before first Shaw and then Lewis Goldsworthy cleared the ropes.

Sams responded with a slower ball that Dickson offered a high return catch to make it 144-4 after 15 overs. Tribe were well on their way to 26 and he accelerated the ball for two fours and a six before Shaw was caught at short fine leg on a full toss.

Bold as Glamorgan needed 16 runs in the last over. Douthwaite hit a six off the second ball, but after the lights went out he was caught at long-on, allowing Neesham to hit the winning boundary down the leg side with the last ball of the contest.