Somerset rout Glamorgan by seven wickets: Friends Life T20 – Match Recap
Somerset thumped Glamorgan by seven wickets and 26 balls remaining in a match of the Friends Life Twenty20, at the County Ground, Taunton in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, on Sunday, June 26, 2011.
The visitors posted a decent target of 167 runs in their allotted 20 overs and looked in a very good position, but they failed to defend the target in the end.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marcus-Trescothick-c1898, has been in sensational form in this year’s county games and continued to impress, as he led the chase for his team. He top scored the match with 58 runs, guiding his team to victory in just 15.4 overs.
Toss was won by Glamorgan’s captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gordon-Muchall-c1499 assistance for the bowlers in the pitch, which made life easy for the batsmen. However, the visitors would have liked to score more than 180 on such a flat batting
pitch.
The start to the Glamorgan’s innings was not an ideal one, as they lost a couple of wickets early. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Allenby-c65438, who only managed two runs in his
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Short-c90107 stay at the crease.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gareth-Henry-John-Rees-c58403. The pair collected 50 runs for the third wicket partnership and put the innings back on track.
Petersen looked the more threatening of the two players, as he batted aggressively. He would have liked to bat until the end, but failed to do so and was sent back to the pavilion after adding 35 runs to the total from 16 deliveries. His quick-fire knock
included five fours and a massive six.
Wicketkeeper batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mark-Alexander-Wallace-c74495, was unable to make an impression and was dismissed after scoring just one run. He was followed by Rees, who scored 22 runs off the same number of balls.
The visitors were in a spot of bother with five down for 84 runs on the board, but they bounced back in the game with a solid partnership between Chris Cooke and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Grant-Wagg-c60586. They put together 36 runs for the sixth wicket partnership before the latter was
dismissed for 19.
Cooke top scored the innings with 47 runs from 40 balls, guiding his side to a respectable total in the end.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Max-Thomas-Charles-Waller-c75407 bowled really well for Somerset, picking up a couple of wickets for 20 runs in four overs.
In reply, Somerset went off to a flying start. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Peter-David-Trego-c81582 got out after scoring 20 runs off 15 balls, but Trescothick smashed the bowlers to all parts of the park. He ended up with 58 runs from 28 balls, clobbering nine fours and two massive sixes.
Craig Meschede was also in devastating form, as he scored 53 runs off 28 deliveries with the help of three fours and four thunderous sixes.
The hosts achieved the target in 15.4 overs, losing just three wickets. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Simon-Philip-Jones-c90437 was the pick of the bowlers for Glamorgan, taking one wicket in the match.
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