Glamorgan held their nerve to beat Somerset by 15 points to win the Metro Bank One-Day Cup final at Trent Bridge.
The teams, soundly beaten on Sunday, returned to Nottingham to play 20 overs, with the Welsh team defending 186 for 7 after losing the toss following Sam Northeast’s unbeaten 63.
In the final stages of their treble bid, Somerset were well behind on 89 for 4 in the 13th and even late heroics from Archie Vaughan and skipper Sean Dickson could not prevent Glamorgan lifting the trophy for the second time in four years.
Vaughan made 32 off 18 balls, Dickson contributed 44 off 20 balls and the pair added 66 from just five overs but Somerset, who lost the Vitality Blast final and were knocked out of the Vitality County Championship race, were again Left empty handed. .
Northeast anchored the Glamorgan innings, backed by Billy Root’s 39 off 28 balls. Both hit two sixes in the crucial fifth-wicket stand of 78, with Timm van der Gugten backing them up by hitting 26 off just 9 deliveries off bookend opener Will Smale’s 28 balls. From 14.
Dickson produced a fine cameo for Somerset after making 45 off Andy Umeed’s 36, but after off-spinner Ben Kellaway and seamer Andy Gorvin took two wickets each, Jamie McIlroy and Dan Douthwaite had two overs at the death to finish the job. Showed courage with a great over. .
