It was a contrasting weekend for Glamorgan Cricket, as the men continued their push for County Championship promotion, while the women lost the Blast League 2 semi-final.

Glamorgan captain Kiran Carlson’s fourth innings score of 89* saw his side home against Kent, further cementing their place in the County Championship Division Two promotion race.

With four matches to go, Carlson’s side sit in second, 17 points ahead of Derbyshire in third. Glamorgan has their bowlers to thank for this result, as their first day rout of Kent to bowl the visitors out for 155 proved decisive.

In a Kookaburra ball round – in which results have been hard to come by – the experienced Timm van der Gugten and James Harris were exemplary, taking 3-27 and 3-35 respectively.

In reply, Colin Ingram and Ben Kellaway put on 172 for the fifth wicket and, although but fell shirt of three figures, Glamorgan’s lead of over 150 was too much for Kent to overcome.

The wickets were shared around in Kent’s second innings, with Carlson the pick, taking 3-24 from 5 overs to remove the lower order and see his side chase 189 to win.

Starting day four at 25-2 meant the first hour was particularly nervy, and at 40-3 the result was in the balance. A steady 68-run partnership between Carlson and Root settled things down before Ingram’s quick 27 put the result beyond doubt.

The innings of the match, though, was undoubtedly Carlson’s 89*, expertly steering his side home for a 21-point win.

Yorkshire put Glamorgan away in Blast semi-final

Glamorgan women were well beaten by eventual runners-up Yorkshire in the second Vitality Blast Women League 2 semi-final, with the Welsh county losing by 7 wickets.

Lauren Parfitt’s side posted a slightly below par score of 124-9 from their 20 overs, despite scores of 41 and 29 from Bethan Ellis and Parfitt respectively.

England batter Lauren Winfield-Hill and fellow opener Georgie Boyce leading the way for Yorkshire who, despite Poppy Tulloch’s two wickets briefly giving Glammy a sniff.

Yorkshire went on to lose the final to Middlesex by 10 wickets.

“I’m really proud of the way the girls carried themselves, against a professional team it was never going to be easy for us but the girls put on an amazing show,” said Glamorgan head coach Rachel Priest.

“We just fell away a bit with the bat and we need to keep working on options to score boundaries throughout the innings.”

Glamorgan won five of seven completed games to finish second in the South group, whereas Yorkshire stormed through the northern section unbeaten in eight.

“Extremely positive, the hard work in the winter has shown on the field and we’ll look to keep building on that,” Priest added.

“If we can recruit some players and keep working with the players we’ve got, we’ll look to be where Yorkshire are now.

“It’s really exciting to have cricket as your job and lots of our girls are working hard towards that opportunity.”

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