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Glamorgan’s chances of reaching the Friends Life t20 quarter-finals disappeared as Gloucestershire trounced them by nine wickets in the final Midlands, Wales and West Group match at Cardiff.
Michael Klinger: Led Gloucestershire home
Chasing 142 to win, captain Michael Klinger helped Gloucestershire achieve the double over Glamorgan with 86 from 59 balls with 11 fours and a six, as Gloucestershire won with 22 balls to spare.
Glamorgan needed to win to qualify for the last eight but it was a disappointing end to their T20 campaign after they had won their opening four games.
Glamorgan, who included former England bowler Simon Jones, were put into bat and could only make 141 for five from their 20 overs despite Jim Allenby batting through the innings, scoring 85 from 58 balls with four sixes and six fours.
His dominance was highlighted with only two other batsmen – Marcus North (20) and Murray Goodwin (11) – getting into double figures.
And out of 13 boundaries in the innings Allenby struck 10 of them with Glamorgan struggling to dominate a largely inexperience attack.
Openers Allenby and captain North, who was promoted up the order, gave the home side a useful platform scoring 41 from the opening six-over power play.
But runs dried up as North was bowled by the impressive Benny Howell leaving Glamorgan 55 for one in the ninth over.
The big-hitting Chris Cooke failed to make his mark as he holed out to deep mid-wicket for just six and Nathan McCullum, pushed up the order, was out leg before. It saw Glamorgan struggle to 73 for three in the 12th over.
Glamorgan failed to get a boundary from the eighth to the 14th over until Allenby struck his fifth four which saw him reach his 50 from 42 balls. It was Allenby’s third half century in nine T20 matches this season.
Allenby struck a six to bring up the 100 and followed that up with another six off the final ball of the innings.
Gloucestershire through Klinger and Chris Dent made a positive start reaching 18 for nought after the first two overs from Michael Hogan and Allenby.
Klinger and Dent each struck a boundary off Wagg as Gloucestershire reached 32 after four overs.
Glamorgan gambled on slow left armer Dean Cosker bowling the final over of the power play but 12 runs came from it as Gloucestershire reached 50 for nought after six overs.
After Gloucestershire had got to 65 for nought after eight overs McCullum came into the attack to have Dent caught at long off.
By the halfway stage Gloucestershire reached 79 for one with 15 coming off the 10th over from Simon Jones.
Klinger went to a 37-ball half-century as Gloucestershire cruised to victory in the 17th over.
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