Trott helps Warwickshire canter home

Jonathan Trott's steadfast 55 enabled Warwickshire to comfortably chase Glamorgan's modest 129 at Cardiff

Jonathan Trott scored a half-century to guide Warwickshire towards a Twenty20 Cup victory for the second day running.

The opener followed up his unbeaten 53 against Worcestershire yesterday with 54 in the six-wicket victory over Glamorgan at the SWALEC Stadium.

After putting Glamorgan into bat, Warwickshire restricted the home side to 129 for eight on a slow Cardiff pitch.

And the visitors made relatively light work of their reply with Trott – whose 50-ball innings contained three fours and a six – sharing in a 71-run partnership with Ian Bell (42) for the third wicket in 11 overs.

In the end Warwickshire won with five balls to spare to condemn Glamorgan to their third Twenty20 defeat in four games.

For Glamorgan, skipper Jamie Dalrymple was the only batsman to offer any resistance on the benign surface.

The former Middlesex all-rounder reached 50, out of 106 for four, from 51 balls with four fours and a six.

But in trying to push the score along Dalrymple holed out to long-on off Steffan Piolet without adding to this.

Dalrymple had put on 27 for the first wicket with Mark Cosgrove when the Australian left-hander was caught at mid-off off the impressive Neil Carter, who finished with 3-16 from four overs.

Glamorgan’s wickets fell at regular intervals after that. Tom Maynard was bowled by slow left-armer Ant Botha after stepping back to leg, Ben Wright perished leg before to a full ball from Jeetan Patel and Mark Wallace was brilliantly caught by Ian Westwood’s left-handed, diving catch at midwicket.

Michael Powell reached 12 before he was caught off a leading edge and Carter struck with successive balls to bowl both Ryan Watkins and James Harris.

The Warwickshire innings was given some early impetus when Carter took three fours off the opening over from Garnett Kruger.

And, though Kruger got his revenge by bowling Carter and Jim Troughton in consecutive overs, Trott and Bell more than steadied the Warwickshire ship.

Bell was caught behind off Dalrymple’s first ball and Trott was run out after a neat bit of fielding from Powell, but Tim Ambrose and Westwood saw their side home in the last over.