Trott sees Bears to Cardiff win

TWENTY20 CUP, MID/WEST/WALES DIVISION, The Swalec Stadiun:
Warwickshire 133-4 beat Glamorgan 129-8 by six wickets. Warks 2pts.

Glamorgan v Warwickshire scorecard

Jonathan Trott has now hit 166 runs in four innings in this year's Twenty20

Jonathan Trott hit his second straight fifty as Warwickshire beat Glamorgan in Cardiff to truly get their 2009 Twenty20 Cup campaign up and running.

The Bears urgently needed another victory to build on Friday night's local derby win over Worcestershire.

And they got it too, Trott hitting 55 and Ian Bell 42 as they made 129-3 to win with five balls to spare.

Skipper Jamie Dalrymple (50) top scored for the home side at Sophia Gardens with 50 out of Glamorgan's 129-8.

Neil Carter was the pick of the Bears attack, taking 3-16. But it was Trott's evening as he followed up his unbeaten 53 against Worcestershire by hitting another 55, sharing a crucial 71-run third-wicket stand in 11 overs with out-of-favour England batsman Bell.

After putting Glamorgan in, Dalrymple was the only home batter to offer any real resistance on a slow, benign track, hitting four fours and a six before holing out to long-on.

But the visitors made relatively light work of their reply, largely thanks to Trott, whose 50-ball knock contained three fours and a six.

The Bears were given their customary early impetus by Carter, who took three fours off the opening over from Garnett Kruger.

Kruger got his revenge, in consecutive overs bowling Carter and Jim Troughton, to end his run of three straight half centuries. But Trott and Bell more than steadied the ship.

And, although there were minor alarms when Bell was caught behind off Dalrymple's first ball and Trott was run out by the newly-arrived Tim Ambrose, Glamorgan's third Twenty20 defeat in four games was already pretty much cut and dried.

Warwickshire now host unbeaten Midlands/West Wales Group leaders Northants at Edgbaston on Monday (1730 BST).

Glamorgan go to Taunton to face a Somerset side who suffered their first defeat in this year's competition at the hands of Gloucestershire on Friday night.