TWENTY20 CUP MID/WEST/WALES DIVISION, Bristol:
Glamorgan 151-4 beat Gloucestershire 148-7 by six wickets (Glamorgan 2pts, Glos 0pts)

Maynard struck three sixes and two fours in his unbeaten 49

Ben Wright and Tom Maynard guided Glamorgan to a six-wicket Twenty20 Cup victory over Gloucestershire.

Batting first at Bristol, the hosts closed on 148-7 thanks largely to David Brown's 56 and James Franklin (44).

The visitors slumped to 54-4 in reply, before Wright (55) and Maynard (49) combined for an unbroken fifth-wicket stand of 97 to win on 151-4.

The Dragons got home with nine balls to spare as they leapfrogged their hosts with only their second T20 win of 2009.

Earlier, the home side did well to recover from a score of 27-2 at the end of the six overs of fielding restrictions, openers Hamish Marshall and Kadeer Ali having both fallen to Ryan Watkins.

Dean Cosker had Alex Gidman stumped off the first ball of the eighth over, before Brown and Franklin launched the rescue act, sharing 81 for the fourth wicket.

Franklin then trapped Gareth Rees lbw off the second ball of the Glamorgan reply.

When Mark Wallace, Jamie Dalrymple and Mike Powell followed cheaply, the game was in the balance.

But Wright and Maynard combined to condemn Gloucestershire to the wooden spoon in the Mid/West/Wales Division.

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