Hildreth is Taunton's darling once more as hits career-best
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Somerset 372 for 7 (Hildreth 159) beat Glamorgan 289 (Ingram 85) by 83 runsScorecardJames Hildreth's career-best one-day score of 159 propelled Somerset to an 83-run Royal London One-Day Cup over Glamorgan in glorious sunshine at Taunton.
It was the 33-year-old's seventh List A hundred. His brilliant 125-ball innings featured eight sixes and 13 fours, helping his side post 372 for 7 on a prime batting wicket after losing the toss.
In reply, Glamorgan made 289 all out, Colin Ingram top-scoring with 85 off 70 balls. A crowd of around 3,500 saw 19 sixes in an entertaining match.
Hildreth, who already has two Specsavers County Championship centuries to his name this season, shared a third-wicket stand of 98 with Peter Trego after Somerset had slipped to 49 for 2.
Trego's half-century occupied 54 balls, with 7 fours. He was looking set for a big score when looking to lift Graham Wagg over mid-wicket and picking out David Lloyd, who took a comfortable catch.
Tom Banton's first List A innings ended on 11 with an injudicious reverse sweep straight to Andrew Salter at short third-man. Somerset were 174 for 4 in the 31st over, with Hildreth having reached a 58-ball half-century.
A key moment came with his score on 63 when he should have been caught by Jack Murphy at deep mid-wicket off Colin Ingram. Instead, the fielder let the ball slip through his hands for six.
It proved a costly error. On 79, Hildreth brought up 5,000 runs in List A cricket and his stand of 86 with the impressive Abell took less than nine overs.
Abell faced 25 balls for his 40, cracking 7 fours. When he fell to Wagg, Hildreth quickly moved to 100 off as many balls and then went into overdrive with some big sixes to pass his previous best one-day score of 151, made against Scotland in 2009.
He eventually fell to a tired shot in the 48th over, but Craig Overton made sure Somerset maintained momentum to the end with 23 off ten balls.
Glamorgan's only hope after losing two wickets in the first ten overs rested on a big stand between Shaun Marsh and Ingram, who both looked in menacing form.
They added 63 before Marsh's innings was ended by a fine running catch by Max Waller coming in from long-off, with Tim Groenewald the successful bowler.
Ingram moved to a 41-ball half-century, but Glamorgan reached 30 overs with only 159 for four on the board and required a further 214. Somerset's comprehensively outfielded their opponents and when Overton took a well-judged catch on the long-off boundary to dismiss Ingram for 85 it was 206 for 5, with the required run-rate well into double figures.
Marchant de Lange (40) hit two of the first three balls he received for six and Wagg produced some defiant blows. But it was all in vain as Somerset made it maximum points from the first two South Group games.
It was the 33-year-old's seventh List A hundred. His brilliant 125-ball innings featured eight sixes and 13 fours, helping his side post 372 for 7 on a prime batting wicket after losing the toss.
In reply, Glamorgan made 289 all out, Colin Ingram top-scoring with 85 off 70 balls. A crowd of around 3,500 saw 19 sixes in an entertaining match.
Hildreth, who already has two Specsavers County Championship centuries to his name this season, shared a third-wicket stand of 98 with Peter Trego after Somerset had slipped to 49 for 2.
Trego's half-century occupied 54 balls, with 7 fours. He was looking set for a big score when looking to lift Graham Wagg over mid-wicket and picking out David Lloyd, who took a comfortable catch.
Tom Banton's first List A innings ended on 11 with an injudicious reverse sweep straight to Andrew Salter at short third-man. Somerset were 174 for 4 in the 31st over, with Hildreth having reached a 58-ball half-century.
A key moment came with his score on 63 when he should have been caught by Jack Murphy at deep mid-wicket off Colin Ingram. Instead, the fielder let the ball slip through his hands for six.
It proved a costly error. On 79, Hildreth brought up 5,000 runs in List A cricket and his stand of 86 with the impressive Abell took less than nine overs.
Abell faced 25 balls for his 40, cracking 7 fours. When he fell to Wagg, Hildreth quickly moved to 100 off as many balls and then went into overdrive with some big sixes to pass his previous best one-day score of 151, made against Scotland in 2009.
He eventually fell to a tired shot in the 48th over, but Craig Overton made sure Somerset maintained momentum to the end with 23 off ten balls.
Glamorgan's only hope after losing two wickets in the first ten overs rested on a big stand between Shaun Marsh and Ingram, who both looked in menacing form.
They added 63 before Marsh's innings was ended by a fine running catch by Max Waller coming in from long-off, with Tim Groenewald the successful bowler.
Ingram moved to a 41-ball half-century, but Glamorgan reached 30 overs with only 159 for four on the board and required a further 214. Somerset's comprehensively outfielded their opponents and when Overton took a well-judged catch on the long-off boundary to dismiss Ingram for 85 it was 206 for 5, with the required run-rate well into double figures.
Marchant de Lange (40) hit two of the first three balls he received for six and Wagg produced some defiant blows. But it was all in vain as Somerset made it maximum points from the first two South Group games.
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