Having inserted Glamorgan upon winning the toss, two missed run outs in quick succession meant that Cape Town had to wait until the last ball of the ninth over before claiming the first wicket - by which stage Adrian Jackson had already compiled 23 from 20 balls to lead the way in posting 53 for the first wicket. It was Tom Main's left-arm spin that finally got the breakthrough, captain Jonathan Holgate behind the stumps whipping off the bails to claim the first of his three dismissals, while Main followed this up with another wicket in each of his next two overs as well. This included Jackson, whose 38 from 29 balls would prove to be the highest individual score of the match.
With their top three thus all gone in quick succession, this left Glamorgan needing to rebuild their momentum virtually from scratch. Only captain Randall Roberts managed to make much impression thereafter though, as Wayne Hendricks's own left-arm spinners took over from where Main had left off to dominate the remainder of the innings. Striking with his very first delivery, he subsequently reeled in victim after victim as a succession of Glamorgan batsmen holed out trying to get after him. Coupled with a run out as well, Glamorgan thus lost their last four wickets in the final over, Hendricks achieving the rare feat for this format of the game of completing a five-for - the best bowling return for the Cape Town First XI in this competition and his own personal best return for the team in any competition.
Left with the task of scoring a moderate 124 to win, Cape Town's start was rather less impressive at 34 for three - but was nevertheless always ahead of the asking rate. Dominic Telo, using his experience to hold the top order together, struck 27 from 16 balls as the only Cape Town batsman to reach the twenties, but penny-packet contributions by the entire middle order ensured that Glamorgan was never let back into the game. Jackson traded in his wicket-keeping gloves to pick up two return catches off his own bowling to go with the two that he had already held behind the stumps, but he was only delaying the inevitable as Cape Town swept to a bonus-point win with 23 deliveries still in hand.
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