Foakes smashes Surrey to win over Glamorgan

Acting captain Ben Foakes produced a superb innings to earn Surrey's first win of the campaign

Surrey v Glamorgan, MetroBank One Day Cup

Glamorgan 308-7 (50 overs): Smale 105*; Barnwell 3-55

Surrey 146-5 (15.3 overs: target 146 in 16): Foakes 43*, Thomas 34; Gorvin 2-31, Douthwaite 2-40

Surrey won by 5 wickets via DLS method

Match scorecard

Ben Foakes blasted Surrey to a five-wicket win over Glamorgan, with a maiden century from Will Smale not enough for the defending champions.

Foakes, the wicket-keeper out of favour with England, hit 43 not out off just 17 balls to steer his side to an improbable target of 146 in 16 overs after a long rain-break.

Smale's well-paced knock of 105 not out off 106 steered Glamorgan to 308-7 despite losing early wickets to Surrey's raw young attack, Nathan Barnwell claiming 3-55.

Rain and lightning caused a lengthy interruption early in the Surrey innings, but Adam Thomas (34 off 24) and Foakes got Surrey off the mark in the third match of their campaign.

Glamorgan have just two points from their three games and may need to win their remaining five after a shock reverse against a well below-strength Surrey.

Surrey, depleted by 15 Hundred absentees, lost captain Ryan Patel to an ankle injury in the warm-up with Foakes taking over the captaincy at a few minutes' notice.

In contrast Glamorgan welcomed back Dan Douthwaite from a brief spell at the Hundred and Championship captain Sam Northeast, who had been rested.

A wild second over of the match from 18 year-old Alex French, playing only his second game, lasted 13 balls and cost Surrey 20 runs.

But the 6ft 7" quickie was kept on and rewarded the decision by getting rid of both openers, Eddie Byrom and Asa Tribe, with Byrom falling to a fine catch from French's former Cranleigh school-mate Adam Thomas as French finished with a creditable 2-49 in nine.

The pacey Barnwell, 22, made sure Surrey stayed in the game by sending back the experienced pair of Sam Northeast for 24 and Kiran Carlson for 25 to leave Glamorgan a precarious 117-4 in the 20th over.

Spinner Yousef Majid bowled his 10 overs for just 41 as Surrey kept the brakes on for long periods.

But Zain Ul Hassan (33) and Alex Horton (35) shared in key stands of 70 and 86 with Smale as Glamorgan batted intelligently to keep wickets in hand and leave the all-out acceleration until the final five overs.

Smale, dropping down the order to five from his usual top-three position, finished with seven fours and three sixes to ensure Glamorgan had a decent total to defend, albeit with a generous helping of 48 extras.

Test batter Rory Burns was well caught behind by Horton off Ul Hassan for 12, but with Surrey 21-1 off 5.1 overs, lightning flashes and torrential rain drove the players off in mid-afternoon.

After a delay of 142 minutes, Surrey needed a further 125 in 10.1 overs, which seemed a hugely challenging target.

But Thomas got the run-rate rising rapidly as most of Glamorgan's bowlers suffered apart from Ul Hassan, who took one for seven off three.

Thomas was brilliantly caught by Carlson off Andy Gorvin but Foakes continued finding the gaps and clearing the ropes to belie his reputation as an orthodox batter.

Just eight were needed off the last over and though Douthwaite yorked Josh Blake for an excellent 27 off 21, two full-toss no-balls saw Surrey home with three balls in hand.

Surrey's acting captain Ben Foakes said:

"I took over the captaincy about two minutes before the toss when Ryan rolled his ankle, so I was emergency captain, though I was playing (anyway) after missing the last game.

"We've not done amazingly in this competition and we do need to get some wins together, so to win a tight one when run-rates weren't in our favour is a great feeling, since we were underdogs when we went back out there.

"For a man of Adam Thomas's age (19) to have the courage and commitment to take on his match-up, that over swung it. Then I had a nice partnership with Blakey keeping it ticking over and hitting boundaries sporadically when we needed to."

"It helped having one short boundary so you can try to hit towards that, you need to play pretty well and have a bit of luck so it was a combination that got us over the line."

Glamorgan's Will Smale told BBC Sport Wales:

"It's a tough one to take, disappointing to be on the wrong side of the result though fair play to Surrey they chased it down pretty well. The rain played a big part and 300 would have been a tough chase but Foakes and others played well.

"From a personal note, with the bat, I'm very pleased. It means a lot, to make a first professional hundred and tick that one off is a really nice feeling and a weight off your shoulders so hopefully I can kick on.

"It was a slight tactical change (batting at five) because with Sam (Northeast) coming back, he's a quality player but I batted a lot at five growing up and I had some good partnerships with Zain and Alex.

"You go into a competition wanting to win all the games, the washout at Neath (against Derbyshire) didn't help so it's a massive five games and we'll give it everything we've got to try to defend the title."