GLAMORGAN beat Somerset in a rain-affected encounter in Cardiff to climb to second in the South group of the NatWest T20 Blast.

The hosts won by two runs after reaching 43 for one after six overs when the rain ended the encounter at the Swalec Stadium, giving them a two-run victory under the Duckworth-Lewis method.

After beating Gloucester by 19 runs on Friday night Glamorgan now sit second behind Hampshire with the leading pair joined on eight points by Essex and Kent.

The visitors were indebted to Tom Cooper for giving them a defendable total with a super innings of 84.

Overcast skies and a damp outfield combined to make scoring difficult inside the Somerset Powerplay.

Both Michael Hogan and Wayne Parnell got the ball to swing and seam to make boundaries very hard to come by. At the end of the first six overs Somerset were just 19-2 having lost both openers.

Marcus Trescothick departed in the first over and Allenby in fifth as Parnell returned figures of 2-16 off his full allocation. Hogan was even more economical, conceding 14 runs off his four overs.

Craig Meschede, on loan to Glamorgan from Somerset, picked up with wicket of Peter Trego who under edged a ball through to the wicket-keeper. That brought together James Hildreth and Tom Cooper who put on 47 runs in 5.3 overs.

When Hildreth departed Cooper played a lone hand at the death as the Dutch international hit six sixes on his way to 84 off 40 deliveries.

A cameo from Lewis Gregory saw him score 16 as he combined with Cooper as they put on 74 runs in 4.4 overs.

It was an incredible display of clean hitting from Cooper who went from 27 to 84 in just 18 balls. He was particularly brutal in his treatment of the bowling of Meschede and Graham Wagg who could not find a way to keep him from scoring boundaries at will.

The fielding from Glamorgan became ragged under this onslaught as Meschede, Hogan and Rudolph all dropped catches, although the latter two were very tough.

Having struggled with the ball and dropped an easy catch in the field Meschede managed to make a telling contribution with the bat.

Opening the batting with Rudolph, he got Glamorgan off to a flying start with 18 runs off just eight balls before he was caught in the deep off the bowling of Sohail Tanvir.

That innings enough of a boost to see Glamorgan get ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis par score and stay there when the rain arrived.

Glamorgan captain, Jacques Rudolph felt that even without the rain ending procedings his side were well placed to win.

He said; “I thought it was the kind of pitch early up front with the new ball it was very difficult. Even in our innings I found it very difficult to score but as the ball got a bit older and got hit to the boundary a few times it got a lot easy.

“Even if there wasn’t rain we would have been very confident of chasing that score.”