Kent Spitfires (189-6) beaten by seven wickets by Glamorgan (191-3) in T20 match at Cardiff

Kent Spitfires were beaten for the third straight T20 South group game, losing by seven wickets to Glamorgan in Cardiff on Friday night.

Setting the hosts a target of 190 for victory, Glamorgan stalwarts Colin Ingram and Chris Cooke shared a stand worth 109 to get them home with 18 balls to spare.

Kent’s innings had a strong start thanks to a career-best T20 score from Tawanda Muyeye and a powerful finish but a stutter in the middle overs proved costly in a high-scoring game.

Spitfires head coach Matt Walker said: “The first half was pretty good it seemed, we felt that was a pretty good score.

“We felt 189 was above par - on the numbers it was above par, 164 on average is a winning total here.

“We thought we were in a pretty good position but, to be honest, if we bowl like that, 189 is nowhere near enough.

“It was poor, there’s no beating around the bush. We can try and find the positives out of it, there weren’t really any with the ball. We just didn’t get it right.

“We made it very easy for them, we bowled too wide, we just weren’t really able to create any real pressure other than I suppose Michael Hogan, who I thought bowled well.

“But other than that, I don’t think they really broke sweat in that run chase.

“[It was] extremely disappointing, it just wasn’t good enough from a Kent team.”

The Spitfires were put into bat and it looked as if Glamorgan had made the wrong call as Daniel Bell-Drummond and Muyeye raced along initially.

Muyeye was the main aggressor as 63 runs were scored off the first six overs, with Jamie McIlroy and Zain-ul-Hassan struggling to keep the away openers under control.

It was the introduction of Australian leg-spinner Peter Hatzoglou which brought Glamorgan back into the game. He made the