Smale hits maiden century but Glam lose out in thriller

Glamorgan 308/7 (50 overs) lost to Surrey 146/5 (15.3 overs) by five wickets (DLS)

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WILL Smale scored the first hundred of his professional cricket career but Glamorgan, the Metro Bank One-Day Cup's reigning champions, still lost to a Ben Foakes-inspired Surrey in a rain-shortened affair.

Smale, a 24-year-old from Newport playing his 15th List A match, finished on 105 not out from 106 balls and was chiefly responsible for Glamorgan reaching a 50-over total of 308 for seven at the Kia Oval.

But Foakes, captaining Surrey after Ryan Patel turned his ankle in the pre-match warm-ups, smashed 43 not out from just 17 balls and was joined by Josh Blake in an extraordinary stand of 77 in six overs that snatched the game away from Glam.

Heavy rain forced a delay of two hours and twenty minutes after Surrey had made 21 for one from 5.1 overs.

That resulted in a revised target of 146 in 16 overs, following Duckworth Lewis Stern calculations and a 5.50pm restart, meaning 125 more runs were needed in 10.5 remaining overs.

It looked a stiff task but, with 40 still needed from the last three overs, Foakes hit legside sixes off Kiran Carlson and Andy Gorvin - after Blake had also struck Carlson for amaximum to long on.