Middlesex win One Day Cup final after Horley ton

Glamorgan 211 (44.5 overs): Gammon 58, Freeborn 43; Horley 4-36, Davis 3-36

Captain Saskia Horley hit a remarkable century as Middlesex beat Glamorgan by 67 runs to win the One Day Cup League Two final in Bristol.

Horley hit 117 from 86 balls, including 13 boundaries, and put on 131 for the fourth wicket with Finty Trussler.

Trussler and Pippa Sproul both scored 43 in a dominant batting performance as Middlesex posted 278-6, aided by some below-par Glamorgan fielding.

Bethan Gammon top scored for the Welsh side with 58 but they were all out for 211, with Horley also leading from the front with the ball when taking 4 for 36.

Middlesex secured their maiden One Day Cup title while Glamorgan were denied the perfect farewell to tier-two cricket in their final match before turning professional.

Middlesex started strongly when opener Artemis Downer, who hit an unbeaten 60 when they hammered Glamorgan by 10 wickets earlier in September, impressed with a couple of boundaries before being caught at point off Anna-Mae Shearn.

Izzy Routledge and Sproul helped steady the ship with a fluent 60-run partnership, before Routledge was caught at mid-off from a Nicole Reid delivery.

Sproul soon followed for a solid 43 from 67 balls when caught and bowled by Poppy Walker.

Poor Glamorgan fielding, with several dropped catches and a missed stumping, boosted Middlesex as Horley and Trussler put on 131 before the latter was stumped by Abbey Freeborn off the bowling of Eve Jackson.

Horley's innings was ended on 117 but she helped Middlesex set a tough target of 279.

They got their breakthrough in the fifth over when influential captain Lauren Parfitt was bowled by Siya Nanavati for eight.

Glamorgan's woes continued when the hard-hitting Daisy Jeanes was caught at mid-wicket off Issy Routledge.

The wickets continued to tumble when Horley followed up her century by taking the wickets of Bethan Ellis and Megan Sturge as Glamorgan slumped to 72-4.