Lauren Parfitt's 86 sends Glamorgan Cricket to 65-run win

Lauren Parfitt’s 86 off 58 balls carried glamorgan cricket to a 65-run win over Gloucestershire in Bristol, a clean start to their Women's Vitality Blast League Two campaign. The result also stretched Glamorgan’s winning run to seven straight matches after they arrived unbeaten in six One Day Cup and T20 County Cup games.

Parfitt and Jeanes set the pace

Glamorgan reached 184-6 in 20 overs after Parfitt and Daisy Jeanes raced to 55 in the powerplay. Their opening stand was worth 74, and it gave the visitors the kind of platform Gloucestershire never fully erased.

Jeanes added 38, while the innings kept moving even after Megan McColl was lost to injury in the warm-up. That left Parfitt carrying the batting load, and she did it without wasting balls in a chase that asked Gloucestershire for 9.25 an over.

Gloucestershire's chase stalls

Gloucestershire were held to 119-6 in 20 overs, with the chase never getting close after they reached only 37 for one in the powerplay. Rebecca Halliday made 17 and debutant Amelie Munday added 20, but Glamorgan kept the pressure on through the middle overs.

Emily Geach top-scored with 32 not out for Gloucestershire and Melissa Story made 29, yet their sixth-wicket stand of 52 came too late to change the outcome. Story was stumped off the final ball.

Glamorgan's bowlers close it out

Nicole Reid finished with 1-13 from four overs, while Eve Jackson and Gemma Porter took two wickets each. Jackson also removed Halliday when her middle stump was taken out, a dismissal that broke Gloucestershire’s resistance before the lower order tried to rebuild.

Geach’s 3-24 was Gloucestershire’s best return with the ball, but it did not stop Glamorgan from posting the season’s opening win. For a side preparing for professional level in 2027, the margin and the control across both innings were the sharper signs than the final total alone.