Vitality Blast 2025: 3 Reasons Why Glamorgan Lost to Surrey

On a cool Cardiff evening that was made for a Glamorgan win, the home side blinked first. Chasing a below-par 150 runs, their start had a purpose. It began as a polite knock, then Carlson and Smale kicked the door off its hinges. They were cruising, like a convertible at full pace on a Welsh summer day. But cricket is a funny game, especially T20 cricket. It can turn quicker than a dodgy DRS review – and turn it did. 

The Middle-Order Meltdown

The first big crack? A classic case of mid-innings muddle. After the solid opening stand, Glamorgan’s engine just coughed and spluttered. Ingram and Cooke were tasked with steering the chase, and together they had a combined strike rate of barely over 70. In a chase of 150, you can’t trot at that pace – they were effectively self-sabotaging their chase. 

Kellaway flashed briefly, but Ingram’s 10 runs off 13 deliveries were a tactical pothole that Glamorgan never recovered from. Strong, constricted scoring brought the pressure on like a heavy Welsh fog! Carlson’s early excitement was an echo far back in the past as wickets began to fall like dominoes, and Glamorgan were left staring at the scoreboard as if it were a greasy climbing wall…

Sam Curran’s Late-Innings Masterclass

Now it’s time for Mr. Death Overs, also known as Sam Curran. The Surrey captain had a relatively slow start with the bat in hand, but ensured his ball did all the talking. Coming on to bowl in the death overs, he laid it on with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker. Just 37 more were needed, 24 deliveries remained, and six stood tall—but then came Sam, plucking Cooke, Douthwaite, and Kerr like wilted petals from a doomed bouquet.

His 3/18 from four overs, with a burst of two wickets in the 17th over, ripped the spine out of Glamorgan’s chase. If you add Chris Jordan’s vintage spell, 3 wickets – all at clutch times – you are looking at some vintage bowling partners, taking a neat little careful choke hold over the hosts. Not just wickets – they bowled moments, wrested belief away, and turned the final overs into Surrey’s highlight reel.

The Finisher Vacuum

The bigger picture? Glamorgan’s perpetual over-reliance on five or six players. We saw Carlson’s top-order intent, and we saw Smale’s purpose with a run-a-ball knock – but after that, it was a string of ‘maybes’ and ‘might-have-beens’. No finisher stood up. No late cameo brought them to life. 

And unlike in their chase in Surrey, where Roy’s demolition job (69 off 47) provided the anchor to let others play around him, Glamorgan had no one ready to wear the hero’s cape. Their bowling had given them a chance, especially Douthwaite’s zippy 3-fer, but batters treated the target like it was a ticking bomb, as if it were not a chaseable total. They played scared when they were meant to play smart.

As the final delivery trickled away, and Glamorgan lost by seven runs, what hurt most wasn’t the defeat, but how. Glamorgan practically had the game zipped up! They had the match in the pocket, so to speak, and ready to bank. But through a mix of defensive middle-order batting, a Sam Curran-shaped demolition artist, and Glamorgan’s inability to find that one finisher to see it home, the game slipped from their grasp. Surrey will leave with the points – Glamorgan will leave kicking themselves the entire journey to the next team talk.

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