Throwback Thursday - Gloucestershire win Royal London One-Day Cup at Lord's
19 September 2019
On this day in 2015, Gloucestershire won the Royal London One-Day Cup Final at Lord's after beating Surrey by six runs in a thrilling encounter!
Eleven years after the club’s last major trophy success, the young squad came of age to beat Surrey by six runs in the final over of the match.
Watch highlights below:
With seven runs needed off the last six balls and two wickets left, David Payne held his nerve to dismiss Sam Curran and Gareth Batty to spark wild celebrations.
To watch the video of the squad singing their traditional winning song click below
Fittingly it was man-of-the-match Jack Taylor on the square leg boundary who took the winning catch to write a new chapter in the club’s proud one-day history.
The 23-year-old allrounder also played a pivotal role with bat and ball taking 3-43 and smashing 35 off 26 balls to inspire his side to a famous victory.
Having been bowled out for 220 the game looked to slipping away when Kumar Sangakarra and Rory Burns added 101 for the third wicket.
Enter Taylor.
First Sangakarra (60) was caught by sub fielder Will Tavare at mid-on attempting an uncharacteristic lofted shot down the ground to make it 143-3 in the 35th over.
Taylor then struck again in his next over as Burns (56) was stumped needlessly trying to increase the scoring rate.
With two new men at the crease and the Glos fans in full voice the run rate began to climb.
Buoyed by the wickets the supporters became even more vociferous, adding to the pressure Surrey were suddenly under.
With 56 needed off 57 balls Gary Wilson (8) succumbed, caught by a diving Klinger at mid-wicket off the bowling of Tom Smith.
This brought 40-year-old Azhar Mahmood in to join Sam Curran, a man 23 years his junior.
The younger man hit 37 off 39 balls to take his side within touching distance of the trophy but as wickets continued to fall at the other end he too gave in to the growing momentum behind Gloucestershire.
Smith (2-42) dismissed Mahmood (5), Tom Curran (0) became Taylor’s third wicket and a Chris Dent run out did for James Burke (11) to help set up the crucial final over.
Earlier Glos had been bowled out for 220 with Jade Dernbach taking a hat-trick as he recorded career-best figures of 6-35.
Speaking before his final match Geraint Jones , told Glos to “dare to dream” but they got off to a nightmare start as they lost Michael Klinger to the third ball of the day.
The skipper was caught behind by Wilson after flashing at a short wide delivery from Jade Dernbach.
Such as been Klinger’s dominance in the competition – scoring 531 runs at an average of 132.75 before the final – that you could forgive the travelling Glos fans for fearing the worst.
But their concerns were quickly allayed as Dent and Roderick put on a bright partnership of 40 before Dent (22 off 20 balls) – who had looked in fine touch – drilled a full ball from Dernbach straight at Azhar Mahmood at mid off for a comfortable catch.
Roderick battled hard but found scoring increasingly difficult in the face of a disciplined Surrey attack and a testing wicket.
He went 15 overs without a boundary before breaking the lull with a cover drive off Sam Curran in the 16th over.
Marshall (18)had also found runs hard to come by and he was stumped trying to force the pace off offspinner Gareth Batty (1-43).
Veteran Pakistani allrounder Mahmood (2-28) was proving a handful and bowled both Benny Howell (9) and Roderick (39) with balls that nipped back in off the seam down the famous Lord’s slope to make it 108-4 in the 25th.
In his last ever match Geraint Jones had been greeted with a warm reception from both sets of supporters.
And together with Tom Smith he set about watchfully rebuilding the innings.
The pair put on 52 before Smith (20) was run out by Dernbach with the score on 160.
This brought Jack Taylor to the crease. Prior to the final he had the highest strike rate of any player with over 100 runs in this year’s competition and he set about maintaining that record.
He ignited the innings with some powerful hitting including consecutive sixes into the Mound Stand as Glos plundered 20 off Tom Curran in the 45th over.
But Taylor’s brilliant cameo of 35 off just 26 balls came to an end in the following over when he found Sam Curran at backward point off Dernbach for to make it 209-7.
Jones brought up his 50 in the 48th over with a boundary off Dernbach through third man and celebrated by waving his bat to his family in the crowd.
But he became the first wicket of Dernbach’s hat-trick next ball when he was bowled by a yorker with the score on 220.
Next up was Craig Miles, who was well caught by Wilson, diving down leg side to snaffle an inside edge.
Dernbach became only the third man to take a hat-trick in a Lord’s final in controversial fashion as David Payne was adjudged LBW to a slower ball that him in the midriff.
TV replays suggested it wouldn’t have gone on to hit the stumps but the decision was given, sparking wild celebrations from the former England man.
Defending 220 Glos needed to start well and did so with fine opening bursts from Payne and James Fuller.
The latter was particularly impressive, recovering from being hit for four first ball to finish with 2-34 - including the key early wickets of Roy (11) and Davies (13).
That made it 42-2 and brought Rory Burns in to join Kumar Sangakarra. But after a patient partnership they both fell within two overs as Gloucestershire grabbed hold of the game and didn’t let up until the end.
Watch the video interview with David Payne and Chris Dent below:
