weather at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff prevented a match from getting underway between Glamorgan Dragons and Northamptonshire Steelbacks, resulting in the Dragons being knocked out. (Cricinfo scorecard) Glamorgan v Gloucestershire (5 July) Glamorgan (2pts) beat Gloucestershire (0pts) by ten wickets Glamorgan Dragons broke their streak of five successive matches without a win as they achieved victory without any of their batsmen getting dismissed at Sophia Gardens. The two brothers David and Adam Harrison took two wickets each for Glamorgan, as Gloucestershire Gladiators lost their first seven wickets for 57. Jon Lewis and Mark Alleyne then shared a 68-run stand, but a quick burst of wickets from Robert Croft and Andrew Davies saw them bowled out for 128. Croft and Matthew Elliott both made fifties as Glamorgan knocked off the runs with ten wickets and 7.3 overs to spare, helped by five no-balls and four wides from the Gloucestershire bowlers. (Cricinfo scorecard) Worcestershire v Glamorgan (6 July) Worcestershire (2pts) beat Glamorgan (0pts) by 37 runs Both Worcestershire Royals and Glamorgan Dragons were knocked out before the last round of the Twenty20 Cup group stage, so the result of the match at New Road was academic. It did not stop Worcestershire from amassing the fourth-highest total in Twenty20 Cup history with 223 for 9 – Ben Smith taking 45 balls to smack 105 off the Glamorgan bowlers, with twelve fours and six sixes, as he lifted his career Twenty20 average from 15 to 20.62. The partnership of 149 with Graeme Hick was enough to win the match for Worcestershire, as Glamorgan failed to score quickly enough Worcestershire and Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar – who bowled two overs for 14 with a no-ball and a wide. Glamorgan ended up by losing five wickets in 20 overs, but 224 was too high a rate after Akhtar's seven-an-over spell, and they finished with a total 186 for 5. (Cricinfo scorecard) July After two wins to end the Twenty20 Cup, it was back to losing in the County Championship, going down to Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge for their eighth loss in nine games. In the National League, however, they jumped up to third place thanks to a five-wicket win over Worcestershire. However, they looked unlikely to advance further from that third place, as they went down to second-placed Middlesex at home in the National League, and Middlesex also defeated them in the County Championship encounter,