Somerset lost their first match of the season when they were beaten by 19 runs by Glamorgan in the Friends Provident Trophy at the County Ground.

After being asked to bat first the Dragons were restricted to 221 for seven in their 50 overs thanks to some tidy bowling from the Somerset attack.

The Glamorgan total depended heavily upon 95 from captain David Hemp who shared in a second wicket partnership of 91 with Michael Powell who made 32.

For the Sabres, Charl Willoughby ended with the miserly figures of one for 27 from his 10 overs, newboy Alfonso Thomas took two for 43 from his stint and Steffan Jones one for 33 from his 10.

The Somerset openers Marcus Trescothick and Craig Kieswetter also found runs hard to come by and with the total on 30 'Tresco' was bowled for 15.

Zander de Bruyn was run out following a mix up and with the score on 39 Kieswetter was caught at extra cover for 18.

When the hero of Friday night James Hildreth was leg before wicket the Sabres had slipped to 45 for four.

Ian Blackwell hit two sixes and put on 28 with Langer, but with the total on 73 the captain was out for seven.

Blackwell and Durston took Somerset onto 98 but after scoring 42 Blackwell was leg before wicket to Cosker. The same bowler accounted for Durston for 15.

Thomas joined Trego and added 39 for the eighth wicket before the debutant was out for 16.

Trego hit 30 before he was caught at deep extra cover off Wharf after which Steffan Jones hit three sixes to raise the hopes of the good sized crowd, but after brining up the 200 and moving onto 42 he was caught at long on as Somerset were all out for 202 in 46.5 overs.

At the end of the game Somerset captain Justin Langer said: "I thought that a lot of good things came out today. The arrival of Alfonso Thomas was really promising, particularly looking forward to our one-day cricket. Charl Willoughby and Steffan Jones had a great game with the ball again and 'Blackie' is playing really good cricket at the moment."

"Overall it was our batting that let us down and that is where we lost it as we did a few times last year in the first 15 overs with the bat and this is something that we have to look at."

"The later order rallied well for us but at the end of the day they are not paid to win the game for us it is the batters who should be doing this for us. Something about this team is that we bat really deep and that is a really secure feeling to have as a captain but fortunately we lost too many wickets early on."

"We lost today, however we have had two really good games and had a good half a game at Worcester. We are playing good cricket but maybe this is the kick in the backside we needed."

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