Rain wipes out 50-over final, and threatens contingency day too

All-day rain forced the 50-over Metro Bank final between Glamorgan and Somerset into its reserve day of Monday but the forecast is for even heavier rain.

No limited-overs competition in county cricket, dating back to 1962, has ever ended without an outright winner but that appears to be the likely outcome of the third Metro Bank competition.

For Glamorgan a share of the trophy would mark some progress under their new coach Grant Bradburn. For Somerset a share would be something to show at the end of a season when they competed strongly with Surrey for the championship and were losing finalists in the T20 Vitality Blast.

Glamorgan won the degraded, or downgraded, 50-over competition in its first year, Leicestershire in the second, as the Hundred drains off all the best white-ball cricketers in England and Wales - more than a hundred of them - from more affluent counties.

The umpires were hoping to squeeze in a 20-over game between showers but the rain never relented.

While most of the players on both sides tend to be second-teamers and other young aspirants, Somerset have selected the England left-arm spinner Jack Leach, who is almost reaching veteran status.

If a 20-over game is possible on the reserve day, the starting elevens can still be altered because no toss has yet been made, but Somerset also selected Archie Vaughan in their original team.

The 18-year-old off-spinner took even more wickets (11) than Leach when they bowled out Surrey twice in an epic championship game earlier this month.