Kent Spitfires suffered a three-wicket defeat to Glamorgan in another nailbiting finish in the Royal London One-Day Cup at Canterbury on Sunday evening.

Glamorgan made it three wins from three in the competition despite unbeaten centuries from Sam Billings and Joe Denly helping the Spitfires post a target of 293 for victory in a game which was reduced to 42 overs aside by lunchtime rain at the Spitfire Ground.

Denly made 104* at better than a run a ball but was outshone by Billing who smashed 106 not out from just 54 balls in a record stand of 170.

However they were not the decisive fireworks in the middle as South African left-hander Colin Ingram clubbed six sixes in a 53-ball stay which yielded 95 runs and steered his side to the line with seven balls to spare.

In a drizzly morning session Tom Latham (11) holed out to Michael Hogan off Graham Wagg with the scoreboard showing 30 and Hogan accounted for fellow opener Daniel Bell-Drummond for another breezy 31, getting him to nick behind to Chris Cooke to leave the hosts on 62-2 in the 14th over.

Denly and Sam Northeast put on 58 for the third wicket before Australian-born Dutch international Timm van der Gugten had the skipper caught for 26 from 41.

Northeast's departure came shortly before the rain descended causing the match to be reduced to 42 overs aside, but brought Billings into the middle to join Denly.

The pair spent 92 balls together but piled on 170 runs to break the Kent List A record for a fourth wicket against Glamorgan of 146 set by Chris Tavare and Alan Ealham in 1980.

The last 70 runs came from 30 balls.

Billings finished with an unbeaten 106 from just 54 balls with nine fours and five sixes while Denly had eight fours and two sixes in his 104 not out from 102 balls.

James Tredwell claimed a wicket in his opening over when he tempted Jacques Rudolph (24) to try and take him deep to the short boundary, only to send it down the throat of Alex Blake at deep square leg.

David Lloyd compiled a career best List A score of 65 from 60 balls before he hooked a Coles delivery to a diving Latham in the deep to take a stunning catch and leave the visitors on 146-2 with 18 overs remaining and end an 83-run partnership with Will Bragg.

Coles had previously seen Bragg caught off a no-ball but he followed Lloyd back to the pavilion in the very next over as Tredwell tempted him into a mistimed reverse which went straight to Blake to end his stay for 52 from 49 balls.

Tredwell collected his third scalp when young Aneurin Donald launched him to Latham at long-on for nine to make it 183-4 and end a quickfire partnership of 36 from 26 balls.

South African Colin Ingram remained and smashed three sixes and shared 55 in a 30-ball burst with Chris Cooke, who nicked on off Coles for 21 to leave the visitors on 238-5 with five overs remaining.

Ingram however added another huge six off David Griffiths and breezed past 50 before running-out Graham Wagg (8) after some calamitous running to begin the 38th over with 37 runs still needed.

The visitors were 24 runs short when Craig Meschede was run-out for eight going for a second, with Latham's fine throw allowing Billings to do the rest and leave the score on 269-7 and 15 balls remaining.

Ingram however hit 18 runs from four balls from Griffiths (0-59 from 7) and Claydon (0-76) allowing van der Gugten to hit the winning runs.

Coles finished with 2-52 from his nine overs while Tredwell had 3-55 off 8.