Gloucestershire beat Somerset to win first T20 title

Vitality Blast Finals Day, Edgbaston - Final

Somerset 124 (19.4 overs): Gregory 53; M Taylor 3-28, Payne 3-27

Gloucestershire 129-2 (14.5 overs): Hammond 58*, Bancroft 53

Gloucestershire triumph by 8 wickets

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Gloucestershire won their first T20 Blast title successful glorious style arsenic they comprehensively outplayed West Country rivals Somerset.

Openers Cameron Bancroft and Miles Hammond some deed half-centuries astatine Edgbaston arsenic they won by 8 wickets pinch 31 balls to spare.

Somerset's hopes of a trophy treble, which had been fixed specified a large boost by Thursday's sensational County Championship triumph complete Surrey, accrued erstwhile they hit Surrey again successful a well-contested semi-final.

But that treble dream ended erstwhile they proved to beryllium simply nary lucifer for a Gloucestershire broadside who came from obscurity to compression done successful nan Southern Group, past followed it up pinch 3 consecutive Edgbaston wins.

The unlikely quarter-final triumph complete Birmingham Bears eight days ago, Saturday afternoon's eight-wicket triumph complete Sussex and past this repetition eight-wicket walloping earned Gloucestershire their first knockout trophy triumph since 2015.

Somerset still person nan Championship title and nan One-Day Cup to spell at, Gloucestershire became nan 14th broadside to triumph nan T20 - leaving Yorkshire, Durham, Derbyshire and Glamorgan arsenic nan only 4 sides who person not done so.

After being inserted by Gloucestershire, Tom Kohler-Cadmore sewage complete his semi-final aureate duck to make a agleam commencement pinch Will Smeed, smashing 28 disconnected nan first 3 overs.

But Somerset past wobbled arsenic Smeed steered Matt Taylor's first shot consecutive to backward point. And Taylor past added a 2nd wicket successful nan complete erstwhile he deceived Kohler-Cadmore pinch his slower shot and Tom Price took an off-side catch.

Taylor past had different disconnected nan last shot of his adjacent complete erstwhile James Rew was caught successful nan covers by a diving Cameron Bancroft. And, conscionable 2 balls later, Somerset's different semi-final half-centurion leader Sean Dickson besides fell cheaply first shot erstwhile he reverse-swept into his limb stump, disconnected Ollie Price.

Tom Abell perished to Tom Price astatine agelong on, past David Payne struck doubly successful 2 balls erstwhile Benny Green was caught disconnected a starring separator astatine backward constituent and Craig Overton looped a slower transportation to Jack Taylor diving guardant to return nan drawback astatine mid off.

After Roelof van der Merwe was caught behind, skipper Gregory eked a fewer much to spell to his half-century earlier he was ninth retired and Jake Ball was past retired successful nan last over.

But 124 - nan lowest first-innings people successful a T20 last since Warwickshire made conscionable 115 successful nan very first last successful 2003 - ne'er looked astir enough.