Somerset stun Surrey again to win first T20 semi

Vitality Blast Finals Day, Edgbaston - First semi-final

Surrey 153-9: Sibley 48; Gregory 3-15, Davey 3-34

Somerset 159-4: Dickson 78, Rew 62*; Worrall 2-15

Somerset triumph by six wickets

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Somerset produced 1 of nan awesome T20 Finals Day comebacks arsenic they recovered from 7-3 to hit Surrey successful comfortableness by six wickets and scope their 3rd last successful 4 years.

Just 2 days aft Somerset hit Surrey successful melodramatic style successful nan County Championship, it looked for illustration nan Brown Caps mightiness get their revenge.

Defending a full of 153-9, Surrey quickly took nan wickets of Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Tom Abell and Will Smeed successful nan abstraction of conscionable 13 balls.

But James Rew and Sean Dickson some deed half-centuries arsenic they posted a highest-ever Finals Day business of 144 for nan 4th wicket to spot their broadside to a grounds seventh last pinch 8 balls to spare.

The Cider Boys person only won 2 of their erstwhile six finals - successful 2005 against Lancashire astatine The Oval, and past again astatine Edgbaston 14 months ago, erstwhile they besides hit Surrey en way to overcoming Essex.

They will go nan first region to take sides nan T20 title if they tin now besides spell connected to hit nan winners of nan 2nd semi-final betwixt Sussex and Gloucestershire.

After being put into bat, Dan Lawrence made a blistering commencement for nan southbound London side, hitting 3 fours arsenic he raced to 19 disconnected 10 balls - but past he went for 1 large changeable excessively galore disconnected his 11th and hoisted a skier to Abell disconnected Josh Davey.

Two much of Surrey's England contingent, Ollie Pope and Dom Sibley, who deed nan first six of nan match, past added 43 successful 4 and a half overs earlier 2 wickets went down successful arsenic galore balls.

Gregory bowled some stand-in England Test skipper Pope and England Test keeper Jamie Smith - and was past progressive again erstwhile he ran retired Rory Burns.

Gregory took his 3rd wicket erstwhile Sibley lofted a drawback to nan heavy mid-wicket bound connected 48, earlier Jake Ball sewage successful connected nan enactment erstwhile he bowled Tom Curran.

But it was near to Laurie Evans - nan only non-England world successful Surrey's apical 8 - to bludgeon a fewer precocious blows, including nan only different six of nan innings, to spot his broadside past nan 150 mark.

Somerset sewage disconnected to a nightmare commencement successful reply erstwhile they mislaid Kohler-Cadmore first shot to Dan Worrall.

It past sewage worse successful nan adjacent complete erstwhile Curran sewage free of Abell earlier Worrall made it 7-3 4 balls later, erstwhile he had opener Smeed caught behind.

But 20-year-old Rew, only playing because of nan sadistic midweek ankle wounded to quarter-final match-winner Tom Banton, was having nary of that - arsenic he came together pinch Dickson to forge a fabulous partnership.

Dickson deed 3 sixes and 8 fours successful his 78 earlier holing retired conscionable earlier nan end, while Rew stayed to spot it crossed nan statement connected 62 not retired arsenic Gregory vanished it each disconnected pinch a six complete 3rd man.