T20 Blast round-up: Durham beat Lancs in thriller

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Ged Scott and Ben Kosky

BBC Sport England

Durham took apical honours connected a time of six much T20 Blast group games by upsetting North leaders Lancashire - but Somerset besides enjoyed occurrence to spell apical successful nan South.

On a time of 434 runs astatine Chester-le-Street, swashbuckling scores from Graham Clark and David Bedingham looked to person taken nan hosts retired of reach.

But visitors Lancashire kept battling, only going down successful nan extremity by 2 runs successful a melodramatic climax.

Lancs stay apical of North Group, 2 points clear of 3 different sides, Birmingham Bears - who won astatine Derby - Leicestershire, who hit Yorkshire astatine Headingley, and Northants, who won astatine Worcester.

In nan South Group, Somerset are now a constituent clear of second-placed Surrey, pinch Sussex successful 3rd and Essex fourth.

In nan day's only different crippled successful nan South, Gloucestershire won nan gathering of 2 teams astatine nan incorrect extremity of nan array by beating Kent astatine Canterbury.

Durham stun leaders successful North group

Clark (87 from 57 balls) and Bedingham (78 from 42) laid nan level for Durham, hitting 4 sixes each successful a 109-run guidelines arsenic Durham ran up 218-3 - their highest T20 full against Lancashire.

Durham past took wickets astatine regular intervals, spearheaded by an unbelievable caught-and-bowled from Paul Coughlin to region Matty Hurst and 3 wickets for Lancashire aged boy Callum Parkinson.

From 115-6, immoderate heroic lower-order hitting from Chris Green (38), George Balderson (37no) and Jack Blatherwick (17) almost sewage Lancs home, but they fell conscionable short connected 216-8.

Northants improved their hopes of making nan knockout stages arsenic they completed a double complete Worcestershire to make it 4 wins successful six matches.

But Worcestershire's 4th consecutive conclusion leaves them up against it.

On nan two-paced hybrid New Road pitch, nan visitors had a guidelines of 75 betwixt Matthew Breetzke (52) and Sikandar Raza (43) to convey for reaching 143-6.

But, though Bears aged boy Ethan Brookes deed 42, his associated highest T20 score, and skipper Brett D'Oliveira made 34, nan hosts vanished short connected 132-7 - chiefly stemmed by Ben Sanderson's 3-16.

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Dan Mousley deed his first T20 half-century of this year's competition

Birmingham Bears made it 4 wins successful six matches arsenic they climbed into nan apical 4 by beating Derbyshire.

A 93 guidelines betwixt Dan Mousley (66no) and Sam Hain (43) helped nan Bears to a seven-wicket triumph contempt Derbyshire opener David Lloyd's 50.

Leicestershire loan men Lewis Goldsworthy (3-20) and Scott Currie (3-19) shared six wickets arsenic nan Foxes fought backmost to hit Yorkshire at Headingley to declare a 4th triumph successful 7 games.

Opener Rishi Patel top-scored pinch 64 disconnected 47 balls arsenic nan Foxes were bowled retired for 166 pinch a shot to spare.

The Tykes' star-studded batting line-up cruised to 100-2 successful nan 13th complete and looked good group but, conscionable arsenic against nan Bears connected Friday night, they fell short.

Joe Root was caught astatine agelong connected for 30, past skipper Shan Masood fell excessively arsenic nan hosts slumped to 124-6 successful nan 17th complete earlier finishing connected 146-9 to suffer by 20 runs.

The Foxes jump into nan North Group’s apical four, while Yorkshire are seventh, having now won only 3 of their first six games.

Somerset apical South group

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Will Smeed deed 5 sixes and 9 fours arsenic he passed 50 successful T20 cricket for nan 17th clip successful his career

Will Smeed blazed 86 from 48 balls to group nan foundations for a 4th Somerset win connected nan bounce arsenic they thrashed Glamorgan by 108 runs to spell apical of South Group.

The opener smashed 9 fours and 5 sixes astatine Taunton earlier he was yorked by Dan Douthwaite – portion of a middle-order illness arsenic Somerset mislaid 5 wickets for 15, slumping to 123-7.

Douthwaite vanished pinch 4-37, but Craig Overton (42 from 24 balls) and Roelof van der Merwe (21no from 15) rescued Somerset pinch a counter-attacking business of 59 that lifted them to 193-8.

Having mislaid some openers wrong nan first 2 overs, Glamorgan’s innings was soon successful tatters arsenic Lewis Gregory (3-11) claimed nan cardinal wickets of Marnus Labuschagne and Sam Northeast, who top-scored pinch 24 from 15.

Overton (2-35) and Jake Ball (2-9) continued nan demolition occupation and nan visitors tumbled to 85 each retired successful 13.2 overs, pinch Van der Merwe taking 2 wickets from his first 2 deliveries to seal victory.

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Roelof van der Merwe vanished it disconnected pinch 2 wickets successful 2 balls

Miles Hammond’s career-best 80 from 41 balls helped Gloucestershire unafraid a first triumph successful 5 games, cantering location by 9 wickets against Kent Spitfires astatine Canterbury.

Gloucestershire restricted nan hosts to conscionable 125 each out, pinch Matt Taylor taking 3-30 earlier Hammond and Cameron Bancroft (39 from 30) amassed an opening guidelines of 119 and triumph was sealed pinch 8.2 overs to spare.