T20 Blast Round-up: Samit Patel guides Notts Outlaws to win over Yorkshire
Tuesday 19 July 2016 19:08, UK
An impressive half-century from Samit Patel saw Notts Outlaws to a thrilling three-wicket victory over Yorkshire Vikings and a place in the quarter-finals of the NatWest T20 Blast.
Patel scored 58, making his runs from 47 balls, with two fours and two sixes. It was his 19th score of fifty or more in the domestic T20 competition.
Chasing 161, the hosts recovered from a nervy start to reach their target in 19.4 overs, with Chris Read finishing on 35 not out.
Michael Lumb had been bowled by Azeem Rafiq and both Riki Wessels and Dan Christian were then undone by Steven Patterson as Notts slumped to 47-3 within the powerplay overs.
With other results going their way Notts are assured of progressing to their sixth quarter-final in seven years while Yorkshire may need to win all of their remaining three matches to join them.
The scrap for qualifying places in the North Group intensified as former leaders Northamptonshire lost by six wickets to Durham at Chester-le-Street.
By maintaining their unbeaten home record, Durham strengthened their hold on fourth place with two of their remaining three games also at home.
But they turned a stroll into a scramble as they replied to 149-5 with an opening stand of 77 inside 10 overs, then slipped to 89-4 with Ben Stokes falling for one.
Eoin Morgan top-scored with 43 as Middlesex boosted their hopes of a quarter-final place with a five-wicket win over Somerset at Taunton.
The hosts were bowled out in 19.3 overs for a paltry 137 after winning the toss as their desperately disappointing South Group campaign yielded an eighth defeat. Jim Allenby top-scored with 64, while Toby Roland-Jones claimed 3-24.
Middlesex coasted to victory with five balls to spare as Morgan, Dawid Malan (24), George Bailey (21) and John Simpson (23 not out) led the way to the modest target.
Leicestershire's record Twenty20 score at Grace Road proved only just enough to beat Lancashire after Alviro Petersen's superb unbeaten century for the defending champions.
Leicestershire's 207-3, after being put in by Lancashire, was built on a brutal partnership of 140 between Mark Pettini and Cameron Delport for the second wicket, compiled in just 12.1 overs.
Kent's Daniel Bell-Drummond smashed an unbeaten 112 to ease the Spitfires to an eight-wicket NatWest T20 Blast win over Surrey.
The former England Under-19 opener's maiden limited-overs hundred helped post Kent's sixth south group win and keep their qualification hopes alive.
Worcestershire Rapids kept alive their slim hopes of reaching the quarter-finals with a five-wicket victory over local rivals Birmingham Bears after some explosive hitting from Ross Whiteley.
The Rapids ended a run of five successive defeats in completed matches and did the double over their neighbours to retain the Norman Gifford Trophy as Whiteley's free scoring enabled them to reach their 165 target with four balls to spare.
Sussex's hopes of making the knockout stages were dealt a huge blow after they lost by one run to Hampshire at Hove.
The Sharks were in control on 109-3 in the 15th over, chasing 135, and still looked favourites when Brad Wheal bowled the final over with five needed.
Will Beer took a single off the first ball and Ross Taylor one off the third before Beer ran himself out to get the New Zealander back on strike with three needed off two balls.
Taylor failed to make contact on the fifth delivery and could only dig the last - an excellent yorker - into the leg side, running out his partner Jofra Archer as Sussex finished on 133-8 and a full-house crowd left wondering how they threw away a winning position.
