T20 Blast Thursday 9th June & Friday 10th June

Somerset 189-4 beat Surrey 186-4 by 6 wickets

Somerset complete a very impressive run-chase to beat Surrey with four balls remaining.

An unbeaten fifth-wicket partnership of 87 between Johann Myburgh (86 not out) and Roelof van der Merwe (39 not out) gets them home after Chris Gayle (31) with the early lusty blows.


Worcestershire 170-7 beat Northants 169-7 by 3 wickets

Worcestershire hand Northants their first defeat in the T20 Blast this season, as Ben Cox hits Azharullah for nine runs from three balls in the final over.

Cox finishes unbeaten on 42 off 24 balls, sealing the win from the platform provided by Tom Kohler-Cadmore's 60 from 49, which helped keep the Rapids in contention after three early wickets had fallen.


Glamorgan 172-4 beat Gloucestershire 168-8 by 6 wickets

Glamorgan have steamrollered their way to victory in Bristol and recorded their second win against Gloucestershire in limited-overs cricket in five days.

It's the Welsh county's third win in their last four T20 Blast games and fifth win in six in all one-day cricket this season.

Ian Cockbain and Kieran Noema-Barnett both his 37 runs as Gloucestershire posted a score of 168-8 from their 20 overs, despite Dale Steyn (2-21) and Graham Wagg (2-28) doing their best to peg them back.


But Glamorgan were carried by Colin Ingram's superb 64 and form-man Aneurin Donald's 48 as they eased to the win.


Lancashire 77-1 beat Leicestershire 131-3 by 9 wickets via Duckworth Lewis Method

All over at Old Trafford after a couple of rain breaks and some revised targets.

Lancashire get home in the end with five balls to spare after they were given just 34 balls to score 63 runs.

Jos Buttler (20 not out) and Jordan Clark (31 not out) got them there in devastating fashion.


Essex 156-8 lost to Middlesex 173-8 by 17 runs

Essex fall short in pursuit of 174 despite Ryan ten Doeschate's (58 not out) best efforts.

Middlesex claimed early wickets in the home side's innings and Eoin Morgan's unbeaten 59, which included 22 off the final over, went a long way to securing their victory.

A third defeat in four games for Essex and a second win in three for Middlesex.


Sussex 143-6 beat Kent 140 by 4 wickets

Sussex get over the line at Hove, but boy did they make hard work of it!

With eight needed off the last over, David Wiese smashes David Griffiths over extra cover for four before finishing the game with a late cut to the third-man boundary.


Birmingham v Yorkshire - abandoned no play, rain

It's still raining at Edgbaston, so the match between Birmingham Bears and Yorkshire Vikings is abandoned without a ball being bowled.

There's some small consolation for the visitors, as the weather hands them their first point of this year's T20 Blast.


Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire - abandoned no play, rain

It's the only option the umpires had really, with heavy rain having fallen for the last few hours and continuing to come down in Nottingham. Both teams earn one point.

Surrey 188/5 (20/20 ov)
Hampshire 108 (16.3/20 ov)
Surrey won by 80 runs

Dominic Sibley starred with bat and ball as Surrey moved to the top of the NatWest T20 Blast South Group by thrashing Hampshire by 80 runs at a packed Kia Oval.

Sibley, a 20-year-old making his T20 debut, took 2 for 33 after scoring a fine 67 in a second-wicket stand of 114 in 10 overs with Kumar Sangakkara, whose 72 off only 35 balls featured two sixes, nine fours and a balmy evening's most memorable strokeplay.

Surrey's 188 for 5 proved too much for Hampshire, who were already struggling at 38 for 4 after the initial six-over powerplay and eventually subsided to 108 all out. Zafar Ansari hastened Hampshire's demise by dismissing Will Smith and Darren Sammy in successive balls at the end of the ninth over.

There was no Shahid Afridi for Hampshire, either, with the Pakistan T20 specialist pulling out of the game through illness. Surrey, though, hardly needed any contribution from their own second overseas player, West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo, who was making his debut for the club and only delivered four balls right at the end of the game - one of them a no-ball bouncer.

It was Surrey's third win in four group games but, for Hampshire, it was a fourth defeat from five matches and quarter-final qualification already looks a difficult task for them as they bid for a record seventh successive appearance at Finals Day.

Despite this match starting soon after the opening day's play between England and Sri Lanka ended at Lord's, six miles to the north across the Thames, a crowd of almost 17,000 turned up - with a few spectators no doubt managing to attend the two matches. Either way, the fact that around 45,000 people watched international and county cricket in London on the same day proves the continuing popularity of the game at both levels.

Jimmy Adams uppercut the third ball of Hampshire's reply for six over backward point but dragged Sam Curran's next ball on to his stumps and Adam Wheater departed for 8 when he was bowled trying to make room to hit a leg break from Sibley square on the offside.

Sibley had figures of 2-0-9-1 after bowling the second and fourth overs, and both the fifth and sixth overs brought further Hampshire wickets as Sean Ervine edged a drive behind off Ravi Rampaul and Liam Dawson was also out for 1, bowled as he heaved at Tom Curran.

Ansari reduced Hampshire to 52 for 6 by having Smith held in the deep and Sammy caught by keeper Ben Foakes for a first ball duck, and when Sibley returned to the attack he had Lewis McManus caught at deep square leg for 41 one ball after being struck for six.

After that, there were some defiant blows from Gareth Andrew in a 22-ball 31, ended by an athletic leaping boundary catch by Bravo, celebrated by an impromptu jig facing that section of the crowd, before Bravo followed that up by having Ryan Stevenson caught behind with his second ball and last man Tino Best held at mid off from his fourth ball.

Jason Roy fell for 9 in the fourth over of the game, caught at mid-off from a leading edge as he aimed something violent at Sammy's medium pace.

Surrey's innings was soon galloping along, however, as Sangakkara and Sibley matched each other stroke for stroke until the great Sri Lankan surged ahead to reach his half-century first from a mere 24 balls.

Sibley soon followed his partner to the landmark, from 35 balls, and his fifty included sixes flicked over mid-wicket off an Andrew over costing 16 and lofted straight against Dawson's left-arm spin.

Sangakkara, who earlier clubbed Smith's off-breaks for six, slog-swept Sammy for his second maximum before, later in the same 14th over, mis-hitting to long on.

Bravo edged Stevenson to the keeper after making only 3, and Sibley's fine innings ended in the 17th over when he was held on the ropes attempting to swing fast bowler Best beyond the mid-wicket boundary.

Tom Curran fell cheaply to Stevenson, but the seamer - also making his T20 debut - conceded two legside sixes in the 20th over with Ansari clearing long on and Rory Burns producing a superb pick-up over mid-wicket as 16 runs came from the final six balls of the innings.


Hampshire's players wore black armbands in memory of Hamza Ali, who made a first-class appearance for the county earlier this season and who has tragically drowned at the age of 20.