Vitality T20 Blast

Thursday's game

Middlesex 165-8 (20 overs): Stirling 60
Hampshire 143 (18.5 overs): Munro 58; Agar 3-17, Finn 3-21
Middlesex won by 22 runs

Middlesex recorded their second win in the T20 Blast as a great fightback with the ball helped them beat Hampshire by 22 runs.

The hosts posted 165-8, with Paul Stirling hitting 60 from 44 balls and Dwayne Bravo adding 20 off 11.

Hampshire were well set in the chase but Sam Northeast fell for 27 and Colin Munro 58 in quick succession as they slipped from 89-1 to 143 all out.

Australia spinner Ashton Agar took 3-17 and Steven Finn 3-21.

Middlesex's total looked a little short as Max Holden, John Simpson and Dwayne Bravo were all run out in Hampshire's slick fielding display.

Despite losing James Vince - caught and bowled to Finn - in the first over of their reply, Hampshire were cruising until left-arm spinner Ashton Agar turned the game.

Northeast was stumped and two overs later Munro and Rilee Russouw departed in consecutive balls as Agar recorded his best T20 figures.

Tom Helm dismissed Lewis McManus for a duck and former England seamer Finn struck twice in two balls.


Middlesex move up to seventh in the South Group, while Hampshire replace them at the bottom.


Friday round up

Adil Rashid took 1-19 to help Yorkshire win a rain-affected T20 Blast match with Birmingham Bears.

Rashid was controversially chosen for England's first Test against India, having signed a white-ball only contract with Yorkshire for 2018.

Yorkshire made 226-8 at Headingley and the Bears fell 31 runs short of their revised target of 208 from 18 overs.

Elsewhere, Martin Guptill struck a 35-ball century in Worcestershire's victory over Northants at Wantage Road.

The New Zealand opener's hundred was the second-fastest in England's domestic T20 competition and equalled the fourth-fastest in T20 history.

Chasing 188 for victory, Worcestershire were an astonishing 162-0 after 10 overs and eased to a nine-wicket win with 41 balls to spare.


Kent v Sussex was ended early by rain, but there were also wins for Derbyshire, Notts Outlaws, Gloucestershire and Surrey, who prevailed in a 10-overs-per-side match at The Oval.