Dramatic wins for Somerset and Surrey in T20 Blast

Chris Jordan needed three from the final ball to win, and hit Matt Parkinson for four

Somerset chased down 230 in the final over to maintain their 100% record in the T20 Blast on an astonishing night of South Group action when more than 1,200 runs were scored in three matches.

Last year's runners-up made it four wins from four as Sean Dickson's 76 and Lewis Gregory's unbeaten 58 from 23 deliveries helped them past Middlesex, for whom Max Holden and Ben Geddes had shared 131 from 63 balls in the biggest T20 total by an away side at Taunton of 229-5.

At the Oval, Chris Jordan produced a vintage display for Surrey, taking 4-10, his best figures in more than 300 club matches, and then hitting the final ball for four to earn a thrilling four-wicket win over Kent.

Elsewhere Will Smale's career-best 65 in Glamorgan's 220-6 helped them to a thumping win at Essex, who remain pointless at the foot of the table after five games.

Match scorecards

Hosts edge Taunton thriller

After being asked to bat first at Taunton, Stephen Eskinazi (17 from 12) and Kane Williamson (28 from 17) gave Middlesex a solid platform, reaching 52-2 from 34 balls, a platform which Holden and Geddes built upon.

The pair added 100 for the third wicket from the next 47 deliveries, with Geddes smashing five sixes in a 25-ball half-century and Holden following suit a little later from 30 balls, with five fours and one maximum.

Geddes eventually departed for a career-best 69 from 32 balls, trying for his eighth six, only to miscue Riley Meredith to Matt Henry at long-off.

Leus du Plooy followed from the next ball, caught in the deep but Ryan Higgins cracked the hat-trick ball to the deep square boundary.

Meredith got his revenge at the end of the 19th over, having Higgins caught behind for 11, to finish with 4-46.

Holden finished unbeaten on 87 from 47 balls, with a dozen fours and a six, while Jack Davies hit a six off Ben Green in the final over - Middlesex's 12th of the innings - as the visitors posted 229-5.

Somerset began positively but lost Will Smeed, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Tom Banton and it was 88-4 in the ninth over when Tom Abell slog-swept a boundary catch off Luke Hollman to depart for 24.

But Dickson, back from a broken finger, moved to a 24-ball half-century with a reverse-sweep for six off Zafar Gohar. Gregory was then caught off a Hollman no-ball as 18 came off the 13th over and the home side still had hope.

Dickson smashed Noah Cornwell for a straight six and Gregory rode his luck further when dropped on the boundary by Du Plooy off Gohar, hitting three sixes in the same over. After Dickson holed out to long-off for 76 from 38 balls to end a 104-run stand in nine overs, the Somerset skipper hit his fifth maximum to bring up a 21-ball half-century.

Ben Green was dropped by Du Plooy again off Tom Helm in the penultimate over before another Gregory six completed a remarkable victory.

Jordan and Roy shine for Surrey

Kent's Tawanda Muyeye and Daniel Bell-Drummond added 41 from the opening four overs before Bell-Drummond (19) miscued Jordan to Sam Curran.

With Zak Crawley recalled by England, Harry Finch came in at three but Kent were 77-1 at the halfway point as the bowlers took charge.

Kiwi left-arm spinner Mitch Santner ousted Muyeye (37) and Finch (19) in the space of three balls and Kent were 80-3 at the end of the 12th over before Joe Denly scooped a Dan Worrall slower ball for four to end a 50-ball spell without a Spitfires boundary.

Denly smashed Nathan Smith for back-to-back sixes while Jack Leaning added another two balls later as 20 came off the 16th over and Leaning brought up the 50 stand from 21 balls, but Denly edged Jordan behind to depart for 40 from 22 balls and Grant Stewart followed soon after as 36-year-old Jordan finished with 4-10 from four overs.

Leaning departed for 24 to a Sam Curran slower-ball but Tom Rogers rattled 18 off seven balls as Kent posted 171-7.

Australian pacemen Rogers and Wes Agar reduced the hosts to 12-2 in the third over but Roy and Sam Curran guided them to 83-2 at the midway point before Roy brought up a 26-ball half-century, his third in five matches.

Sam Curran (32) departed to end a 90-run stand with Roy in nine overs and three balls later, Roy was adjudged to have feathered an edge to the keeper for 56 from 30 deliveries, giving Agar his third scalp.

Tom Curran was run out and Kent stemmed the flow until the 15th over when Evans pulled Stewart for back-to-back sixes to leave his side needing 43 from the final five overs.

Leaning put down Evans on 24 and Evans found the ropes from back-to-back balls from Rogers in the penultimate over as the hosts needed nine off the final six balls.

With their seamers bowled out, and Denly unable to bowl, leg-spinner Matt Parkinson was given the last over and after six runs came off the first five balls, Jordan found the boundary at long on to clinch it, while Evans finished unbeaten with 46 off 29 balls.

Glamorgan's Smale hits career-best knock

A brilliant knock of 65 off 40 balls by Will Smale helped Glamorgan to their third win of the campaign against Essex at Chelmsford.

Kiran Carlson was caught inside the rope by Michael Pepper off Shane Snater slog-sweeping and Ben Kellaway drove Mohammad Amir straight to Sam Cook at point as the visitors were 60-2 at the end of the six-over powerplay.

A mix-up saw Amir and Adam Rossington allow Smale's top edge to drop between them in the second over and the opener made them pay with a flurry of boundaries to bring up a half-century from 29 balls with four fours and three sixes.

Matt Critchley eventually got Smale to hole out to the running Pepper on the rope after an 84-run stand in seven overs with Colin Ingram, who made 39 from 21 balls.

Dan Douthwaite and Chris Cooke (21) added 32 from 14 balls before Douthwaite brought 200 up with a straight six, his third, and finished unbeaten on 30 from 12 balls while Timm van der Gugten added two maximums of his own in a 10-ball unbeaten 21 as the visitors posted 220-6.

Rossington, Dean Elgar and Pepper departed early in the reply as Essex were 37-3 at the start of the fifth over.

Paul Walter and Jordan Cox gave their side hope, but Cox fell to a superb diving catch at long-on from Asa Tribe to depart for 31 from 16 balls and end a five-over 50-run stand, with Walter following him for 26 soon after, falling to Mason Crane.

Luc Benkenstein's career-best 62 from 32 balls, featuring four sixes and six fours, was to no avail with Crane the pick of the Glamorgan bowlers with 3-24 from his four overs as his side ran out winners by 40 runs to go level on points with second-placed Hampshire.

Friday's fixtures

North Group

Worcestershire v Lancashire (17:30 BST)

Northamptonshire v Durham (18:30 BST)

Nottinghamshire v Derbyshire (18:30 BST)

Yorkshire v Bears (18:30 BST)

South Group

Gloucestershire v Somerset (19:00 BST)

Hampshire v Middlesex (19:00 BST)

Sussex v Essex (19:00 BST)