Melissa Story
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Will Smeed really is the key batter for Somerset.

They have power hitting to come but he's got to anchor this chase from a Somerset perspective.

Good stuff from South African spinner Bjorn Fortuin, conceding two runs from his first four balls, but Will Smeed makes room to whip him back down the ground to long-on for four and then picks up a useful two with a carve to deep point from the final ball.

Eight off the over in the end. This is getting mighty interesting...

James Fuller serves up Will Smeed a low full toss on leg stump which he gleefully accepts, clipping away for four runs to move to 33* from 23 deliveries.

Fuller responds with a dot ball then a shorter one which is pulled just shy of the deep mid-wicket fielder for a single.

James Rew swivels to pull another short one past the diving fielder at long leg to move to 13* from five balls but gets lucky with one which drops safely between to fielders in the off-side from the final ball.

Again it's 11 off the over. Somerset are keeping up with the rate, you know...

Smeed has 34* with Rew 15* from seven.

Bjorn Fortuin is coming into the attack.

BENNY Howell and BJORN Fortuin in the same attack... ABBA fans will love it.

And the winner takes it all tonight...

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Phew! Glad to hear that Hawky is safe and hasn't got lost down Broad Street in the city centre.

Benny Howell continues to smother the batters, allowing three singles in four balls.

However, James Rew lofts the ball through vacant mid-wicket for a precious boundary and then gets another as Ali Orr slides into the ball near the rope and deflects it with his knee like a celebrating footballer.

11 off the over. James Fuller will return.

James Rew misses the final ball from James Fuller.

Hampshire will feel they have taken a big stride in the past few minutes with Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Tom Abell sent packing.

Much rests on the shoulders of Will Smeed who is 26* from 19, with James Rew going to need to stick with him for a while. Sean Dickson, in his final T20 appearance for Somerset, might have his eyes on the headlines too, of course.

Benny Howell will take over the bowling. The momentum is with them.

Mark Davis
Former Somerset seamer on BBC Radio Somerset

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Tom Abell looked good in the semis, he got a good 20-odd but 20-odds are not going to win you titles and he's gone for a duck.

That is a big blow. Two wickets in quick time as well.

The top three had to produce here. Two haven't, Will Smeed is still going.

James Rew has had a pretty quiet quarters and semi, maybe this is the time he can step up? He's capable, he's a very talented young man.

Daniel Norcross
Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

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Tom Kohler-Cadmore cleaned up by Sonny Baker with an 88mph yorker and Hampshire have got their breakthrough and one it increasingly started to feel that they needed.

Really good sharp bit of bowling from Baker.

Five runs and the wicket of Tom Kohler-Cadmore. Sonny Baker's had worse overs.

Good recovery after a hair-raising start.

James Fuller will bowl the final over of the powerplay.

Will Smeed has 18* from 15 balls with Tom Abell nought from one.

Kevan James
BBC Radio Solent commentator

That's a great over from Scott Currie. Straight away it's just broken up the momentum.

It's exactly what you need.

Scott Currie has been tossed the ball, having had success against Somerset already this season.

TKC welcomes him with a glorious late uppercut which flies over the rope at backward point for six. He's seeing it like a beachball today.

Currie responds by mixing up his speeds and lengths but TKC moves to 19* from eight balls with a couple past mid-wicket before two dot balls.

10 off the fourth over. Sonny Baker will take the next.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

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That was a massive six. That went onto the roof of the Hollies Stand.

That was the biggest hit of the day from Tom Kohler-Cadmore.

New ball please, new ball.

When he hits it, it does stay hit.

Gary Smee
BBC Sport at Edgbaston

Got to love a six that goes out the ground.

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Somerset 31-0 - target 195 to beat Hampshire

Wild slash from TKC as he swings for the rope but slashes over the back-pedalling fielder at short third to run a couple.

The next ball IS hit OVER THE HOLLIES. Wowee. Short from Chris Wood and picked perfectly by TKC and deposited over the mid-wicket rope, about 100 feet above it.

New balls please.

A more sedate single brings Will Smeed back onto strike to smash a one-bounce four back past Wood, to be fielded nicely by a steward.

Big swing and a miss from Smeed from ball five and then a dot to finish.

13 runs off the over. Somerset's openers are doing their bit to build a platform.

Somerset fans, can you help?

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

A decent start but not an explosive start.

Somerset need to be up somewhere close to where Hampshire were at the end of their powerplay.