for Cameron Bancroftpublished at 12 overs

12 overs

Somerset 124 v Glos 102-0

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Roelof van der Merwe changes ends.

Somerset are running out of hats to try and pull a rabbit from.

Cam Bancroft drives through point for two before a back-foot punch brings two more.

He then gives himself room to drive up and over cover for four! Class.

And even more to end the over and he drives up and wide of long-off for four more!

Fifty for Bancroft in 39 balls with five fours and two sixes.

Hundred up.

Ed Seabourne
BBC Radio Bristol

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The first ball that he ever faced at Lord's will be a moment he will always remember. He got smashed in the box so hard he will never forget.

Apparently he was then seen shopping around for another box!

Now he is hit in the box again having just been hit on the foot.

Craig Overton is back.

Miles Hammond took a whack on the back leg in the previous over.

He now takes one in a much more painful spot! Ouch.

But he gets up to silkily stroke a cover drive past the sweeper for four!

Three singles end the over.

Just 35 needed.

Single to end an eventful 10th over.

And the champagne is on ice throughout The Shire!

Just 43 from 60 balls needed.

Ed Seabourne
BBC Radio Bristol

Miles Hammond, Cam Bancroft, James Bracey etc have not missed a game, they cannot afford to have multiple different players play in different formats.

It has been a long old season, but they will not feel it if they win this one.

Prize money, whilst I am sure none of them would mention, might be the most important thing from a strictly hard-headed club point or view.

Bancroft responds with a fabulous extra-cover drive for four! Smoked off just full of a length. Best stroke of the game - if not the night.

He then pulls for one.

Then a miscommunication and a run out review!

But a full-length dive saves Bancroft again!

He was sent back but a slide into the non-striker's end sees him home.

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Ben Green is into the attack. Just 4.45 an over needed.

LBW given against Cam Bancroft! Reviewed.

Is it too high?

Yes it is! Bouncing over.

Bancroft was a long way across his stumps - probably why the finger went up - but survives.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

Tom Abell is walking off the pitch with physio Jamie Thorpe and that is a really worrying sign.

Things going from bad to dreadful here, let us just hope it is not his hamstring.

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Big slog sweep from Miles Hammond to begin the ninth.

He gets a lot of it and enough to clear long-on tonight with these boundaries brought up.

Hammond then sweeps off leg stump and gets it backward of square for four more.

Another sweep brings a single to deep midwicket.

Dot and then a leg side dab for one to end the over from Cam Bancroft.

Total cruise for The Shire at the moment. The perfect first half to this chase so far.

Anthony Gibson
BBC Radio Somerset

Somerset were guilty of trying to force the pace on a slow pitch.

Tom Abell was not at his best today in either game, he never really got going when Somerset really needed (former) captain Tom.

But it was the other Tom (Banton) we really missed, he has been playing so wonderfully in both formats for Somerset, it is a huge void him not being here tonight.

Jake Ball into the attack. Somerset need wickets and quickly.

But instead, Miles Hammond plays a superbly-timed pull way back over deep square and into the crowd!

Successive leg byes follow before a slower ball is check-driven to mid-off.

Pace back on and nudged leg side for another single.

Cam Bancroft then flicks a drive down the ground and Tom Abell tears around from long-on to keep it to two.

Abell has tweaked something there and heads off to the dressing room.

Mark Davis
Former Somerset seamer on BBC Radio Somerset

He looked like he was taking the mick there, Miles Hammond really getting his front foot forward in that defensive shot.

This game is gone.

Just playing for pride now are the defending champions, they do not want to lose by 10 wickets, at least take a few with them.

Roelof van der Merwe's left-arm spin into the attack.

Glos can afford just to milk the runs from here - needing under a run-a-ball to win.

Singles down the ground and to deep square begins the over before Cam Bancroft misses with a sweep but is outside off.

He then punches to deep cover for one.

Miles Hammond plays a perfect forward defence and ends the over with a sweep for one.

Ed Seabourne
BBC Radio Bristol

Unusually, today Bancroft was initially the aggressor, but then Hammond coming good with those boundaries in that last over of the powerplay.

Lewis Gregory brings himself on to close out the powerplay.

Can he change the game again?

He loses his line and Bancroft turns it away wide of long leg for four.

An inside edge via the pad brings a single more in front of short-third man.

Miles Hammond then mistimes a drive to mid-on before missing a pull down leg that's called wide.

But he finds his touch again - stepping to leg and taking a full delivery over extra-cover for four. Perfect timing.

He gives himself room again and times another beauty, this time along the ground past mid-off.

What a powerplay for the Glos. In complete control.

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Ian Randall
BBC Gloucestershire Sport

Gregory is not happy about that, he clearly felt that that was tight enough to Hammond, he felt there was some pad on that.

In some competitions around the world you can review wides that you disagree with, but not in the Blast.

Harry Everett
BBC Sport from Edgbaston

I thought I would be generous in the very brief interval between innings, so got a round of sausage rolls in for our BBC county commentators who do not get a break at all from the first to the last ball of a T20 match.

The Somerset pair both gratefully snaffled up my offerings, whilst neither Gloucestershire caller was even remotely interested...

The signs of one pair who have seen victory here before accepting that their day's work is nearly done and taking on some fuel for the journey home, whilst the latter are too nervous/happy to wait to feast alongside their Bristolian champagne shortly?

A third over for Craig Overton.

And Miles Hammond finally gets one away with a sweet pick-up over mid-on for four. First boundary.

Then a very sharp single into the covers and Tom Abell can't throw down the non-striker's stumps! Out with a hit.

Swing and a miss from Cam Bancroft aiming leg side - oh so close to leg stump - before a single in front of point.

More than 500 runs now for Bancroft this season.

Postpublished at 4 overs

4 overs

Somerset 124 v Glos 28-0

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Far from steady from Bancroft to begin the fourth over as he steps across his stumps and paddle sweeps a full delivery directly up and over the wicketkeeper for six more!

Slip comes out to cover. Bancroft charges, Josh Davey fires one way down leg. It's well saved by James Rew scrambling to his left but they get an additional extra.

Miles Hammond swings and misses leg side, an appeal is quickly turned down on height and they take a leg bye.

Two dots and a very sharp single to mid-on to end the over.

Mark Davis
Former Somerset seamer on BBC Radio Somerset

What the pros do really well is target the first ball of the over and they have done that really well, pushing the pressure straight back on the bowler.

The bowlers have not looked like taking a wicket, neither Josh Davey nor Craig Overton have looked like taking a wicket so far, Lewis Gregory will have to ring the changes soon.

Gloucestershire are on their way to their first T20 Blast title.

Somerset's prospects are now as black as the sky over Edgbaston.