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Chris Gayle blasted 92 off 59 balls as he led Somerset to a dramatic three-wicket win against Essex at Chelmsford.

The West Indian, who was making his debut in English T20 cricket, started slowly, scoring just five runs off his first 17 balls.

He then opened his shoulders to hit eight fours and six sixes before falling in the penultimate over and in the end, Somerset had to scramble a single off the final ball to win.

Earlier, Tom Westley (68) and Jesse Ryder (54) helped Essex to 176 all out in their 20 overs.

Read more about Gayle's incredible innings here.

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Dawid Malan and Paul Stirling's first-wicket stand of 187 set Middlesex on their way to victory at Hove.

A record T20 partnership for the county, it helped the visitors reach 221-2, with Malan finishing not out on 115.

Luke Wright hit 91 off 47 balls to give Sussex hope, before they lost five wickets for just four runs.

South African paceman Kyle Abbott (5-14) was on a hat-trick twice in the space of four overs as he finished the job for Middlesex.

Four wickets for Keaton Jennings helped Durham to victory by seven runs as Yorkshire suffered their first T20 Blast setback of the season.

Durham posted 182-4, with John Hastings taking 21 runs from Tim Bresnan's final over.

And despite 41 by captain Andrew Gale, the Vikings lost wickets at crucial times as they came up short on 176-8.

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Derbyshire's top-drawer opening pair of Hashim Amla and Tillakaratne Dilshan were the difference as they earned a comfortable win over Lancashire.

The visitors managed just 127-9 from their 20 overs, despite 41 by Alex Davies, as Wayne White took 3-21 and Tony Palladino 2-22.

Amla (51) and Dilshan (38) then put on 93 and despite losing a few late wickets, the hosts got home with 14 balls remaining.

Birmingham Bears beat Northants with four byes from the final delivery of the game to secure their second win of the season.

Richard Levi made 58 for the Steelbacks, but no other batsman passed 20 as they totalled 146-7 from their 20 overs.

It was not a big score, but despite Will Porterfield's unbeaten 55, the Bears still needed nine from the last over, bowled by Azharullah.

They drew level with one ball remaining and with wicketkeeper Adam Rossington up to the stumps the ball flew away to the boundary - a defeat for Northants which left them bottom of North Group.

Hampshire's bowlers restricted Glamorgan to just 127-7 at the Swalec Stadium as they secured their second win of the season.

Sean Ervine top scored with 49 and Will Smith made 30 to help the visitors to 148-8 after they had been 39-4.

Chris Wood then produced T20 career-best figures of 4-16 to undermine the Glamorgan run-chase.

Captain Jacques Rudolph made 38, but fell straight after a rain interruption and when Mark Wallace was dismissed by Yasir Arafat, playing his 200th T20 match, the game slipped away from the Welsh county.

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Daryl Mitchell's half century and a quickfire 26 not out from Ross Whiteley guided Worcestershire to a convincing win against Leicestershire at New Road.

A number of batsmen got starts for the Foxes, but wickets tumbled throughout their innings as they could only muster 147-6.

Worcestershire were wobbling when Colin Munro was dismissed to leave them 59-3, but Mitchell's 58 followed by Whiteley's big-hitting finished the game in style.

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Brilliant batting by Sam Northeast enabled Kent to bounce back positively from Thursday's defeat at Middlesex with victory over Surrey.

Northeast's 96 came from just 47 balls and included seven sixes, but he was starved of the strike in the final few overs.

Surrey's reply started disastrously when they lost two early wickets in the first over, but Moises Henriques kept them in with a chance.

The Australian all-rounder made 63 runs but once he departed, Surrey were unable to find the boundaries they nedeed.

Before we wrap up our coverage, let's just take a look back at our eight matches in tonight's T20 Blast programme, which were all played to a finish despite today's dodgy weather in parts of the country.

Somerset director of cricket Matthew Maynard:, external "Welcome to @SomersetCCC @henrygayle Decent debut that!! #wearesomerset #blackbird #WorldBoss"

"To get 148 after being 20-3 was a great effort with the wicket deteriorating.

"We managed to get a score somehow and defended it unbelievably well.

"I've struggled a bit in the first two games so it's nice to put in a match-winning performance. Obviously it's a format that I love and I back myself a hundred per cent."

"It's always going to be a tough ask whenever someone scores over 200 - you've got to bat really really well.

"It was nice to give the crowd a game and put up a fight, but there are things to improve on with the ball.

"Credit to them, they batted really well, but we would have liked to have shut them down a little bit better than we did. But sometimes you've just got to say well played."

"(Chris) Gayle bided his time very nicely. He was slow at the start and we thought we were on top of him but then his class came through.

"It was a great game of cricket and it's one that we're all very proud to be a part of.

"It was a really gritty and dirty game and your passion comes out. More often than not, the side that normally wants it the most comes out on top."

Somerset all-rounder Peter Trego:, external "O.M.Gayle..... #Boss"

"It was a very good game of T20 cricket. We were probably 20 runs short and their two best bowlers knocked us back a bit after the powerplay.

"We put a great effort in to defend it, but this game is about small margins.

"If every game ended like that, you'd be a happy spectator, but I'm beginning to think here that if you score 160 on this ground, you'll win more than you lose."

Test Match Special's Ebony Rainford-Brent:, external Gayle what a legend! 92! Asked if he got in the nets to prepare - "No ... But I did a bit of mental training!"

"The fact that we lost three wickets for the first 10 runs put us a bit behind the eight-ball.

"We still needed just over 90 runs in the last 60 balls with wickets in hand, and you should potentially back yourself.

"I think we lost a little bit of momentum when the rain came, but it is not an excuse. We got to be a little bit hard on ourselves."

"We started slow and never got anything going. We had no momentum and it wasn't a great batting performance and the score was always going to be under-par."

"We sort of let ourselves down. We went away from the game plan and we know, when we play the game plan, it works.

"It's slightly disappointing, but if you do stray away from it, you know the result you're going to get and we weren't on the right side of it tonight.

"I was just a little bit disappointed in those moments when we strayed away from what has made us so good over the last couple of games.

"But we'll continually learn and hopefully, by the time we go out there next time, we'll get better."