Essex beat Worcestershire by four wickets off final ball
Eagles win T20 Blast for first time in their history
Captain Harmer hits winning runs after taking 3-16
Essex beat Derbyshire by 34 runs in second semi-final
Worcestershire beat Notts by one run in first semi
It's heartbreak for Worcestershire who looked set to claim back-to-back titles with 23 needed off the final two overs.
But it wasn't to be as Ravi Bopara and Simon Harmer kept their nerve to take Essex to victory.
Essex (148-6) beat Worcestershire (145-9) by four wickets
Simon Harmer guides Wayne Parnell through point for four and takes Essex to victory!
What a game for the Essex skipper who finishes 18 not out after taking three wickets.
It's a maiden T20 Blast title for the Eagles as the fireworks light up the pitch black Edgbaston sky.
Two needed off one ball
David Bradley
BBC Hereford and Worcester cricket commentator
What a day of cricket we've had!
What a summer!
Two needed off one ball
FOUR! SIMON HARMER!
Straight down the ground with power.
Essex need two off the final ball, but really only require one because a tied game is theirs.
Wayne Parnell is distraught.
Six needed off two balls
Two more! Simon Harmer drops it into the leg side, the bowler Wayne Parnell runs after it, but Essex get back for a second.
Eight needed off three balls
Simon Harmer squirts one into the leg side. Two. He stays on strike.
If the scores are equal, Essex will win on losing less wickets.
10 needed from four balls
Ravi Bopara pulls Wayne Parnell away - it's only a single.
11 needed off five balls
Paul Newton
BBC Essex sport
One thing you have to be able to do on these chases is keep your heads. You'd back Bopara to do so and you'd certainly back Harmer.
11 needed off five balls
Simon Harmer plays Wayne Parnell down the ground for a single to put Ravi Bopara on strike.
12 needed off six balls
Simon Harmer can only get a single to deep cover off the final ball of Pat Brown's over.
He'll be on strike for the last one. 12 needed. Wow.
13 needed off seven balls
Simon Harmer hits his first ball straight back down the ground and it's four!
What timing from the Essex skipper.
Essex 129-6 (17 needed off eight balls)
Played on!
Paul Walter tries to swipe Pat Brown away but gets an inside edge onto his pads and then onto the stumps.
Simon Harmer comes in with 17 needed off the last eight balls. Talk about tension.
17 needed off nine balls
Boshed down the ground by Paul Walter. Four!
21 needed off 10 balls
Ravi Bopara absolutely nails a short one from Pat Brown but it's straight to the fielder on the leg-side boundary.
Just a single.
22 needed off 11 balls
Single off the first ball. Ravi Bopara is back on strike.
23 needed off 12 balls
Ravi Bopara finally gets on strike and scampers two off the last ball.
Was that wise? It means Paul Walter will be on strike for Pat Brown's penultimate over.
26 needed from 14 balls
Paul Walter can't get Wayne Parnell away.
The Essex all-rounder is really struggling out there.
30 needed off 18 balls
Good comeback from Pat Brown after he was spanked for six second ball.
Just three more singles come off the over.
Essex need 30 from the final three.
Essex 113-5 (33 needed off 22 balls)
Six more! Pat Brown drops short and Ravi Bopara pumps him flat over the rope. Great shot.
39 needed from 24 balls
Moeen Ali finishes his four-over spell. 2-22 for the Rapids skipper.
This is going down to the wire.