Summary

  • Somerset beat Lancashire Lightning by seven wickets

  • Tom Abell's 78 not out helps hosts to victory with 10 balls to spare

  • Lancashire had made 184-9 from their 20 overs

  • Somerset join Sussex Sharks and Hampshire Hawks at Finals Day on 18 September at Edgbaston

  • Kent Spitfires meet Birmingham Bears in last quarter-final on Friday

Live Reporting

Alex Winter and Adam Williams

  1. 50 runs

    for Tom Abell

    Somerset 115-3 - target 185

    AbellRex Features

    Luke Wells going flat outside off and then fires one in to the blockhole.

    Three dots to open up the 14th.

    Single to deep cover gets Tom Abell back on strike.

    Surely has to go again?

    And he does, conventional sweep for four to raise fifty in 32 balls.

  2. Somerset 110-3

    Need 75 from 42 balls

    A good scramble brings an early two - when a better throw from deep square may have ran Tom Lammonby out.

    Then Tom Abell gets his reverse sweep out again and once more times it to perfection.

    Change the field lads?

    No-one back here either as Abell takes one over extra-cover again, this time for four. So lovely to watch that stroke.

  3. Mark Davis
    Former Somerset seam bowler

    Tom Lammonby needs to increase his tempo a bit. He can't leave it all up to Tom Abell in this chase.

  4. Somerset 97-3

    Need 88 from 48 balls

    Liam Livingstone is back with whatever spin he fancies.

    Two singles and a dot.

    Tom Abell tries to sweep but only a single more to deep square.

    But then goes up and over extra-cover all the way for six!

    Lovely piece of batting just when the pressure was cranking up.

  5. Somerset 87-3

    Need 98 from 54 balls

    Tom Lammonby is the new man and touches Danny Lamb for two to get off the mark into the on side.

    An excellent 12 balls for Lancashire and now the asking rate up at almost 11s.

  6. Mark Davis
    Former Somerset seam bowler

    Good piece of bowling, brilliant slower ball. It looked a really tame dismissal in real time, but it's huge in the context of the match.

  7. wicket

    WICKET Smeed c Bailey b Lamb 44

    Somerset 83-3 - target 185

    Big moment.

    Slower ball from Danny Lamb outside off.

    Will Smeed advances and is rather done in the flight and chips it to backward point.

  8. Somerset 83-2

    Target 185

    Another spinner now with Luke Wells' leggers.

    Pretty good stuff and only five singles and a wide.

    Even at halfway?

  9. Somerset 77-2

    Target 185

    Tom Abell again on the reverse sweep and nails it once more.

    Somerset ticking very nicely with these regular boundaries.

  10. Mark Davis
    Former Somerset seam bowler

    Abell and SmeedRex Features

    Momentum back with Somerset after losing those two early wickets. They've regrouped and this pair are building a strong partnership.

  11. Somerset 69-2

    Target 185

    Liam Livingstone with his slow box of tricks.

    Tom Abell goes on the reverse and gets it away for four.

    Then Will Smeed is back and flicking firmly wide of long-on for four more.

  12. Somerset 56-2

    Target 185

    Here's some spin from Tom Hartley.

    Tom Abell nails a reverse-sweep to backward point and is almost caught - would have been a screamer.

    Then Dane Vilas wants a caught behind - nothing from the umpire.

    Tidy set.

  13. Mark Davis
    Former Somerset seam bowler

    Spin has got to be the way forward. Pace off the ball means you've got to put more energy into your shots. That's going to be the defining moment - how well Somerset play the spinners.

  14. Somerset 52-2

    Target 185

    Tom Abell with a classic cover drive get a boundary first ball.

    And then Will Smeed finishes the powerplay with a shimmy down and a smack over long-off.

    Somerset back on course.

  15. Mark Davis
    Former Somerset seam bowler

    Who's Liam Livingstone? This boy can hit a long ball and that's an incredible bit of timing to clear those flats.

  16. Somerset 37-2

    Target 185

    Slower ball from Tom Bailey that beats the bat.

    Then one that gets past Will Smeed's slug to leg and traps him in front surely?

    No says the umpire! Good call. Hawk-eye has it just slipping down.

    Smeed survives again and then advances to heave over midwicket for six. Great strike.

  17. Mark Davis
    Former Somerset seam bowler

    Very frustrating for the bowler when you get a big wicket like that and overstep. Will Smeed could really punish Lancashire now he's been given an extra life.

  18. Somerset 26-2

    Target 185

    Will Smeed takes advantage to pull for four.

    And then a tremendous save on the backward-point fence saves four more.

    Better over for Somerset and a huge, huge let off for Smeed.

  19. Somerset 18-2 - target 185

    The ball is rocketing off Will Smeed's bat so far.

    But he's picking out fielders again.

    Then he swings and is caught behind...but Gleeson has overstepped!

    Oh dear.

  20. Somerset 17-2 - target 185

    Richard Gleeson with a second over. Slip in.