Matt Critchley in again and Tom Alsop launches it over mid-wicket for four.

Adam Rossington claims a stumping from the next delivery, but Alsop recovered his ground just in time.

Alsop targets mid-wicket again and Feroze Khushi is unable to hang onto a diving boundary catch - four more to the Sharks.

Sussex collect an overthrow as Dan Sams' throw ricochets off the stumps and strikes Rossington a painful blow. Treatment is needed.

One ball to come and Ravi Bopara rotates the strike. the required run rate for Sussex is 12.8 from here.

79 needed from the final four.

Nah.

Advantage Essex in that one as Aron Nijjar restricts Sussex to ones and twos. Tom Alsop is 27 not out, Ravi Bopara has eight and the Sharkes need another 89 to win.

Tom Alsop swings Simon Harmer away to mid-wicket, fielder feroze Khushi dives forward but doesn't make the catch and the ball trickles over the rope for four.

The next delivery is a full toss and Alsop reverse sweeps for four to take the total up to 150.

Liam Dawson goes for 11 but at this stage that just ups the asking rate to almost 19.

Alex Blake takes two sixes to end the over and Kent are staying above water for now with 19 from the 14th.

It still seems odd to see Ravi Bopara playing against Essex after so many years at Chelmsford.

But it's up to him and Tom Alsop now to keep this Sussex run-chase going.

Alsop is down the pitch to the final ball of the over and hammers it back past the bowler for four.

All over at Trent Bridge.

And in the end, it was all over in a hurry, with a big win for the Birmingham Bears.

Sam Hain hit an unbeaten 112 and Adam Hose 88 not out as the Bears posted a T20 Blast record 261-2 from their 20 overs.

Notts got their chase off to a flying start despite losing Alex Hales early, and 86 from Joe Clarke gave them a chance.

But Danny Briggs removed Tom Moores and Steven Mullaney in successive balls as the Outlaws slipped from 170-3 to 206 all out.

Kent are sliding to another heavy defeat here unless they can produce something spectacular.

Just the 17.7-an-over needed from here!

More fine bowling by Simon Harmer and there are no boundaries in that over. Two runs from the final ball take Mohammed Rizwan to 66 not out off 31 balls.

A comfortable win for Yorkshire too at Chester-le-Street, built on a stunning first-wicket stand of 105 off 50 balls between Adam Lyth (81) and Finn Allen (48).

Tom Kohler-Cadmore also hit 48 in Yorkshire's 201-5, a total that proved far too much for Durham as Jack Shutt took 4-35.

Ollie Robinson top scored for Durham with 44 in their 136-8.

West Country bragging rights go the way of Somerset after an ultimately comfortable enough seven-run win over Gloucestershire.

After being 1-1 after two overs, Somerset eeked their way to 184-6 thanks to an unbeaten 60 from Lewis Gregory and 54 from Rilee Roussouw.

A sixth-wicket stand of 62 between Ryan Higgins and Benny Howell gave Gloucestershire hope but ultimately needing 24 off the final over - and 14 off the last ball - proved too much.

Mohammed Rizwan drives over cover and it brings him four runs off Matt Critchley. Can he produce a big finish to the over? No, only a single down to long-on. Another 130 needed off 66 balls.

Is that game over? Olly Stone steams in and uproots Calvin Harrison's off stump to leave Notts Outlaws 185-7, needing 77 still to win in four overs to beat Birmingham Bears.

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Just four from the over by Simon Harmer. What a bowler he is.

for Mohammed Rizwanpublished at 7 overs

7 overs

Sussex 103-1 (target 245)

A single off Matt Critchley after hitting the previous one for six over mid-wicket takes Mohammed Rizwan to 50 from just 19 balls.

This is building up nicely at Chelmsford.