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We have our first two T20 Blast quarter-finalists with Birmingham Bears and Somerset securing their places in the knockout phase of the competition.

The Bears beat Worcestershire Rapids by 53 runs and Somerset made it 10 wins out of 12 by edging home with three balls to spare against Gloucestershire.

Innings of the night was played by Kent's Daniel Bell-Drummond, who hit 111 off 58 balls as the Spitfires brought Middlesex back down to earth following their record chase against Surrey 24 hours earlier.

Meanwhile, Jos Buttler passed 10,000 runs in T20 games with 83 off 39 balls as Lancashire defeated Derbyshire.

We'll be back with you on Sunday for coverage of nine County Championship fixtures. Thanks for your company this evening.

Worcester: Worcestershire Rapids v Durham (17:30)

Trent Bridge: Notts Outlaws v Birmingham Bears

Canterbury: Kent Spitfires v Sussex Sharks

The Oval: Surrey v Somerset

Derby: Derbyshire Falcons v Leicestershire Foxes (19:00)

Old Trafford: Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire Vikings (19:00)

Chelmsford: Essex v Middlesex (19:00)

Ageas Bowl: Hampshire Hawks v Glamorgan (19:00)

Birmingham Bears remain top of North Group with 18 points, four clear of Lancashire Lightning, who jump two places to second because of their superior net run rate over Worcestershire Rapids and Notts Outlaws.

They look the most likely to fill the three other quarter-final places as Yorkshire and Northamptonshire only have one game left - both against Lancashire.

Somerset have 20 points in South Group, with Surrey - who did not play this evening - remaining second on 16 following Hampshire's last over victory against Essex.

The Hawks move up to third on 14 points, the same total as Kent and Essex, who are four clear of the rest.

Durham v Yorkshire Vikings 49-1

Match abandoned because of rain - no result

Lancashire Lightning 177-4 v Derbyshire Falcons 150-7

Lancashire won by 27 runs

Leicestershire Foxes 118 v Northamptonshire Steelbacks 210-7

Northamptonshire won by 92 runs

Birmingham Bears 228-4 v Worcestershire Rapids 175-9

Birmingham Bears won by 53 runs

Glamorgan 162-8 v Sussex Sharks 182-6

Sussex won by 20 runs

Kent Spitfires 228-3 v Middlesex 173

Kent won by 55 runs

Somerset 187-6 v Gloucestershire 186-8

Somerset won by four wickets

Hampshire Hawks 212-6 v Essex 209-7

Hampshire won by four wickets

Lancashire ease home with the ball, but the work was done by Jos Buttler.

His fireworks with the bat illuminated this match. His 83 off 38 balls set up a target that Derbyshire never looked like getting.

The sixes count tells the story - Lancashire 12 Derbyshire 2.

A big win for the Red Rose as they move up to second on net run rate ahead of Worcestershire and Notts.

Derbyshire drop to seventh and their hopes of a top-four spot are hanging by a thread.

Luke Wood to bowl the penultimate over.

Alex Thomson scores two off the first and is then caught of the next. But it's too high and called a no-ball!

They cross for a single and Brooke Guest smashes the free hit for the first six of the innings!

He follows it up by finding successive fours - one at third man and the next through midwicket.

Wood responds with a dot to quell the mini onslaught.

Yet Guest smashes the last ball straight down the ground for a one-bounce four.

It's 23 off the over. Derbyshire's best of the innings.

Lancashire continue with spin with Tom Hartley.

Rob Jones almost has a second spectacular catch in two overs but he can't quite grab Alex Thomson and the ball drops over him for four.

13 off the over, but Derbyshire need a lot more than that!

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Daniel Sams with an almost-impossible task.

Benny Howell takes a single and then Liam Dawson strikes the winning boundary!

What a chase from Hampshire.

James Vince's 76 in 42 gave them hope but he couldn't do it all himself.

His namesake Fuller played a even better knock with 57 from 29.

And Howell has finished it off, making 34 from 18.

Hampshire right back in the thick of the qualification picture with two games remaining.

Essex right there too but need at least a win from their final two.

Emily Windsor
Oval Invincibles batter on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

Just as you think the game is going in one direction, another curveball is thrown at us.

Ben Allison with the penultimate over.

Benny Howell finds the fence first ball and then takes a single.

James Fuller takes two to go to fifty in 27 balls.

And then lifts his third six!

But goes next ball for 57! Great hitting in 29 balls.

Liam Dawson the new man.

AND SEND HIS FIRST BALL OUT OF THE PARK!

Incredible stuff.

A boundary each from Harry Came and Brooke Guest from Luke Wells' over.

They are not giving this one up.

But Derbyshire have just not hit anywhere near the same number of sixes as Lancashire did.

Can Daniel Sams settle Essex?

Single, single, wide and then James Fuller finds a boundary.

Two to finish the over and Essex will probably take that.

Liam Livingstone's overs are good for timekeeping!

Again he rattles through his six balls and does an excellent job for his team.

A dot, three singles and two twos is very tidy from a Lancashire perspective.

That is welcome for Derbyshire as Luke Wells sends down five wides.

Harry Came clubs the last delivery down to cow corner for four more to get 15 off the over.

They require 102 from seven overs.

Emily Windsor
Oval Invincibles batter on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

That's got Hampshire right back in the game. Really impressive over from Benny Howell.

Simon Harmer's final over.

Benny Howell...

4, 6, 4!

Boundary from the last ball too.

20 from the over and the big set that Hampshire needed.