Summary

  • Remaining three T20 Blast quarter-finals

  • Surrey defend 187-5 to beat Lancashire by 13 runs

  • Somerset beat Notts Outlaws by five wickets thanks to Gregory fifty

  • Hampshire beat Worcestershire by five wickets after bowling Rapids out for 100

  • Essex beat Birmingham Bears on Thursday to make Finals Day on 15 July

  1. wicket

    WICKET Evans b Livingstone 70published at 11.2 overs

    Lancs v Surrey 104-2

    Laurie Evans is gifted four from Liam Livingstone's first ball of the game as Steven Croft makes a hash of the fielding.

    But there's a vital breakthrough for the home side as Livingstone hustles one past Evans' attempt to pull and hits leg stump.

    The wicket ends a 72-run stand with Jason Roy.

  2. Postpublished at 19:13 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 100-1 (11 overs)

    Was that a caught and bowled? No, it was a bump ball and Laurie Evans survives.

    The Surrey total reaches 100 as Jason Roy powers a short ball down the ground for four. The next is almost his last as he tries an uncontrolled slog and inside edges into his pads.

    Roy is 21 not out and Laurie Evans has 66.

  3. wicket

    WICKET D'Oliveira b Turner 1published at 2 overs

    Hants v Worcs 10-2

    Hampshire strike again. Pears skipper Brett D'Oliveira this time.

    Paceman John Turner rearranges Dolly's stumps with the final ball of the second over.

    Bad start for Worcestershire.

    Hampshire celebrate taking wicketImage source, Getty Images
  4. Surrey reach halfway pointpublished at 19:10 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 93-1 (10 overs)

    Laurie EvansImage source, Getty Images

    Wayward from Daryl Mitchell and Jason Roy flicks it away fine for four.

    Lancashire need a find a way to combat the Laurie Evans ramp as the opener helps himself to another boundary to go to 64.

    The foundation is there for Surrey - how big a structure can they now place on top of it?

  5. 6 runs

    for Patelpublished at 19:10 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Somerset v Notts 59-3 (9 overs)

    Samit Patel and Matt Montgomery are trying to haul their side back into the game.

    Patel has just pulled Lewis Gregory over square leg for six and driven him very sweetly past extra-cover for four.

    But Somerset still very cosy at the moment.

  6. Postpublished at 19:06 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 81-1 (9 overs)

    Surrey are still trying to come to terms with Luke Wells.

    There is three to Laurie Evans but he has to settle for two from the final ball of the over as Jason Roy sends him back.

    Evans has 58 off 33 balls.

  7. wicket

    WICKET Haynes c & b Wood 0published at 0.4 overs

    Hampshire v Worcestershire 2-1

    Early strike for Hampshire as Jack Haynes returns a catch to Hampshire paceman Chris Wood.

    New man in is in-form Mitchell Santner.

  8. Postpublished at 19:04 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Hampshire v Worcestershire 2-0 (0.3 overs)

    Chris Wood sends down the first over of the night in Southampton as he opens to Worcestershire skipper Brett D'Oliveira, who is accompanied by Jack Haynes,

  9. 50 runs

    for Laurie Evanspublished at 19:01 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 73-1 (8 overs)

    Laurie Evans reaches his fourth 50 off the competition - and he also has a century to his credit - off 28 balls as Phil Salt fumbles the ball over the rope and concedes four runs.

    Jason Roy ends Tom Hartley's opening over with his first boundary. The run rate is over nine and Surrey will be aiming for a total well in excess of 200 here.

  10. Postpublished at 19:00 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 62-1 (7 overs)

    Time for spin from Luke Wells.

    He gets away with a couple of wayward deliveries and it's a good start by him - just four runs from it.

  11. Postpublished at 19:00 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Somerset v Notts 37-3 (6 overs)

    Samit Patel is often a man for a crisis and having passed a fitness test before this game is trying to revive Notts.

    A pull to midwicket for four gets Notts to 37-3 but he'll need to do a lot more to try and set a competitive total.

    Three down inside four overs, it's been a great start for Somerset having lost the toss.

  12. Postpublished at 18:57 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 58-1 (6 overs)

    Final over of the powerplay and Daryl Mitchell will bowl it.

    Laurie Evans is down the track and tries to swing it to leg a la Ben Stokes, but Mitchell has taken the pace off and he makes no contact.

    Nothing wrong with his ramp shot this evening, though, as he helps the next one over the keeper away for four.

    A miscue lands safely and he picks up a single before Jason Roy - who has yet to find his timing - adds one to point from the final delivery.

  13. Toss & team newspublished at 18:53 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Hampshire Hawks v Worcestershire Rapids (19:00 BST)

    Hampshire have won the toss and elected to bowl first. The hosts are without Aussie star Ben McDermott, who has suffered back spasms, so Nye Donald comes in for him.

    Worcestershire are unchanged from the side that won at Derby on Sunday to book their place in the last eight.

    There are six survivors from the only other previous T20 meetings between these two sides - when Hampshire beat the Pears at New Road in the quarter-final in 2015.

    Skipper James Vince, Liam Dawson and Chris Wood for Hampshire, as well as Ross Whiteley, who was playing that evening for Worcestershire - and visiting captain Brett D'Oliveira and wicketkeeper Ben Cox.

    Hampshire: Vince (capt), Donald (wk), Albert, Weatherley, Dawson, Fuller, Whiteley, Howell, Wood, Ellis, Turner

    Worcestershire: D'Oliveira (capt), Haynes, Santner, Hose, Kashif Ali, Cox (wk), Pollock, Usama Mir, Finch, Pennington, Brown

  14. 6 runs

    Postpublished at 18:52 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 50-1 (5 overs)

    Laurie Evans has passed 500 T20 runs for the season and he absolutely smashes Luke Wood over mid-wicket for his third six.

    Wood is guilty of a no-ball which Evans slices down to third man for four and then flays a free hit through cover for another boundary, which brings up Surrey's 50.

    Evans has 38 not out from 19 balls.

  15. wicket

    WICKET Clarke c Overton b Henry 2published at 3.4 overs

    Somerset v Notts 17-3

    Oh wow another one gone for Notts!

    Joe Clarke has a hack across the line and slaps Matt Henry straight to short midwicket.

  16. wicket

    WICKET Jacks c Wells b Bailey 8published at 4 overs

    Lancs v Surrey 32-1

    Surrey decide the preamble is over.

    Two audacious ramps by Laurie Evans bring him two maximums off Tom Bailey, forcing Lancashire to put a man out at fine leg.

    Will Jacks clearly wasn't watching closely enough as when he tries a similar shot at the end of the over, he diverts the ball straight to Luke Wells and is gone.

    Jason Roy is a handy number three, though.

  17. wicket

    WICKET Munro c Henry b Overton 10published at 2.4 overs

    Somerset v Notts 13-2

    Tight start from Notts but Colin Munro manages to open his arms at the start of the third over to swing Craig Overton for six over cow corner.

    But then he tries to take him down the ground and scoops it up and is really well caught by Matt Henry peddling backwards from mid-off.

  18. Worcestershire face tough night in Southamptonpublished at 18:44 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Hampshire Hawks v Worcestershire Rapids (19:00 BST)

    Worcestershire have possibly the most daunting task of all the T20 Blast quarter-finalists when they step out at the Ageas Bowl.

    In a week when they have learned of the loss of two of their brightest fast bowling talents Josh Tongue and Dillon Pennngton to Nottinghamshire, they come up against T20 holders Hampshire.

    The Hawks are looking to extend their record of Finals Day appearances jointly held with last year's beaten finalists Lancashire, from nine to 10. And, along with Leicestershire, they currently hold the record as the side who have lifted the T20 trophy the most (three times).

    James Vince and Ben Cox are among only a handful of survivors from the only  time Hampshire and Worcesterhire met in the T20 - in the quarter-final at New Road in August 2015Image source, Stu Forster - Getty Images
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    James Vince and Ben Cox are among only a handful of survivors from the only time Hampshire and Worcestershire met in the T20 - in the quarter-final at New Road in August 2015

    But they handled the pressure when they went to Derby last Sunday and won when they had to - to secure their place in the last eight

    And they will surely want to right the wrong and make amends from the one and only time these two sides have met previously in this competition - the quarter-final with Hampshire at New Road in 2015.

    In a game that probably should not have been played because of bad weather they did make a start, the light quickly faded at the only county first-class ground without floodlights - and, after just 8.1 overs of their innings, the indignant Pears lost on DLS.

  19. Postpublished at 18:43 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 15-0 (3 overs)

    Luke WoodImage source, Getty Images

    Will Jacks makes no contact with his first attempt at a ramp shot this evening. Luke Wood's next ball is a yorker which the Surrey opener jams down on and takes one to mid-off.

    Laurie Evans' bottom hand comes off the handle as he tries to pull the final delivery of the over, and it's only a single. Just three from it.

    Jacks sends for a new bat.

  20. Postpublished at 18:39 British Summer Time 7 July 2023

    Lancs v Surrey 12-0 (2 overs)

    Laurie Evans is almost cleaned up by Tom Bailey's opening delivery, which cuts back off the pitch, but an inside edge saves him.

    Decent over, no boundaries. Lancashire will be happy with that.