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Group A
Lancashire vs Surrey, Group A, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Surrey won by seven wickets
Lancashire 280-5 (Jones 67*, Jennings 64, Jones 60) v Surrey 285-3 (Thomas 82*, Sibley 65, Blake 59, Patel 58)
Lancashire 0pts, Surrey 4pts.
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Surrey got their Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign off to a magnificent start when they beat a relatively experienced Lancashire side by seven wickets in the incomparable, fell-ringed surroundings of Sedbergh School.
Having restricted Lancashire to 280-5 on a good wicket in a match played on a quick-scoring ground, Surrey mounted a determined pursuit of their target.
Dominic Sibley and Ryan Patel both made fifties but the game was decided by Adam Thomas and Josh Blake’s unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 126 in less than 13 overs. Thomas made 82 not out and Blake, who ended the match with a six off Balderson, finished undefeated on 59 as Surrey won with 14 balls to spare.
Surrey’s disciplined attack contained Lancashire’s batsmen in the first half of their innings and the home side were a modest 98 for two the midpoint of their 50-over innings.
By that time, they had lost Matty Hurst, bowled for two by the South African seamer Tiaan van Vuuren, and Josh Bohannon, brilliantly caught by Sibley running back and diving at deep midwicket off Yousef Majid for 40.
Bohannon put on 79 for the second wicket with Jennings but his departure foreshadowed an acceleration in the scoring rate. Marcus Harris joined the Lancashire skipper and they put on 78 in 13 overs before Jennings was caught and bowled off the leading edge by Patel for a 93-ball 64.
Having transformed the tempo of the innings, Harris was dismissed for 60 off 59 balls with seven fours and one six when he edged an attempted drive off Benji Floros to Blake. Lancashire’s other batsmen took their cue from the Australian, no one more so than Michael Jones, who put on an unbroken 57 off 30 balls with Arav Shetty and finished on 67 off 45 balls. The most impressive Surrey bowler was van Vuuren, who had taken one for 18 from six overs when he left the field with an injury.
The visitors began their reply impressively. The fifty came up in 12th over and the spinners put no brake on the rate. Sibley reached his fifty off 69 balls and Patel off nine balls fewer. But having reached the midpoint of their innings on 123 for one, Surrey lost a wicket to the next delivery when Patel was caught behind off George Balderson for 58.
Six overs later, Sibley was bowled for 65 when he tried to sweep Harry Singh in the off-spinner’s first over. Surrey skipper Rory Burns was then leg-before to Shetty for five but Thomas and Blake built their superb match-deciding partnership, which reached a climax when they took 45 runs off three overs bowled by Ollie Sutton, Charlie Barnard and Balderson. Curiously, no bowler in the match took more than one wicket.
Adam Thomas, Surrey batsman, said:
“It was an unbelievable game and a great way for us to get off the mark in this competition. We normally start this competition badly but for us to get off the mark as we did today is excellent.
“We had plenty of experience at the top of the order with Dom and Ryan and that just allowed us younger guys to express ourselves.
“The bowling in the first 25 overs set the tone for us. The way Tiaan and James bowled was excellent and they were backed up by Benji. They scored 98 off the first 25 overs and that was pretty good from us.
“I don’t think I’ve ever played at a ground with much better views than this.”
Lancashire captain, George Balderson, said:
“I think it was a nice toss to win.
“It felt like the feedback we were getting from our batters early doors was that it was hard work, it was seaming and bouncing, and whether we just didn’t bowl as well as they did early doors or whether the pitch got a little better, I’m not sure, but credit to their batters. They played well and we couldn’t break the partnerships when we needed to.
“We thought our score was around par. Maybe actually some of the lads who were out there early doors thought we were a little bit above par, but we knew that it’s a small ground and if someone gets in, they can score quite quickly.
“So, we knew we had a task on our hands and really we needed early wickets to make a dent into their experience at the top of the order.
“When we didn’t get that, we fought hard, but ultimately they came through.
“We’ve got to try and find a way to break their partnerships earlier than we did today.
“We all know that wickets win you games in one-day cricket and we didn’t manage to get them.
“We fought well and, like I say, either side of drinks, we squeezed well.
“Arav came on and bowled well, Singhy bowled well. We managed to squeeze a wicket or two, but we just didn’t do it for long enough.”
Northamptonshire vs Warwickshire, Group A, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Metro Bank One Day Cup: Warwickshire 312 for nine (50 overs) v Northamptonshire Steelbacks 314 for five (48.4 overs). Northamptonshire Steelbacks win by five wickets.
By Jeremy Blackmore, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Northamptonshire Steelbacks skipper Nathan McSweeney hit a commanding 88 to set up a five-wicket victory against Warwickshire in the Metro Bank Cup at Wantage Road.
Chasing 312 to win, McSweeney shared a fourth-wicket stand of 121 with George Bartlett who made a superb 72, his highest List A score for Northamptonshire. Meanwhile Ricardo Vasconcelos picked up where he left off in the Vitality Blast Final on Saturday with 64. Taz Ali took two for 52.
For Warwickshire, Sam Hain struck an excellent, well-timed 80 and combined in a 104-run partnership with Theo Wylie (65), who made his highest List A score. They came together after Rob Yates got the innings off to a flyer with an aggressive 39.
But an impressive Raphy Weatherall claimed four for 56 and with leg-spinner Yuzi Chahal and Liam Guthrie taking two wickets apiece, Warwickshire were unable to post the sizeable total that had looked likely.
Earlier Liam Guthrie struck early, finding movement to entice Vansh Jani to edge behind.
Yates struck seven boundaries, but his aggression ended when he upper-cut Weatherall to deep cover.
Hain came down the track to strike his first boundary through midwicket and smote a big six over long-on.
Wylie picked up the pace too, driving through the covers and down the ground. He offered a sharp caught-and-bowled chance on 48 but Chahal couldn’t hold on. Finally, he cut Weatherall hard to point where Aadi Sharma took a sharp catch.
Alex Davies (25) hit three consecutive boundaries off Weatherall, before lofting Chahal to Weatherall running back at mid-on.
Kai Smith (28) attacked the seamers and scooped Weatherall but went to repeat the shot and edged behind, the first of three wickets in nine balls. George Garton swung Chahal out to deep midwicket, where Vasconcelos took an excellent running catch, and Weatherall jagged one back to trap Hain lbw.
While Ethan Bamber skied Procter to mid-on and Jake Garlick was castled by Guthrie, Ali finished with a flourish down the ground.
Oliver Hannon-Dalby soon trapped Gus Miller lbw, but Rob Keogh (37) drove Bamber and Hannon-Dalby straight for three boundaries. He was brilliantly caught by Smith on the square-leg boundary, who threw the ball up before stepping back inside the rope.
Vasconcelos played a series of deft cuts, sweeps and ramps to move to his half-century before crunching Jake Garlick through the covers. He was timing the ball well, so it was against the run of play when he was run out by Garton.
McSweeney punched Garlick through cover and swung Bamber over square-leg before coming down the pitch to drive Yates through cover to reach 50.
Bartlett meanwhile struck Yates over mid-off and crashed him down the ground and cut Wylie through square-leg. He brought up the Steelbacks’ 200 runs with a sweep off Wylie before smashing Garlick over long-on for six.
With 73 needed off the final 10 overs, McSweeney struck Ali back over his head before chipping a tame return catch. Bartlett though responded with a huge six over midwicket off Garlick and pulled Hannon- Dalby for another maximum.
When he fell top-edging a sweep off Ali to deep midwicket, the Steelbacks needed 25 more but Aadi Sharma and Lewis McManus joined forces to take them home.
Warwickshire men’s head coach Ian Westwood said: “I think not our best performance really. I think we left a few out there with the bat from the start that we got, 70 for one off 10 overs.
“Just a bit passive through the middle there, hoping for a strong finish, which we never got. So, I thought we definitely left 40 or 50 runs out there, and, particularly at the moment, we’re a bit light on personnel with the ball.
“I thought young Garlick came in, bowled well and created some chances. We needed an extra seamer in there. Taz [Ali] bowled well, but it was really hard to defend with a lightning outfield and a good pitch. Once they got a partnership, it was just hard to stop.
“You’ve got a chance with 312 on the board. It seems like a lot of runs. It was short of what we felt we needed at the halfway stage. But if everything goes your way, you bowl as well as you can, you take all your chances and stop everything in the field, you can turn that into a match-winning score.
“We didn’t do that. We didn’t have our best day with the ball, probably, at the top there, and it was just hard to stop once good players got in and kept us under pressure and kept hitting boundaries.
“There were some good performances. Not all doom and gloom. But we wanted to start well in this competition. There are some good teams in the comp this year, and we weren’t miles off. But you don’t have to be. So yeah, some decent performances, but we need to do better.
“We go away to Notts next, again another good team. And every department needs to be a few percent better, and hopefully we get a better outcome.”
Nottinghamshire vs Somerset, Group A, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Metro Bank One-Day Cup – Men: Notts Outlaws 259-6 beat Somerset 258-9 by four wickets.
John Fretwell Sports Complex, Sookholme
By Jon Culley, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Notts Outlaws v Somerset, July 21, 2026
Metro Bank One-Day Cup, Group A
Match report
Notts Outlaws launched their Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign with a four-wicket victory over Somerset built around half-centuries from skipper Haseeb Hameed (66 off 79 balls) and Freddie McCann, whose 70 from 82 was a List A career-best, as they overhauled Somerset’s 258 for nine, reaching 259 for six with 32 balls to spare.
It was a 10th Notts win in 16 List A fixtures staged at the John Fretwell Sports Complex in the north of the county, home to Welbeck Cricket Club.
Somerset, semi-finalists in 2025, lost a wicket to the fifth delivery of the match as Brett Hutton had Archie Vaughan caught behind yet at 160 for two after 35 overs looked set for a total above 300. Ultimately, they lost their last six wickets for 27 before Migael Pretorius took four for 41 with the ball.
Tom Lammonby, who made two hundreds in this competition last year, began his campaign with nicely-crafted 92 from 109 balls and Savin Perera, a left-hander making his senior debut at 27, hit 58 from 84, but Somerset needed to make more of their 102-run partnership. Notts left-arm spinner Joe Pocklington picked up three for 28.
Perera is not short of experience. He has played Second XI cricket for 10 different counties including Nottinghamshire, making five hundreds at that level. He also has five against county opposition for the South Asian Cricket Academy, not to mention two on this ground in the Nottinghamshire Premier League.
His driving on the off side was pleasing on the eye, with eight boundaries, before off-spinner McCann dismissed him with a sharp return catch.
Lammonby built patiently, reaching 50 from 80 balls before pushing the accelerator. He was out searching for a 10th boundary, a pull shot finding a fielder behind square.
Josh Thomas (27 from 35), Johnny Connell, who marked his senior debut with 24 from 24, and Kian Roberts – later helped off after suffering an injury in the field – all met similar fates as they sought to up the scoring rate.
Pocklington, who had Connell caught at long-off, bowled Migael Pretorius and had Jack Leach comfortably stumped. Until 18-year-old wicketkeeper Ben Church, the third of Somerset’s trio of debutants, found the rope off the last ball of the innings, the last 10 overs yielded only one four.
Notts, who have suffered only three defeats on this ground, were 61 for one from 10 in reply. They lost Ben Slater (25 off 18) when he cut ex-Trent Bridge team-mate Jake Ball to backward point. Ball – once a Welbeck player – captained Somerset, with Lewis Goldsworthy ruled out by injury.
Dropped on 37 and 51, McCann reverse-swept Jack Leach for consecutive fours before a short delivery from Migael Pretorius saw him miscue to mid-off.
Pretorius induced a Notts wobble by removing Kyle Verreynne, the South African Test ‘keeper making his Notts List A debut, Hameed, who skyed on to mid-on, and Pocklington caught behind first ball.
Quotes
Notts Outlaws’ top-scorer Freddie McCann said:
“It’s good to get off and running in the first game, especially at home. It got a little bit tight towards the end but the way Lyndon James put the pressure back on them when it was getting a bit close was exceptional.
“I thought we bowled really well as a group today. Pock (Joe Pocklington) in particular, bowling five overs at the death, it’s probably not something he’s done before but when it looked at one stage like they would make 300 he was a big part of the reason we kept them down to the score they got.
“We know that the outfield is quick here and it can get away from you quite quickly but Legend (Brett Hutton) and James Hayes were on it from ball one, building pressure on the batters. We always felt 258 was a total we could chase.”
Somerset’s Jake Ball said:
“We were a little bit short with the bat. I think when it started to get a little bit close at the end, if we’d had 20 or 30 more runs we could have put a bit more pressure on than we did. But I’m pretty pleased with the way the bowlers kept going and for Migael to pick up four wickets was really important in that.
“Even though we didn’t get the result, to come here, to my old club and to be able to captain was something I will cherish for a long time.
“We’ll take a lot of learnings from this. I think Notts are going to be up there challenging to win this competition so it is a good marker for us. We’ve got a few new faces in the side, three guys making their debuts who all did well, especially Sav Perera, and we pushed them quite hard at the end. If we can just tighten up in a few areas and start to gel together as a team, there’s no reason why we can’t be up there at the back end of the competition as well.”
Group B
Derbyshire vs Durham, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Metro Bank One-Day Cup Derbyshire Falcons 256 for 9 lost to Durham 257 for 5 by five wickets.
Nigel Gardner, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.
A remarkable century from former England captain Ben Stokes took Durham to a dramatic five wicket Metro Bank One-Day Cup win over Derbyshire Falcons at the OurCoop County Ground.
In his first match since retiring from international cricket, Stokes scored an unbeaten 108 from 123 balls despite limping with a leg problem for much of his innings to take Durham to their 257 target.
Stokes also bowled nine overs, conceding only 38 runs, with Martin Andersson scoring 112 out of Derbyshire’s 256 for 9.
Durham slipped to 24 for 2 but Stokes was superb in guiding the visitors to 257 for 5 with five balls to spare.
The Stokes factor was reflected in a crowd of 1300, several hundred up on what Derbyshire would expect for a weekday One-Day Cup match at Derby.
The 35-year-old was warmly applauded when he came on to bowl after eight overs by which time Derbyshire had lost Harry Came to a full length ball from Luke Robinson.
Stokes almost struck with his first ball which Andersson nearly edged behind and his opening spell demanded respect with only 13 coming from five overs.
The pitch was not the easiest to score quickly on but Derbyshire built steadily with Andersson driving Kasey Aldridge for six on his way to a 58 ball 50.
The stand with Guest was worth 112 from 143 balls before Guest drove a low return catch to George Drissell in the 28th over.
Stokes came back but was twice driven down the ground by Andersson in a second spell of three overs which cost 19
Wayne Madsen put on 55 with Andersson before he missed a big swing at Robinson which saw the hosts implode.
Three wickets fell for six runs.with Ross Whiteley caught at deep square before Anuj Dal chipped Robinson to short midwicket to reduce the Falcons to 187 for 5.
Derbyshire’s hopes of a late surge vanished when they lost three wickets in the 46th over including Andersson and it was left to Ben Aitchison, who hit only the second six of the innings, to get the score past 250.
Aitchison then turned the pressure on Durham, removing both Graham Clark and Alex Lees to leave the visitors on 24 for 2 after nine overs.
That brought in Stokes who began watchfully, facing 28 balls before he hit his first four which was a testament to Derbyshire’s bowling.
Rhodes and Stokes had to earn all of their 74 run stand which ended when Rhodes played across Jack Morley in the 26th over.
Stokes lofted Dal for six but when he edged Nick Potts for four to reach 50, collapsed and needed treatment on his left leg.
Although restricted, he drove Shoaib Bashir for two sixes but Aitchison bowled Colin Ackermann and Ollie Robinson was caught behind to keep the outcome in the balance.
By now Stokes was struggling to run but completed his hundred off 116 balls and with Aldridge, took Durham to a memorable victory.
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Durham fast bowler Luke Robinson on Ben Stokes’s match-winning hundred said: “A man who can do what he did today, it’s unbelievable.
“He just provides a calmness and he’s got this aura about him, he’s done all these things and now he’s in the squad with us so it’s amazing to have him.
“If you tell Ben Stokes to leave the pitch there’s no chance, he was always staying out there because we know he can do that.
“It was incredible, we’re not surprised because we know he can do it but they’ve got men in trying to run him out, he’s double leg cramping, he’s still managing to hit sixes and fours and still running. It’s unbelievable.”
Derbyshire Falcons centurion Martin Andersson said: “I think there’s enough in that game we could have improved on to have got the result in our favour.
“We thought 280 would be a good score and so at 25 short we knew we were under par but I think we fielded and fought well as a bowling group.
“We were in a good position, 180 for 2, and then we lost three wickets for only a few runs. I think as a batting group we have to put our hands up, we should have got more which would have made it tighter.”
Middlesex vs Essex, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
Metro Bank One-Day Cup – Men: Middlesex 294-8 beat Essex 253 by 41 runs
By Ben Kosky, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Nathan Fernandes’ maiden white-ball hundred laid the foundations for Middlesex to launch their Metro Bank One-Day Cup campaign with victory against Essex at Radlett.
The opener recovered from a nasty early whack on the helmet, when a ball from Charlie Bennett reared off the surface, to hit 112 from 130 balls, sharing a century partnership with Luke Hollman as Middlesex posted 294 for eight.
Essex’s stand-in skipper Matt Critchley took four for 55 but, despite the best efforts of Noah Thain (74 from 93) and Simon Fernandes, who impressed with a career-best 51 from 65, the visitors came up short at 253.
Hollman finished with three for 51, while Toby Roland-Jones, Naavya Sharma and Noah Cornwell picked up two wickets apiece as Middlesex sealed victory with 22 balls to spare.
Critchley – who led Essex in the absence of Tom Westley, on paternity leave – opted to field in overcast conditions after winning the toss and his decision was vindicated by a stingy opening spell from Jamie Porter (one for 28).
The experienced seamer reeled off eight consecutive overs for 17, including the wicket of Josh de Caires and Middlesex endured almost 10 overs without a boundary as well as losing Sam Robson, who miscued Zaman Akhter to mid-off.
Ben Geddes (36 from 39) brought his side some momentum, pulling Akhter and Mackenzie Jones for sixes – but the stroke proved his undoing when he was caught by Bennett running in from mid-on.
However, Fernandes hung in there and, having steered Critchley to the cover fence to bring up his 50, he began accelerating alongside Hollman (40 from 51) as the pair added 110 from 116.
Despite getting held up in the 90s, Fernandes eventually smeared a single to pass three figures before he became the second of Critchley’s four victims and Zafar Gohar’s unbeaten 22 from 13, which included three sixes, lifted Middlesex to just short of 300.
Thain and Robin Das quickly made inroads on the target, with the latter going after Sharma as he racked up a series of off-side boundaries and the seamer’s third over disappeared for 22.
Cornwell’s first ball broke the opening stand of 57 from 43, with Sharma taking a low catch around the corner to dismiss Das before Roland-Jones struck twice in four deliveries, including the key wicket of Critchley.
That left Essex wobbling at 92 for four, but Simon Fernandes produced some eye-catching shots against the spinners, reverse-sweeping Gohar with precision to the rope and reaching 50 with back-to-back boundaries off Hollman.
The leg-spinner ended the fifth-wicket partnership of 86, bowling Thain before clasping a return catch from Fernandes in his next over – yet Essex debutant Ali Zeb refused to give up the battle.
The 19-year-old was left unbeaten on 34 from 32, running out of partners as Sharma ended Essex’s hopes by taking the final two wickets in as many balls.
Middlesex batter NATHAN FERNANDES said:
“We’re really pleased with the result and the performance today and glad to get a win first up. It was a pretty tough outfield to field on, but I thought we bowled well up top and then the spinners did the job in the middle.
“Batting first at Radlett, you can’t be sure what the wicket’s going to do. We identified it was a little bit two-paced, with variable bounce, so you had to assess that and realise taking it on was probably not the best option.
“It was just a case of understanding where the scoring options were and waiting for the loose ball rather than trying to force it.
“I’m grateful to get the opportunity, it’s been a lot of hard work and now I just want to bat and see where it goes.
“Obviously to get there (to 100) was a personal milestone but it also helped to get the team into a good position.”
Essex coach TOM HUGGINS said:
“It ended up being quite close. We were relatively happy at halfway – turning up here, we reckoned a par score was 260-odd but quickly assessed it was potentially a few more than that.
“Noah (Thain) and Robin (Das) played beautifully and then that cluster of wickets, losing those four in relatively quick succession, put us on the back foot a bit. The partnership between Noah and Simon (Fernandes) got us back in, then losing those two put a spanner in the works.
“They were going along nicely and we had a clear plan as to where we wanted to be going into that last 10, but ultimately we fell just short.
“It’s brilliant that we’ve lost five lads to the Hundred, what we want to do is produce cricketers who progress and that in turn gives opportunities to others. With Tom (Westley) having his third child this morning, Simon Harmer having a jab in his hip and Snates (Shane Snater) having a well-deserved rest, we ended up slightly short
“So Ali Zeb got his opportunity, he played very nicely at the end and kept us in the hunt all the way along.”
Yorkshire vs Hampshire, Group B, Metro Bank One Day Cup
ECB Reporters Network: Yorkshire 270 all out v Hampshire 320-8, Metro Bank One-Day Cup, Group B. Hampshire won by 50 runs.
Yorkshire 0 points, Hampshire 4 points
By Graham Hardcastle, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Hampshire repeated last September’s Metro Bank One-Day Cup semi-final win over Yorkshire at Scarborough, impressively defending a 321-target to secure an opening day Group B triumph by 50 runs.
Tom Prest’s superb 94-ball 109 underpinned a 320 for eight total – also including Jake Lehmann’s 75 – for last year’s beaten finalists, whose inexperienced attack fought back tigerishly from a fast White Rose start.
Indian overseas debutant Ashutosh Sharma struck twice in an over with his seam and finished with three for 48 from nine overs in Yorkshire’s 270 all out.
Will Luxton and George Hill contributed 64 and 61 for Yorkshire, but the hosts needed more amidst a number of soft dismissals.
Lehmann and Prest united at 68 for three in the 17th over following early wickets for Ben Coad, Ben Cliff and another seamer in Isaac Bepey, a 25-year-old left-arm debutant from Sussex who has impressed playing for Leeds/Bradford University and Yorkshire’s second team.
Bepey added two late wickets, but the innings had been transformed by Lehmann and Prest.
They shared a List A fourth-wicket record partnership on this ground, with Lehmann dropped on five and Prest on 73.
Prest was more dynamic, hoisting four sixes. Two went down the ground against spin and seam en-route to an 89-ball century, the 23-year-old’s third in this format.
Hampshire’s acceleration was shown in Hill’s figures. He took the new ball and only conceded 10 runs in his first seven overs. His last three went for 43 and included the wicket of Prest, caught in the deep late on.
On a true pitch against an inexperienced bowling attack, Yorkshire would not have been daunted by the size of their chase. And Adam Lyth and Will Luxton took 46 off the first five overs.
The latter then hit four boundaries off Dom Kelly’s seam in the seventh over – 71 without loss – and the hosts were motoring.
But two wickets fell with the score on 84 – added to another on 113 – to raise Hampshire hopes.
Lyth was lbw for 35 reverse sweeping at Andrew Neal’s left-arm spin before Will Bennison was run out backing up without facing a ball. Luxton had reached his fifty off 36 balls but pulled debutant seamer Oli Williams down to long-leg.
Sam Whiteman (44) and Hill shared a calming 68, but nerves were jangling again when the former fell caught off a top-edge against Sharma with 181 on the board in the 30th over.
Hill lofted Harry Petrie over long-on for six en-route to his fifty off 55 balls but skewed a top-edge to short third against Neal, leaving the score at 233 for six after 39. Fin Bean had also been run out.
Every time Yorkshire looked like getting on top, Hampshire struck.
And when Sharma had Harry Duke caught at deep midwicket pulling and then captain Dom Bess caught at cover in the 43rd over, Yorkshire were 249 for eight.
Prest struck with his off-spin before Bepey was the third batter run out to wrap things up.
Yorkshire all-rounder George Hill said
“We’ve spoken about people in the top six seeing it through, being there at the end. Today was obviously a couple of nice starts, but nobody was there at the end.
“I thought 320 was pretty chaseable on that wicket and with a smaller boundary to one side and the wind going that way.
“We thought if we had wickets in hand towards the end, we’d be able to get 10 an over for the last 10, but it didn’t quite happen. They bowled well to be fair.
“They adapted a little bit quicker than we potentially did, and that’s probably the reason why they won I reckon.
“It was sort of similar to last year in that semi-final where we bowled really well for 30 overs, but I thought Prest and Lehmann batted really well in that middle phase. That meant they could go pretty hard towards that back end, and I think it was mis-execution from us more than anything.”
Hampshire batter Tom Prest said
“It turned into a really good fightback after the start with the ball, and it’s always great to start the competition with a win.
“Two of our three seamers here, it’s their first List A game, and Dom Kelly has only played a handful. They got off to good start, but we kept our heads.
“I’m obviously very pleased to start the competition like that, personally. Jake Lehmann played as well as he has done all season, and Ben Brown at the end and Ali Orr up top as well.
“We knew we were definitely in the game (with 320-8). It’s not an easy place to defend here. We managed to squeeze them through the middle and pick up a few wickets at key times.
“We’ve been on the wrong end of a couple of finals over the last few years. But we’re as excited as ever to try and go one better in this comp.”
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