{"id":122788,"date":"2025-09-06T08:53:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122788\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:53:13","slug":"t20-blast-hampshire-beat-durham-to-reach-finals-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/122788\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast: Hampshire beat Durham to reach Finals Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opener Toby Albert continued his superb form in the T20 Blast to help Hampshire Hawks beat Durham by 26 runs and reach Finals Day for the 11th time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albert was the fifth-highest run-scorer in the group stage, with 472 runs, and he picked up where he left off, making 68 in 37 balls with four sixes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opening partner Chris Lynn, with 51 in 27 deliveries, and then Hilton Cartwright, 61 in 31 balls, saw Hampshire pile up 221-8, the highest score by an opposition at Chester-le-Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Faced with making their highest T20 chase, Durham were always struggling and could only reply with 195-6, with Ollie Robinson making a late 60 from 33 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hampshire will now play Northamptonshire Steelbacks in the first semi-final at Edgbaston on Saturday, 13 September, while Durham continue to wait for a first Finals Day appearance since 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire face Kent (14:30 BST) and Somerset host Bears (18:30) in the last two quarter-finals on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opener Toby Albert continued his superb form in the T20 Blast to help Hampshire Hawks beat Durham by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-122788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}