{"id":135670,"date":"2025-09-14T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135670\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T00:09:08","slug":"t20-blast-somerset-pull-off-record-final-run-chase-to-beat-hampshire-hawks-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/135670\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast: Somerset pull off record final run chase to beat Hampshire Hawks – as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve all had a Blast…published at 22:50 BST 13 September<\/p>\n

22:50 BST 13 September<\/p>\n

Somerset beat Hampshire by six wickets<\/p>\n

\"SomersetImage source, PA Media<\/p>\n

Whether you’re dressed as a traffic cone in the Hollies or a professional cricketer trying to win one of the most prestigious white-ball competitions in the world, memories are forged on Finals Day that will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n

What a spectacular day this has been. Somerset won 11 of their 14 matches in the group stage and then saw off Bears and Lancashire to book a date with Hampshire, who had Chris Lynn to thank for their place in the final, hitting 108 not out from 51 balls in a chase of 155.<\/p>\n

The final lived up to the hype. Hampshire made a blistering start but were gradually pegged back just enough that their own batters were able to complete a record Finals Day run-chase – beating the previous best by 22 runs.<\/p>\n

Will Smeed came within six runs of joining Lynn as the only Finals Day centurions while skipper Lewis Gregory hit two sixes in three balls to win it with six balls to spare.<\/p>\n

Astonishing cricket drama.<\/p>\n

If you like that, we’ll have plenty more for you from Monday, as Surrey and Nottinghamshire, one point apart at the top of the County Championship, meet at The Kia Oval, while Hampshire visit Somerset in Division One too…. bit awkward after tonight.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your company on this mammoth day, we’ll see you at 10:00 BST on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’ve all had a Blast…published at 22:50 BST 13 September 22:50 BST 13 September Somerset beat Hampshire by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-135670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}