{"id":138544,"date":"2025-09-15T09:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138544\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:12:15","slug":"t20-blast-semi-final-somerset-beat-lancashire-to-reach-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/138544\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast semi-final: Somerset beat Lancashire to reach final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although Livingstone&#8217;s wicket just as he was beginning to motor turned the game in Somerset&#8217;s favour, some outstanding fielding contributed to their victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kohler-Cadmore claimed two catches inches above the turf, and Gregory and Migael Pretorius also took stunning diving efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, new dad Kohler-Cadmore was the only Somerset batter to find any real timing on a sticky pitch, striking six fours and four sixes as he looked on course to make the first century at Finals Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lancashire paceman George Balderson (3-31) had him caught on the boundary but Craig Overton and Pretorius helped Somerset to an above par score by hitting Tom Aspinwall for 21 off the final over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside the controversy of Livingstone&#8217;s dismissal, Lancashire also made an unusual move at the start of the 19th over, retiring Balderson who had seven off six balls, and replacing him with Tom Hartley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It backfired as Hartley chipped Ben Green to Kohler-Cadmore first ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Anderson took 2-34 in what might be his last Finals Day and came out to bat as the rain arrived in Birmingham with Somerset strolling to victory by 23 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2023 champions have the chance to avenge last year&#8217;s defeat by West Country rivals Gloucestershire in the final which is due to start at 18:45 BST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Livingstone&#8217;s wicket just as he was beginning to motor turned the game in Somerset&#8217;s favour, some outstanding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-138544","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\/138544","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=138544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}