{"id":626592,"date":"2026-06-07T22:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626592\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T22:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:07:08","slug":"vitality-blast-men-2026-som-vs-war-central-west-group-match-report-june-07-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/626592\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitality Blast Men 2026, SOM vs WAR Central & West Group Match Report, June 07, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warwickshire 216 for 4 (Webster 112, Mousley 71*) beat Somerset 215 for 4 (Hermann 90*, Gregory 55*) by six wickets<\/p>\n

Beau Webster<\/a> belted a brilliant maiden T20 century as Warwickshire<\/a> registered their first victory of the Vitality Blast campaign, beating holders Somerset<\/a> by six wickets at the Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton.The Australian international raised 112 from 61 deliveries with nine fours and seven sixes and dominated a stand of 145 in 12.5 overs with Dan Mousley<\/a>, who weighed in with an unbeaten 36-ball 71 as the Bears reached a victory target of 216 with two balls to spare.Jordan Hermann<\/a> had earlier top-scored with 90 not out from 48 balls with nine fours and sixes sixes to help Somerset to 215 for 4. The South African left-hander combined with Lewis Gregory – who smashed a 26-ball 55 not out – in a high-octane partnership of 117 off the last eight overs, but it was not enough to prevent Somerset suffering a fourth straight defeat in the Central and West Group.<\/p>\n

Somerset raced to 35 off 21 deliveries after being put in, only to lose Tom Banton, caught at mid-on off the bowling of Webster for 24. Fellow opener Josh Thomas departed in the next over, top-edging a lifting delivery from Richard Gleeson to deep third with the score 39 for 2.<\/p>\n

Hermann spearheaded a recovery in alliance with James Rew, the third-wicket pair adding 59 in 7.4 overs to put Somerset back in credit. Rew adopted a supporting role, contributing 28 before hoisting Jordan Thompson to deep midwicket.<\/p>\n

Younger sibling Thomas Rew was bowled by the next delivery as Somerset slipped to 98 for 4 in the 13th, but Hermann went to a 30-ball half century with five fours and three sixes to give the innings renewed impetus.<\/p>\n

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Jordan Hermann reverse-sweeps during his unbeaten 90\u2022Getty Images<\/p>\n

He found a willing ally in Gregory, the fifth-wicket pair raising 50 from 25 balls before launching a fearsome late assault as the Bears bowling wilted. Opening his shoulders, Gregory smashed three sixes and a four in one Mousley over and went to a blistering 50 from 22 balls with a towering six off Thompson as the hundred partnership materialised from just 41 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Zen Malik was run out by Lewis Goldsworthy without scoring, but Rob Yates and Webster added 45 in 4.3 overs to give the reply lift-off. Yates had raised 24 from 15 when he flicked a ball from Alfie Ogborne off his legs and was held at short fine leg.<\/p>\n

Somerset’s respite proved short-lived, Mousley joining Webster to propel the score to 92 for 2 at halfway as the third-wicket pair put Somerset’s seamers under pressure. Webster went to 50 off 35 deliveries to nudge Warwickshire ahead on DLS as rain began to fall.<\/p>\n

Struggling to control a wet ball, Somerset’s bowlers had no answer to the onslaught as Webster went to three figures from 54 balls, while Mousley’s half-century took 29 deliveries. Gregory had Webster caught long-off with 25 more required from 13 balls, but Mousley kept his cool to see the job through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warwickshire 216 for 4 (Webster 112, Mousley 71*) beat Somerset 215 for 4 (Hermann 90*, Gregory 55*) by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4206,1721,266,212448,212447,101,56,54,55,204483],"class_list":["post-626592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-articles","tag-cricket","tag-reports","tag-som-vs-war","tag-somerset-vs-warwickshire-central-west-group-cricket-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vitality-blast-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626592","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=626592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}