Somerset 214 for 6 (Smeed 89, Andersson 3-33) beat Derbyshire 187 for 7 (Donald 65, Sams 3-29) by 27 runs <\/p>\n
Somerset kept their slim hopes of reaching the Vitality Blast knock-out stages alive with a convincing 27-run victory over Derbyshire Falcons at the OurCoop County Ground in Derby.<\/p>\n
Will Smeed’<\/a>s superb 89 including six sixes off 51 balls took the holders to 214 for 6 with Martin Andersson<\/a> taking 3 for 33 for the Falcons.Aneurin Donald<\/a> threatened to pull off a memorable chase with 65 off 27 balls but after he fell to Craig Overton, Somerset bowled with impressive discipline to restrict the Falcons to 187 for 7, Daniel Sams<\/a> finishing with 3 for 29.<\/p>\n In only the second T20 game between the teams, Smeed and Thomas Rew took 61 from the powerplay before two wickets in consecutive overs slowed their progress.<\/p>\n Thomas Rew was bowled by an Andersson slower ball for 39 off 22 balls and his brother James top edged a sweep at Sufyan Moqim.<\/p>\n After 10 overs, Somerset were 88 for 2 and the Falcons were building pressure until Tom Kohler-Cadmore launched Jack Morley for successive sixes in the 12th over.<\/p>\n Smeed reached 50 from 33 balls and celebrated with a big six over wide long on off Moqim and another off Potts in the 16th over.<\/p>\n He launched Potts for another over midwicket and drove the seamer over cover for a third maximum in the over before Kohler-Cadmore missed a big swing to end a stand of 94 from 47 balls.<\/p>\n The over, which included three wides, cost 28 but Smeed’s hopes of a hundred ended in the 17th when he missed a big drive at Moqim.<\/p>\n Andersson took two wickets in the19th but Overton gave the innings a final flourish by hitting the last two balls for four.<\/p>\n The Falcons needed a big response from Donald and he did not disappoint by blasting five sixes in an18 ball 50.<\/p>\n Jake Ball bowled Andersson but Donald was the one Somerset wanted and Overton delivered when he had him caught at deep midwicket off the last ball of the powerplay.<\/p>\n Somerset started to squeeze the hosts and the pressure told as Harry Came pulled Daniel Sams to backward square before Matthew Montgomery swung Ball to deep midwicket.<\/p>\n The rate climbed to above 15 an over and the Falcons fading hopes ended when Sams yorked Wayne Madsen in the 18th over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset 214 for 6 (Smeed 89, Andersson 3-33) beat Derbyshire 187 for 7 (Donald 65, Sams 3-29) by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4206,1721,227537,227536,266,101,56,54,55,204483],"class_list":["post-681621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-articles","tag-cricket","tag-der-vs-som","tag-derbyshire-vs-somerset-cross-pool-cricket-news","tag-reports","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\/681621","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=681621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}