Somerset, who have won two of the past three T20 titles, looked down and out when they needed 80 runs from 27 balls to beat Yorkshire.<\/p>\n
The target of 162 set by the Tykes was the lowest in T20 matches at Headingley this season by 31 runs.<\/p>\n
Only Adam Lyth (64), with a third half-century of the campaign, had troubled the scorers for Yorkshire as Somerset’s bowlers shared the load – Jake Ball taking 3-30 and two wickets apiece for Riley Meredith (2-27), Daniel Sams (2-29) and Craig Overton (2-36).<\/p>\n
The hosts then tore into Somerset in their first meeting in this format, quickly reducing the holders to 28-4 in their sixth over.<\/p>\n
Tom Banton, released by England to play the game, fell for just one, as did brothers Thomas and James Rew.<\/p>\n
Will Smeed (21), Tom Kohler-Cadmore (2), skipper Lewis Gregory (19) and Daniel Sams (0) soon followed to leave Somerset 59-7 and requiring 103 to win from eight overs.<\/p>\n
Overton then staged an almost unthinkable recovery, hitting eight fours and five sixes on the way to his first T20 Blast half-century, to inflict a painful defeat on Yorkshire, whose wait for a first title goes on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset, who have won two of the past three T20 titles, looked down and out when they needed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-693684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693684","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=693684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}