On the back of three straight wins, Middlesex chose to bat first against leaders Yorkshire at Radlett, but quickly slipped to 1-2 after just seven balls.<\/p>\n
It set the template for the innings as Ben Coad (3-26) and Matt Milnes (4-29) ran through the hosts who subsided to 129 all out in just 31 overs – the lowest-ever List A score at the Middlesex out-ground.<\/p>\n
In reply, Adam Lyth (39) and Imam put on 59 for the first wicket before three quick wickets from pacer Henry Brookes saw Yorkshire slip to 67-3.<\/p>\n
But it proved just a brief wobble as Duke followed up his six catches with an unbeaten 28 in an unbroken stand of 63 with Imam (54 not out).<\/p>\n
Having started the day in second, the heavy defeat saw Middlesex end the day in fifth, with four teams separated by net run rate with three group games to go.<\/p>\n
The group includes Somerset and Warwickshire, who played out a thriller at Taunton.<\/p>\n
Asked to bat first, Somerset started strongly as Tom Lammonby and James Rew added 143 for the third wicket, opener Lammonby falling a ball after bringing up a 110-ball century.<\/p>\n
Skipper Rew made a typically aggressive 81 off 69 balls before his younger brother Thomas plundered three sixes in a 29-ball 41 as the hosts posted 309-8.<\/p>\n
Ben Green (3-65) removed Bears’ top-order batters Rob Yates (47) and Zen Malik (44), but runs came all the way down, with Hamza Shaikh adding 44 to keep the visitors in touch.<\/p>\n
Jake Lintott fell within touching distance after an aggressive 36-ball 50, but Kai Smith (45 not out) struck the winning run with just three balls to spare.<\/p>\n
Sussex make up the quartet after moving up to fourth after an impressive chase in Northampton.<\/p>\n
Northamptonshire looked set to post a total well above 300 as Stuart van der Merwe hit 59 on his professional debut in a 115-run fourth-wicket stand with James Sales.<\/p>\n
Having brought up his maiden senior ton on Friday against Durham, Sales fell two runs short of completing back-to-back centuries, as the Sharks fought back well at the death to keep the hosts to 295-8.<\/p>\n
Sussex openers Tear and Tom Haines (76) then made the most of a lightning-fast outfield to put on 216 in 33 overs and break the back of the chase.<\/p>\n
Haines finally went for 76, but Tear kept on going, bringing up his first List A ton and hitting 23 fours in a 146-ball knock of 159 to tee up a seven-wicket win with 19 balls to spare.<\/p>\n
And Kent remain bottom despite chalking up their first win at home, against seventh-placed Lancashire.<\/p>\n
BJ Dawkins impressed with a 79-ball 85 in just his second senior appearance, as he put on 155 with Jayden Denly, who fell nine runs short of a maiden List A ton.<\/p>\n
Grant Stewart then smashed three sixes in a rapid 32 to take the home side to a challenging 315-8.<\/p>\n
The Spitfires looked set to wrap up a comfortable early win as the spin of Matt Parkinson (3-57) reduced Lancashire to 189-6, yet Josh Bohannon made them sweat.<\/p>\n
Coming in at 38-2, Bohannon put on 96 with Marcus Harris (54) and took the Red Rose within 30 of the target, hitting 17 fours and two sixes.<\/p>\n
But soon after he was ninth wicket to fall for 133, off 110 balls, the visitors were bowled out for 293.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the back of three straight wins, Middlesex chose to bat first against leaders Yorkshire at Radlett, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-73908","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\/73908","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=73908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}