Vitality T20 Blast 2024 Points Table: Updated standings after Lancashire vs Nottinghamshire, Match 113

The Vitality Blast 2024 season continued on Wednesday, July 17, with a crucial North Group match between Nottinghamshire and hosts Lancashire at Manchester’s Old Trafford. Capitalizing on their home advantage, Lancashire steamrolled Nottinghamshire by eight wickets to consolidate second spot.

Birmingham Bears stay on top of the North Group with 18 points from 12 games while second-placed Lancashire closed in on the gap by moving to 17 points. Leicestershire (0.179), at number three, are placed above fourth-placed Northamptonshire (-0.318) due to having a superior net run rate (NRR).

Yorkshire and Durham, with 13 points each, occupy fifth and sixth spots, respectively, while Derbyshire retained their seventh position by accumulating 11 points from 12 outings. Worcestershire find themselves eighth on the nine-team standings while Nottinghamshire’s latest defeat keeps them at the bottom with a mere six points from 13 matches.

Here’s the updated North Group standings:

Pos	Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Warwickshire	12	9	3	0	18	1.259
2	Lancashire	13	7	3	3	17	1.273
3	Leicestershire	13	6	5	1	14	0.179
4	Northamptonshire	12	6	4	1	14	-0.318
5	Yorkshire	13	6	6	1	13	0.085
6	Durham	13	6	6	1	13	-0.413
7	Derbyshire	12	5	6	1	11	0.195
8	Worcestershire	13	4	9	0	8	-0.203
9	Nottinghamshire	13	2	9	2	6	-1.981

With no South Group games on offer on Wednesday, the points table remained the same with Surrey topping the nine-team standings with 18 points. They are followed by Sussex, Somerset, Essex, Gloucestershire, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Middlesex and Kent in that order.

Here’s the updated South Group standings:

Pos	Teams	Mat	Won	Lost	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Surrey	12	8	2	1	18	1.291
2	Sussex	12	8	4	0	16	0.66
3	Somerset	12	7	4	1	15	1.076
4	Essex	13	7	5	1	15	0.253
5	Gloucestershire	13	6	6	0	13	0.502
6	Glamorgan	13	5	7	1	11	-1.207
7	Hampshire	12	3	6	3	9	-0.649
8	Middlesex	12	3	6	3	9	-1.572
9	Kent	13	3	10	0	6	-0.958

Luke Wood, Phil Salt, and Liam Livingstone headline Lancashire’s big win

After winning the toss and opting to field first, Lancashire bowlers limited Nottinghamshire to just 131/7. Luke Wood seized three key Nottinghamshire wickets to return with figures of 3/23. The speedster received much assistance via timely breakthroughs from Saqib Mahmood (1/26), Chris Green (1/34), Tom Hartley (1/10), and Liam Livingstone (1/22).

For Nottinghamshire, middle-order batter Lyndon James made a sizeable contribution by smacking 51 runs from 38 balls. Wicketkeeper Tom Moores added 26 runs at near run-a-ball from his end towards the backend of the innings.

Chasing 132, the Lancashire batters gunned down the target in just 14.3 overs at the expense of their two opening batters. While Phil Salt laid out the platform with a 42-ball 70 at the top, Liam Livingstone smacked three sixes and as many boundaries in his 37-ball 54* to take Lancashire to an eight-wicket victory.

Edited by Samya Majumdar