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On Friday, June 21, the Vitality T20 Blast 2024 featured eight matches, with four in the North and South Group each.
Warwickshire Bears climbed up from second to first after claiming their sixth win over Worcestershire. Lancashire Lightning descended to second with 10 points and a net run rate of +1.231. Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Durham occupy the following three positions, respectively, with nine points each.
Yorkshire, after a narrow three-run loss to Durham, dropped from fourth to sixth. Meanwhile, Derbyshire, Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire are in the last three spots with six, five, and four points, respectively.
Surrey retained top spot of the South Group table with 13 points, following a nine-wicket win over Glamorgan. While Sussex jumped to second after a seven-run victory over Hampshire, Somerset moved to third with 10 points.
Essex claimed their fifth win against Kent and are fourth with a positive NRR of +0.394. Gloucestershire are fifth position with four wins and three losses. Meanwhile, Hampshire and Glamorgan endured their fourth and fifth defeats on Friday, placing them in sixth and seventh positions, respectively.
Kent and Middlesex complete the South Group table with six losses in eight games each.
Warwickshire tops North Group while Sussex moves to second in South
Warwickshire beat Worcestershire in the first game by five wickets. Bowling first, they restricted Worcestershire to a modest total of 155-7. Sam Hain (76) and Jacob Bethell (71*) helped them reach the total in 17.5 overs.
The second game between Leicestershire and Northamptonshire was tied. With skipper David Willey’s 71, Matthew Breetzke’s 47 and Sikandar Raza’s 36 (14), Northamptonshire posted 208. However, Rishi Patel’s century backed by Lewis Goldsworthy’s boundary on the last ball helped them level the scores.
Nottinghamshire secured their second victory over Derbyshire in the third game of the day. They had set a 174-run target, which they defended, thanks to two wickets each from Ben Lister, Liam Patterson-White, Olly Stone and Lyndon James.
In the next game, Surrey grabbed their third victory over Glamorgan by nine wickets. Bowling first, they halted Glamorgan to a mere 107-9. In response, Daniel Lawrence (27), Dominic Sibley (43*) and Laurie Evans (31) helped chase down the target in nine overs.
Essex, meanwhile, secured their second consecutive win against Kent by five wickets. They limited Kent to 156-7 and achieved the total in 15 overs, thanks to Michael-Kyle Pepper’s match-winning knock of 76 (42). Nathan Gilchrist took a three-wicket haul for Kent.
Gloucestershire bagged their third victory in a row against Somerset. Somerset had racked up an 189-run target, which they reached in 18.4 overs with five wickets in hand. James Bracey (44), Oliver Price (43*), Ben Charlesworth (36*) and Miles Hammond (39) were the major run-getters for Gloucestershire.
Durham claimed a mere three-run victory against Yorkshire in the penultimate game of the day. Durham had scored 170-6. Adam Lyth scored a fifty for Yorkshire, while William Luxton added 33, but despite decent contributions from the middle order, they fell short by a few runs.
Sussex registered their sixth triumph, second in a row, over Hampshire. With a strong batting effort from the middle and lower order, Sussex posted an 184-run target for the opposition. Despite James Vince (52) and Joe Weatherley (68*) scoring half-centuries, Hampshire fell short by seven runs.
