Hampshire seek out pace-setters Surrey with crushing nine-wicket win
Hampshire 125 for 1 (Vince 62*, McDermott 50) beat Surrey 124 (Overton 45, Turner 3-17, Wood 3-20, Ellis 3-21) by 9 wickets
Hampshire Hawks strengthened their bid for Vitality Blast quarter-final qualification by trouncing South Group leaders Surrey by 9 wickets in a one-sided affair on the Kia Oval.
An excellent collective bowling efficiency by Hampshire, led by the spectacular John Turner‘s 3 for 17, resulted in Surrey being bowled out for simply 124 in 19.2 overs.
Ben McDermott, with a hard-hit 50 off 38 balls, and James Vince, who completed with an excellent 62 not out off 40 balls, then ensured a Hampshire stroll to victory with a gap partnership of 92 in precisely 11 overs.
The in-form Vince, who has now scored 476 runs in ten innings on this season’s Blast at a mean of 79.33, noticed the Hawks residence within the firm of Toby Albert and it was a primary T20 win for Hampshire towards Surrey in 9 makes an attempt, going again to July 2015. Vince hit two sixes and 7 fours, his final a pull off Sean Abbott to finish the sport.
McDermott ramped his fellow Australian worldwide, paceman Abbott, for 4 and 6 from successive balls within the second over of Hampshire’s reply and he later top-edged a hook at Tom Lawes for an additional most earlier than falling to Gus Atkinson. His 92-run stand with Vince equalled Hampshire’s T20 finest for the primary wicket towards Surrey, by Michael Lumb and Jimmy Adams on the Ageas Bowl in 2009.
Jamie Overton, with three sixes and 5 fours in a robust 45 from 24 balls, was the one Surrey batsman to make a rating of word as Turner, Chris Wood (3 for 20) and Nathan Ellis (3 for 21) exerted an nearly complete stranglehold.
Surrey, joint prime of the South Group alongside Somerset in the beginning of the sport, with seven wins from their first 9 matches, misplaced their first 5 wickets for simply 32 after being put into bat and, on the midway level of the innings, have been in serious trouble at 39 for 5.
Only a rare 56-run stand in a mere 3.1 overs between Overton and Tom Curran – notably extraordinary within the context of the remainder of the innings – hauled Surrey’s complete as much as one thing defendable. Their partnership was a seventh wicket T20 report for Surrey towards Hampshire, beating the 52 placed on by Zafar Ansari and Gareth Batty on the Ageas Bowl in 2012.
When Surrey captain Jordan mishit Ellis to deep mid-off to go for 17 it left the entire 53 for six from 12.4 overs, and his staff in disarray.
But Overton pulled Benny Howell’s medium tempo for an enormous six into the second tier of the JM Finn Stand to start a much-needed revival within the 14th over. Howell’s supply had additionally been a no ball, giving Overton the prospect to muscle the subsequent ball, a free hit, over large mid wicket for an additional six because the over finally value 20 runs.
Nineteen extra have been plundered from the fifteenth over, with Overton taking three fours and a pulled six off James Fuller, whereas Curran then joined within the enjoyable by pulling Wood for six after which creaming the left-arm seamer via additional cowl for 4 earlier than being caught at lengthy on for an 11-ball 22 later that over.
Turner returned to bowl Sunil Narine for two, off his again pad, and Overton’s tremendous knock was ended within the nineteenth over when Ellis fired a full ball via one other tried huge hit.
Last pair Atkinson and Lawes got here along with nonetheless 9 balls of the innings to be bowled however they might not handle to see out the 20 overs, with Wood bowling Atkinson for 5 behind his legs.
Wood had truly began Surrey’s wrestle by forcing Will Jacks to chip the fifth ball of the sport to mid wicket, to go for a duck, and Laurie Evans (1) skied Turner to mid on within the second over.
Sam Curran clubbed Ellis to mid off within the fifth over, and Jamie Smith had solely made two extra runs than Curran when he fell for 9 within the subsequent over, mis-hitting the pacy Turner to mid on.
The powerplay ended with Surrey a sickly 22 for 4 and Abbott was then despatched again for six when he touched a Fuller lifter to the keeper.