Tom Banton 84, Matt Henry four-for maintain Somerset clear on the prime
Somerset 208 for five (Banton 84) beat Surrey 190 for 9 (Jacks 50, Henry 4-30) by 18 runs
Tom Banton lit up a depressing night time at a sold-out Kia Oval with an excellent 84 as South Group leaders Somerset beat Surrey by 18 runs to go away their hosts needing to win their closing recreation to affix them within the quarter-finals.
Banton’s brilliance underpinned Somerset’s 208 for five after they’d been put in and so they then bowled and fielded impressively to defend that complete and chalk up their eleventh win out of 13. Matt Henry picked up two wickets with the brand new ball and two extra on the finish to complete with a superb 4 for 30 whereas New Zealand legspinner Ish Sodhi had 3 for 33 on a formidable debut together with the important thing wickets of Will Jacks, who top-scored for Surrey with 50, and Jamie Smith off successive balls within the ninth over.
That left Surrey 85 for five and though Sam Curran saved swinging with 47, Surrey completed on 190 for 9. Somerset had already secured a house tie within the final eight however Surrey might want to beat Essex on the Kia Oval on Sunday to provide themselves the prospect of ending runners-up.
Surrey paid closely for an unusually sloppy efficiency within the area. Banton was badly dropped by Jacks at backward level on 39, Jacks having earlier put down a more durable probability when Tom Kohler-Cadmore had made 14. Those drops had been to value Surrey 70 runs.
Somerset misplaced Will Smeed within the fourth over when he didn’t clear mid-on off Sean Abbott, however Banton and Kohler-Cadmore ticked alongside at almost 12 an over for the subsequent 5 overs, Kohler-Cadmore producing the shot of the innings when he reverse-swept Sunil Narine over the quick boundary on the gasholder facet which bounced again off the scoreboard.
Jacks held on to a catch to take away Kohler-Cadmore for 39 and Narine picked up Tom Abell and Tom Lammonby in successive overs to provide Surrey some management. But when Ben Green, twice, and Banton lofted Tom Lawes over the leg-side boundary within the fifteenth over Somerset discovered momentum once more. Banton appeared to be heading in the right direction for 100 however aiming to clear the leg facet once more he bought a forefront and Sam Curran took a easy catch off his personal bowling.
Green struck the ball impressively in his 40 from 24 balls though Curran and skipper Chris Jordan did nicely to solely concede 12 runs within the final two overs.
Somerset’s most skilled seamers, Craig Overton and Henry, shared the primary six overs and Henry eliminated Laurie Evans, who drove to mid-on, and Narine, caught at mid-off, to provide them early management. Jacks and Sam Curran counterattacked, including 58 in 29 balls earlier than Sodhi made a decisive breakthrough in his first over for the county.
Jacks had simply reached a 26-ball fifty – his fifth on this season’s Blast – when Kohler-Cadmore plucked an excellent catch out of the air at long-on and Sodhi pinned Smith lbw along with his subsequent ball. If that wasn’t dangerous sufficient, Craig Overton returned to the assault within the subsequent over and had the damaging Abbott caught behind. Surrey had misplaced three wickets in six balls for the addition of 1 run and their race appeared run.
Sam Curran and Jamie Overton took the struggle again to Somerset, sharing 51 off 28 balls earlier than Green, the competitors’s main wicket-taker, snared his twenty seventh sufferer when he bowled Overton at first of the fifteenth over. A goal of 67 off the final 5 overs was past Surrey however at the very least a crowd of 25,000 had 19 sixes and almost 400 runs to take pleasure in.