Tom Kohler-Cadmore assault helps steer Somerset previous Sussex
Somerset 184 for five (Kohler-Cadmore 72, Mills 3-28) beat Sussex 183 for 8 (Bopara 88*, Henry 3-50) by 5 wickets
Tom Kohler-Cadmore led the way in which with 72 as Somerset made it two wins from two within the Vitality Blast, chasing down a goal of 184 to beat Sussex Sharks by 5 wickets with three balls to spare on the 1st Central County Ground.
The sport had been held up for almost ten minutes within the seventh over of the Somerset reply when Nathan McAndrew and debutant Shadab Khan collided on the Hove outfield going for a excessive catch supplied by Kohler-Cadmore.
Both gamers spent a number of minutes on the bottom receiving remedy from Sussex’s medical employees earlier than being helped to their ft. McAndrew was capable of bowl his 4 overs after passing a concussion protocol however Khan, the Pakistan legspinner who was making his Sussex debut, needed to depart the sector.
It left Sussex skipper Ravi Bopara, who had earlier scored an unbeaten 88, with out one in every of his key bowlers and with Fynn Hudson-Prentice’s 2.3 overs costing 51 runs Bopara was left with little room for manoeuvre, particularly when Kohler-Cadmore began to maneuver by way of the gears.
Kohler-Cadmore, who joined Somerset from Yorkshire throughout the winter, relished a flat pitch and quick outfield as he shared a match-winning stand of 104 off 63 balls with skipper Tom Abell. Kohler-Cadmore hit 5 sixes and 5 fours from 42 deliveries and when he was caught off Tymal Mills making an attempt to information the ball over third, the goal was all the way down to 22 from 4 overs.
Abell was run out off the ultimate ball of the penultimate over for 42 with each he and Lewis Gregory stranded on the identical finish, however Gregory hit the second ball of the ultimate over for 4 to seal the deal for Somerset.
Until he misplaced one in every of his key bowlers, Bopara should have thought his innings would have been the distinction. The 38-year-old had warmed up for the Blast by scoring 144 from 49 balls in a second staff match towards Middlesex on Tuesday, and though there was by no means any hazard of a repeat towards an skilled Somerset assault he performed beautifully nonetheless.
In his 440th sport within the format, Bopara got here in after Sussex had misplaced Tom Clark and Tom Alsop in Craig Overton’s first two overs and he barely performed a false shot till the final over when Abell dropped a troublesome diving catch at midwicket.
Bopara hit seven sixes and three fours with principal help coming from Ali Orr who scored 33 together with three successive boundaries off Matt Henry earlier than he was beautifully caught one-handed in his observe by way of by Gregory.
Michael Burgess helped Bopara add 57 in 42 balls for the fifth wicket however the complete swelled when Henry was taken for 16 off the final 4 deliveries of the innings as Bopara swung him over midwicket for six off a no-ball and guided the free hit to the backward level boundary.
Despite shedding Will Smeed within the second over, Somerset had 50 on the board after 4 due to Tom Banton’s assault on Hudson-Prentice whose over went for 29, together with successive sixes.
Banton was effectively caught by the diving Orr making an attempt to assist a bumper from Mills over lengthy leg however after the delay, with a second Hudson-Prentice over costing 16 as Kohler-Cadmore hit him for successive sixes, Somerset at all times had the chase underneath management.