Warwickshire clinch knockout spot with 10-over thumping

Warwickshire 104 for 3 (Barnard 32) beat Northamptonshire 80 for six (Rhodes 3-22) by 24 runs

Warwickshire secured their place within the Metro Bank One-Day Cup knockout stage with a 24-run win over Northamptonshire in a ten-over thrash at Edgbaston.

The endeavours of the Edgbaston groundstaff and the persistence of the impressively giant variety of house followers who stayed via the rain was rewarded with a 5pm begin and a sixth straight win for the Bears.

Northamptonshire by no means recovered from a stodgy begin, hitting simply two fours within the first three overs, and completed properly quick on 80 for six as Will Rhodes took 3 for 22 and Olly Hannon-Dalby 2 for 10. They now must win each their remaining video games to have an opportunity of qualifying.

Put in, Warwickshire have been abrasively launched by a stand of 40 in 20 balls by openers Barnard and Rob Yates. The latter despatched one ball out of the stadium over the very quick Pershore Road-side boundary however then perished when he chipped Jack White to mid-on.

Warwickshire charged to 50 in 4 overs in opposition to the seamers however discovered the spin of Kerrigan tougher to assault. The sluggish left-armer’s first ball dismissed Jacob Bethell, who lifted a reverse-sweep, and his fourth lured Barnard out of his floor to be stumped by skipper Lewis McManus.

Rhodes (23 off 15 balls) and Michael Burgess (26 off 19) flailed away to blended impact so as to add 51 in 33 balls to make sure a demanding goal.

Northamptonshire’s reply started slowly as Hannon-Dalby and Craig Miles every delivered an over for simply 5 runs. Ricardo Vasconcelos lifted a Henry Brookes full toss to deep mid-wicket and the guests’ resolution to bat second got here again to chunk them as gloom descended.

The innings’ first six, hoisted over the off facet by Rob Keogh off Rhodes, eventually got here from the thirty third ball, however Keogh lifted the thirty fourth solely to additional cowl.

Tom Taylor, in prime kind, launched his first ball for six and, whereas he was there, Northants nonetheless had a sniff, however Emilio Gay hoovered up 15 balls for his eight runs, Taylor skied Hannon-Dalby to additional cowl, and the problem of discovering 47 from the final three overs proved far an excessive amount of.