Wells and Charlesworth see Gloucestershire previous Hampshire within the moist
Gloucestershire 85 for two (Wells 43*) beat Hampshire 158 for 7 (Whiteley 41*, Smith 3-26) by eight wickets
Young weapons Ben Wells and Ben Charlesworth staged a blistering unbroken third-wicket stand of 55 as Gloucestershire beat Hampshire by eight wickets on the Duckworth/Lewis Method at Bristol’s Seat Unique Stadium to maintain alive their slender hopes of reaching the knockout levels within the Vitality Blast.
Ross Whiteley smashed an unbeaten 41 off 25 balls as Hampshire recovered from 114 for six in 16.2 overs to publish a decent 158 for 7 after being put in, Gloucestershire’s skilled sluggish left armer Tom Smith returning spectacular figures of three for 26 in 4 overs.
Gloucestershire’s reply was then interrupted by rain, which induced 11 overs to be misplaced, and when the gamers returned at 9.15pm, the house facet had been chasing a revised goal of 84 from 9 overs. Wells led the cost, scoring an outstanding 43 from 22 balls with 3 sixes and three fours, whereas Charlesworth helped himself to a few fours and a brace of sixes, smashing 29 off 15 deliveries to information the house facet to victory with 5 balls to spare.
Hampshire stay fourth within the South Group, however missed a possibility to increase their result in 4 factors over nearest pursuers Glamorgan, whereas a fourth win in 10 video games retains alive Gloucestershire’s slender hopes of progressing to the quarter-finals.
Gloucestershire have but to nail down their performances within the powerplay this season they usually towards misplaced an early wicket, Grant Roelofsen driving uppishly towards John Turner and providing an easy catch to mid-on. The residence facet had reached 15 for 1 within the third over when the onset of heavy rain compelled the gamers off. When the weather lastly relented and play resumed simply over an hour later, Gloucestershire had been required to attain an extra 69 runs in 40 balls at 10.35 an over.
Their hopes had been initially dented when Miles Hammond hit Liam Dawson to mid-off and departed for 4 within the fourth over with the rating on 30-2. Undeterred by the lack of his captain, Wells carried the combat to Hampshire, plundering a brace of fours off one Dawson over after which greeting Australian Nathan Ellis with a straight-driven 4. Charlesworth proved a keen confederate, smashing two fours and a six off three successive deliveries within the sixth over, at which level the house facet wanted an extra 29 runs off 18 balls.
Rising to the event in magnificent trend, Charlesworth hit Turner for a straight six and ramped the subsequent ball for 4 in an over that yielded 11 runs, additional lowering the goal to 18 off the final two overs. Wells then reverse-swept Howell for one more six because the hosts introduced the speed right down to a run a ball within the penultimate over, rendering the rest of their chase a formality.
Hammond earlier received his first toss as captain, inserted Hampshire and noticed Zafar Gohar clear bowl Ben McDermott within the second over, the Australian enjoying down the fallacious line and dropping center stump with out scoring.
James Vince and Toby Albert finally afforded the innings impetus in a boundary-studded stand of 41 in 4.3 overs because the guests seized the initiative. Just when Gloucestershire wanted to drag one thing out of the hat, Wells obliged, operating in from vast mid-off and scoring a direct hit to brilliantly run out Vince for 15 as he tried to pinch a fast single off David Payne within the sixth over.
Thereafter, the house facet deployed spin at each ends in a quest for containment, a coverage that elicited some success as Albert and Joe Weatherley labored exhausting to advance the rating to 71 for two. Although Weatherley deployed the reverse sweep to attain boundaries on the expense of Zafar and sluggish left armer Smith, the thidr-wicket pair had been largely restricted to scampering fast singles in a bid to maintain the scoreboard shifting.
His persistence at breaking level, Albert finally pulled the set off and hoisted Graeme van Buuren straight to Tom Price at long-on with the rating on 84, departing for a 33-ball 36 within the twelfth over having added 43 in partnership with Weatherley.
Ollie Price grew to become the fourth spinner to be deployed as Gloucestershire opted to take the tempo off, Weatherley pulling him for six over midwicket in an try to enhance the speed as Hampshire raised three figures within the fifteenth. But the wily Smith struck a double blow within the subsequent over, having Weatherley stumped for 37 after which, three balls later, bowling James Fuller for one to cut back the guests to 102 for five and put wind again into Gloucestershire sails.
Smith then snared former team-mate Howell earlier than he might inflict any injury, Tom Price racing in from deep midwicket to take a startling one-handed catch low to the bottom and produce the gang the life.
In hazard of falling quick on 114 for six within the seventeenth, Hampshire had been indebted to the hard-hitting Whitely, who tucked into the seamers in muscular trend to reap 3 fours and a couple of sixes in a frenetic knock of 41 not out off 25 balls. Payne bowled Dawson within the ultimate over, however not earlier than the previous England man had performed his half in a restorative stand of 36 in 20 deliveries for the seventh wicket, an alliance the propelled the south coast facet to a aggressive whole.