Vitality Blast 2025 - Video Streaming & Match Reports - All Matches, 6th June

Follow June 6th matches in the Vitality Blast 2025 with real-time live streams, match scores, and full post-game reports across all fixtures.

Worcestershire vs Northamptonshire, Match 22, Vitality Blast

Northants’ Ben Sanderson stole the show as he returned figures of 6-8 in a simply outstanding bowling display as Northants Steelbacks hurried to a 31-run win over Worcestershire Rapids in the Vitality Blast North Group.

Setting their opponents 191 to win, it was Ricardo Vasconcelos (59) who anchored the Steelbacks innings.

In reply, the hosts never got a foothold in the game, with plenty of batters making starts, but regular wickets hampering their pursuit of a competitive score.

Sanderson’s exceptional evening was capped off with a hat-trick as a clinical Northants bowling performance secured them a fourth straight win.

Having won the toss and elected to bat first, David Willey’s side got off to the worst possible start, losing opener Matthew Breetzke, in the first over of the match when he was caught off a Jacob Duffy bouncer.

Ricardo Vasconcelos, came together with Willey, with both playing the conditions and bowling superbly, as pace on the ball only aided the run scoring.

The pair added 74 for the second-wicket, including Willey taking one Ethan Brookes over for 21.

Worcestershire had their spinners to thank in the middle overs however, as Tom Hinely removed Willey for 36, before Fateh Singh entered the attack to dismiss Justin Broad for 1.

At 79-3, Vasconcelos was the in and set batter for Northants, who continued his terrific display of ball-striking on his way to an eye-catching 50 off just 34 balls.

With veteran Ravi Bopara at the crease, the visitors continued their progress as the run-rate lingered around the ten-an-over mark, as the pair brought up their fifty partnership for the fourth-wicket.

Fateh Singh (1-16) produced a canny four-over spell for his side, before Australian seamer Ben Dwarshuis returned to end the dangerous Vasoncelos onslaught for 59.

Bopara, departed shortly after when he failed to clear the long-off boundary, and with his exit the Steelbacks found themselves stuttering somewhat at 147-5, doing well to add 43 in the final three overs to set the home side 191 to win.

Ben Sanderson opened his account for the evening when he removed the Rapids skipper in the second over of the reply, before following up with the big wicket of Kashif Ali, in his next, to leave Worcestershire 22-2 after four-overs.

Pollock was the next man to go, before Brookes (15) followed suit not long after when Lloyd Pope had him caught out, as the Steelbacks bowling unit tightened their grip on proceedings.

Adam Hose held the key for the hosts, as he continued to accumulate boundaries with new partner Gareth Roderick – but when he held out for 27, the odds were stacked against the Rapids.

George Scrimshaw castled the threatening Gareth Roderick for 29, before the Rapids lost Hinley (21) and Dwarshuis (26), to all but end their hopes of a big comeback.

Sanderson finished the evening with a hat-trick, to complete his exceptional figures of 6-8 from his four over spell, as he and his bowling counterparts drove their team to a thoroughly deserved 31-run victory.

Sussex vs Somerset, Match 23, Vitality Blast

ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay

 

Somerset maintained their 100 per cent record in the Vitality Blast after cruising to a seven-wicket win over previously unbeaten Sussex Sharks at Hove.

Having restricted them to 166 for eight after putting Sussex in, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Tom Lammonby broke the back of Somerset’s chase when they added 89 off 45 balls for the second wicket after Will Smeed departed in the first over.

Kohler-Cadmore top scored with 64 – his 42nd fifty in the format – while Lammonby made 35 and Tom Abell an unbeaten 36 as last season’s beaten finalists sealed their third victory in this season's competition with 12 balls to spare. Once again they look the team to beat in the south group, although strangely this was only their third win at the 1st Central County Ground in T20 history.

Somerset laid the foundations with good bowling at the start and end of the Sussex innings. The Sharks could only score 36 in the powerplay and lost three wickets, and they couldn’t regain momentum when skipper John Simpson, who top scored with 58, was dismissed in the 16th over, the first of four wickets to fall for 26 as Somerset’s seamers, led by Matt Henry (3 for 29) turned the screw.

Sussex had already lost openers Dan Hughes and Harrison Ward cheaply when Henry had James Coles caught at wide mid-on off a leading edge, leaving Sussex 29 for three in the sixth over.

Simpson led a spirited response, first in partnership with Tom Alsop with whom he added 63 off 35 balls. Somerset only bowled one over of spin by Lewis Goldsworthy which went for 13 and were in need of a breakthrough, which Henry provided in the 11th over when Alsop was caught behind off an under-edge for 23.

Simpson, promoted to No3 for Sussex this season, lodged the tenth T20 fifty of his career from 34 balls and found another useful ally in Tom Clark, who helped his captain add 41 for the fifth wicket after being dropped in the deep by Riley Meredith when he’d made just four.

Simpson was trying to clear the rope for the seventh time when he was caught at deep backward square off Craig Overton’s bouncer and when both Jack Carson and Clark failed to clear long on as the innings gently declined.

Somerset suffered an early blow in their reply when Smeed, having hit two boundaries, lost his off stump to Ollie Robinson. But Kohler-Cadmore and Lammonby displayed impressive power and placement in their ball striking. They took 68 from the powerplay to lay the platform for victory.

Lammonby (35) was caught at extra cover in the 11th over giving himself room to hit off-spinner Carson over the top and Kohler-Cadmore, who was dropped on 59, played on to Tymal Mills in the 14th over for 64 off 43 balls (7 fours, 3 sixes). But Somerset only needed a further 34 at that stage and two more Toms – Abell and Rew – got the job done with a minimum of fuss, Abell hitting Coles to the extra-cover boundary off the final ball of the 18th over to seal victory. 

Somerset's Tom Kohler-Cadmore, who top scored with 64, said: "Sussex are a strong side who have already played some good cricket in this season's competition will give us a lot of confidence. As a bowling attack we keep taking wickets so to restrict them to 166 was always going to give us a chance. The way Lammers (Tom Lammonby) has played in his last two innings has been great to see and from a personal point of view it was nice to get a score."

 

Sussex skipper Tymal Mills said: "The difference was the two power-plays. To be three down in ours set us back but then John Simpson got us to a score which we knew was maybe 20 runs short but at least it was something to defend. I've played a lot against TKC (Kohler-Cadmore) all around the world and he is a high-class player and it was hard to contain him at times. They had 60-odd after their powerplay and it was always going to be difficult for us after that." 

Leicestershire vs Durham, Match 24, Vitality Blast

By Jon Culley, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay

Leicestershire Foxes (4pts) 193-8 beat Durham (0pts) 187- 7 by six runs.



Leicestershire Foxes picked up a third Vitality Blast win in four matches to keep their place among the front-runners in the North Group, defeating Durham by six runs in a tight finish at the Uptonsteel County Ground.

Ben Raine took five for 23 against his former team-mates, with four wickets in his final two overs, but the Foxes still posted 193 for eight, their highest Blast score against Durham after skipper Louis Kimber made 51 off 27 balls and Lewis Hill 47 off 30.

Graham Clark’s 29 from 12 balls in the powerplay suggested Durham would make a fight of it but after collapsing from 65 for one to 94 for six they looked out of the game, Tom Scriven taking two for 25.

Yet Kasey Aldridge (44 not out) and Will Rhodes (43) shared a 91-run partnership that took Durham into the last over needing 13 to win before ex-Durham bowled Matt Salisbury kept his nerve to concede just six

Sol Budinger followed his stunning 15-ball half-century in the Foxes’ season-opener here last month with a first-ball duck as Zak Foulkes nipped one back to take off stump. Yet the home side, having been put in, recovered to be 65 for two in the powerplay, Jimmy Neesham conceding 17 and Aldridge 23 off their respective opening overs.

Rishi Patel, dropped on 30, fell for 36 (18 balls), caught at mid-off as Foulkes struck again with a slower ball, the Kiwi coming out of the powerplay with two for 19 from three overs.

Patel’s tally of two sixes was doubled by Kimber, whose muscular 27-ball 51 ended with a miscued pull to long–on to leave Leicestershire 98 for three in the 10th, before Shan Masood hit Raine straight to mid-off.

Leicestershire had their eyes on 200-plus as Hill led a 50-run partnership in 34 balls with Ben Cox but fell short thanks to two superb ‘death’ overs from Raine, the former Foxes all-rounder taking the pace off to claim two wickets in each at a cost of just 13 runs as Hill, Cox and Logan Van Beek failed to clear fielders before Scriven was stumped.

Durham’s batting powerplay almost mirrored the Foxes’ at 66 for two but lost two batters who looked in good touch as Graham Clark (29 from 13) and former Leicestershire skipper Colin Ackermann (18 from 11) fell to well-judged catches at mid-wicket and mid-off, the former having lofted Roman Walker for consecutive sixes.

The home bowlers then pinned their opponents down, going five overs without conceding a boundary, which may have played a part in Alex Lees and Ollie Robinson both finding fielders as Scriven and Kimber picked up wickets, with Durham’s woes quickly compounded as Raine mistimed Scriven to mid-on and Neesham’s reverse sweep looped straight to cover, 65 for one having turned to 94 for six.

But Aldridge and Rhodes were able not only to staunch the flow of wickets but build a partnership that almost threatened to pull off an unlikely victory after Van Beek had conceded two sixes in a final over costing 20. Yet Salisbury came up with what was required by his skipper in the last over, Durham’s last hope disappearing when Rhodes was run out with three balls remaining.

Kent vs Surrey, Match 25, VitalityBlast

Surrey 193 for seven (4 points) beat Kent Spitfires (0 points) by 42 runs.

 

Surrey have thrashed the Kent Spitfires by 42 runs in the Vitality Blast at Canterbury.

Surrey posted 193 for seven, Ollie Pope giving them a platform with 53 before Laurie Evans assaulted the death overs, making an unbeaten 62 from just 26 balls.

England’s Zak Crawley hit 45 but the Spitfires crashed from 109 for two to 118 for eight, losing six wickets in a cataclysmic 17-ball spell. Mitchell Santner took three for 28 and Kent eventually closed on 151 for nine.

Grant Stewart had Kent’s best bowling figures with 3-27.

Surrey openers Pope and Dom Sibley put on 83 for the first wicket, after being put in. The former dominated the strike, reaching 50 with a swept single off Matt Parkinson and hitting one six off Joe Denly over the retirement flats on the Old Dover Road.

The partnership wasn’t broken till the 10th over, when Pope chipped Parkinson to Denly at cover, but Kent then put the brakes on: Jason Roy was stifled and eventually holed out to Parkinson, getting caught on the boundary by Tom Rogers for four off ten balls.

Sibley went for 36, trying to ramp Stewart but hitting him straight to Parkinson at sort third man and Sam Curran went in the same over, driving limply to Denly for one.

Leaning missed a difficult chance to catch Evans off Stewart when he was on 15 and although the assault looked set to begin with five overs left when Santner dumped Wes Agar back over his head for six, he was out for 13 two balls later when he tried to repeat the trick and skied Agar to Rogers just inside the rope.

Surrey were only on 128 for 5 after 16 overs, but Evans hit Rogers for 29 in the 17th.

He reached his 50 from 20 balls, in the 19th over, before Ollie Sykes went for 15, run out by Leaning chasing a second. Chris Jordan then holed out to Stewart and was caught by Rogers for a duck.

The chase got off to a bad start when Daniel Bell-Drummond was run out for two by a direct hit from Curran in the second over.

Tawanda Muyeye made 26 from 20 balls but he swiped Santner to Sibley on the cow corner boundary.

While Crawley and Denly were at the crease, however, Kent looked a decent bet, until a catastrophic spell saw them lose three wickets in three balls.

At the end of the 13th Santner got Denly for 28, caught by Jordan at long off and Rogers for a golden duck, to a horrific shot that looped straight to Curran at midwicket.

Crawley was then run out chasing a second off the first ball of the 14th and Sam Billings went in the same over, hitting Smith straight to Jordan.

Over 4,537 were in the Spitfire Ground but the atmosphere had been killed stone dead, well before Stewart was out for two, hitting Curran to Roy at long off.

Curran then had Leaning caught by Sibley four and Wes Agar was run out by Jordan for five off his own bowling.

This left last-wicket duo Fred Klaassen and Parkinson with impossible task of hitting 49 off Jordan Clark’s final over.

Surrey’s Laurie Evans said:

“I’ve had a bit of a lean patch in the last year. Batting in the middle order’s not always consistent and it was nice to get a few (runs) under my belt when the team needed it really.

“Days like today are ahead of days when you get a score and lose the game. To get a score when the team need it and you come away with the win it does elevate your performance.

“I thin with our bowling attack, whenever you get around 200 we back ourselves. I knew that the slower balls in the middle of the pitch were not easy to hit so it was just about getting that feedback back and there’s a really nice pattern developing in the changing room where we’re starting to communicate a lot more than we have done in the past, so it’s a really nice feeling.

“We spoken a lot about doing the bits that aren’t necessarily the individual parts. It’s he basics of the game and sometimes we haven’t got that right and we’ve relied heavily on individual talent and so it’s about how we’ve come together as a team, even though we probably haven’t seen the results we’d have liked.

“We were close against Hampshire but probably felt we were about 20 short in all the games really and it just didn’t go our way. We were brilliant with the ball in Cardiff and got them to a total where we thought we’d get enough. As a batting unit we’ve been poor but we’ve played on lots of tricky wickets and that was a belter there tonight.”

 

Kent’s Adam Hollioake said: “Yeah, it's a funny one when you're chasing big totals like that. We had opportunities throughout that, innings when we were chasing to get.

"I felt that we had a chance to put ourselves in an opportunity to win. But those three wickets in space of half a dozen balls, that put an end to it. When you got a big total that you're chasing like that, if you have a collapse at any point or a couple, two or three bad overs, that can put an end to it. That's what it did tonight. Probably let them get a few too many with the ball, if we're being honest. And that, in the end, left us a bit short."

"Yeah, they did bowl and fielded well. I feel like we didn't quite get It went right. The two games we've played so far, we really pride ourselves on those first six overs. I think tonight we did probably just a bit let ourselves down a bit in those first six overs, and then they got a bit of momentum, and that probably led to the total that they got. Not that it wasn't gettable. I felt like it was, but we could have made it a little bit easier for ourselves.

Well, I was wrapped with the way we played at Bristol. I was really happy with the way we batted last night at Lord's. I thought that that total would have been very defendable. Then there was a little bit of blip tonight, I think. Like I said, that first six overs with the ball got Surrey, the momentum they needed, and then we were a little bit behind always trying to get back into the game.”

 

Hampshire vs Gloucestershire, Match 26, Vitality Blast

By Alex Smith, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay

Vitality Blast Men - Hampshire vs Gloucestershire at Utilita Bowl

Gloucestershire 119 lost to Hampshire Hawks 121/3 by seven wickets

John Turner led an outstanding Hampshire Hawks bowling performance to set up a third straight victory to start their Men’s Vitality Blast campaign.

Turner picked up three wickets before Chris Wood, Scott Currie and Benny Howell all snaffled two at under five runs an over to hold defending champions Gloucestershire to 119.

Opener Toby Albert, on the back of 54 and 28 not out, dominated the chase with a personal best 73 as Hawks strode to the winning line with 30 balls to spare.

Not since 2017 have Hampshire won their first three matches in a Blast season, while Gloucestershire have still never won a T20 match at Utilita Bowl.

On the same pitch which displayed over 700 runs in the double header last week, Gloucestershire chose to set a target but never got to grips with the conditions.

Plays and misses were more regular than seeing the ball come off the middle of the bat, especially in the powerplay – which returned just 37 runs and saw John Turner dismiss Miles Hammond and Cam Bancroft, the latter to a stunning catch at short fine by James Fuller.

Ollie Price was the only batter to pass 20, albeit as scratchily as all around, as the all-rounder struggled to find anyone to form a partnership in his 42.

For the visitor’s batting woes, the Hawks were sublime with the ball. They allowed just nine fours and a single six in the entire innings and applied constant pressure.

Turner added one to his powerplay tally to return three for 28, Currie was unhittable for a second night in a row for his two for 19, while wily duo Wood and Howell were also cheap for their two scalps.

The fielding was also exemplary. All 10 wickets were caught; four of which by Benny Howell in the covers, which was Hampshire’s joint highest in the Blast.

Chasing 119, Albert scooped Ajeet Singh Dale over the ropes in the second over, he copy and pasted the shot in the fifth over as Hawks found more successful ways to get out of moments of slow scoring.

The second of the sixes came in a 20-run over, which eliminated any nerves in the chase.

Albert had a third six split over the ropes on 29 before also being put down at mid off next ball, Jack Taylor didn’t make the same mistake when he held on to James Vince at extra cover.

Tom Prest didn’t make the most of getting a life dropped at extra cover – before hammering it to deep square.

But Albert refused to allow things to wobble controllably. He reached his fifth T20 half-century with his fourth maximum, and even though Joe Weatherley edged behind, Albert strode past his previous T20 high of 66.

There was still time for a Dewald Brevis huge six before Albert closed the game out with a pulled four.

Hampshire batter Toby Albert:

“We don’t normally start this well so it nice to get three wins on the board early. I wasn’t even playing in 2017 [when last time Hampshire won first three matches], I don’t think I was even on the academy.

“The wicket wasn’t as good as it was last Friday. 160 or 170 would have been a par score I think. Credit to our bowlers, they all bowled really well. Not one of them got hit and they all chipped in with wickets.

“After my first six balls it felt nice. Vincey is nice to bat with, he took the pressure off and told me to chill. I hit a few nice ones and a few not so nice ones but that is T20 cricket.

“With Lhuan-dre Pretorius not being here for the start it is a change of role going up to open. Back in 2021 when I first played I opened but I haven’t done it since. I still bat the same way and bat with freedom.

“We’ve come together as a group and everything is about winning games. We aren’t looking too far ahead, we just think how can we win the next game.”

 

Gloucestershire all-rounder Ollie Price:

“A combination of things went into that batting display. It wasn’t the easiest wicket and I think they bowled pretty well on it.

“We never got any momentum going. Every time we looked like we were going to build some we lost a wicket. At the end of the day that set us back and cost us.

“It was under par by quite a few. We thought 150 would keep us in it. We tried hard with the ball but Toby Albert played a nice knock. It was difficult to defend that score.

“We don’t need to panic because three games ago we won the thing. There is great talent and great options in this team. We can’t expect to turn a corner and be at 100 per cent, we need to look internally and make sure that come next Friday we show up and play like we can.”

Glamorgan vs Essex, Match 27, Vitality Blast

Glamorgan 185/4 def Essex 183/8. Glamorgan win by six wickets.

By Blake Bint, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.

Glamorgan 4 pts, Essex 0 pts.

A magnificent Carlson 93 led Glamorgan back to winning ways against a winless Essex at Sophia Gardens.

The captain’s knock was the catalyst in a successful chase of 184 and a six-wicket win after support from Will Smale with 43 as the opening pair set a strong platform for Carlson to continue throughout the innings.

Suffering their third defeat, Essex’s strong total set the visitors in a strong position led by Michael Pepper’s 30-ball 60 which included five sixes, his second half-century already in this competition.

After being put into bat with rain expected in the second innings, Essex started cautiously. Just three from the first over from Timm van der Gugten as the Australian-born Dutch international contained in the Powerplay despite earning no reward.

Adam Rossington struggled once again as the Essex batters have done in their opening two defeats. A dominant partnership from Dean Elgar and Pepper worth 58 set the Eagles well on their way for a big total at 93 for 2 at the halfway stage.

Glamorgan enjoyed quieter overs but the visitors always appeared on top, often scoring heavily during overs following contained ones. Jamie McIlroy’s 0 for 37 from three overs in overseas Hayden Kerr’s absence, and Ben Kellaway’s 2 for 26 from just 2 overs a big blow for the Welsh County.

Despite his expense, Kellaway would have the last laugh in Pepper’s powerful innings, after two consecutive sixes off the young finger-spinner, Kellaway had his victim caught off a left-arm delivery after dismissing the other key batter Dean Elgar after a six too.

The momentum continued to swing over by over with Matt Critchley not firing off the back of his half-century last time out and Charlie Allison had a quiet period before two sixes brought for a noteworthy cameo of 21 from 14.

Dan Douthwaite had bowled well once again with a simple wide-yorker death plan, only to be forced to re-bowl three deliveries in the final over, conceding 12 from it.

Glamorgan started in the innings as they knew they had to go on. A similar Powerplay to Essex as was the case against Surrey the other night, the downfall on that occasion being the starts from Smale and Carlson that didn’t kick on, the 91-partnership this time showed otherwise.

With Carlson firing with 32 from 19 while Smale had faced just three balls, the game was in an odd balance. The balance quickly landslided as the Glamorgan skipper showed no signs of slowing down, hitting exquisitely over extra-cover and his partner joining in on the action with slog-sweeps against spinners and the seam of Shane Snater alike.

Smale found himself a life in the ninth over but couldn’t take advantage as a near identical ball to that dropped at deep-cover by Elgar found his hands later in the same over.

Kellaway next to come continued his start, striking three luxurious boundaries before departing in a flash. While Carlson continued on the hunt for a second career T20 hundred, Essex crept in wickets at the other end, continuing to ensure a new batter remained at the crease.

Needing 42 from the final six overs, Carlson’s back-to-back sixes off Simon Harmer looked to ensure no way back for the Eagles until his untimely departure, leaving just 10 runs to be knocked off by Chris Cooke and Asa Tribe in nervy fashion after the captain’s innings was ended by a brilliant Pepper diving catch.

Derbyshire vs Nottinghamshire, Match 28, Vitality Blast

Nigel Gardner, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay.

 

A powercut could not deny Notts Outlaws victory over local rivals Derbyshire Falcons in an extraordinary Vitality Blast North Group match at the Central Co-op County Ground.

The Outlaws were 108 for 3, chasing the Falcons 162 for 9, when the floodlights went out midway through the 13th over.

When power was restored, the visitors were set a revised target of 120 and they easily sealed victory by seven wickets under the DLS method. 

Before the late drama, Aneurin Donald hammered 50 off 22 balls and Wayne Madsen passed 5,000 T20 runs in the Falcons total with Liam Patterson-White taking 3 for 20 and Dillon Pennington 3 for 40.

Lyndon James and Jack Haynes both scored 43 and after the lights came back on, Tom Moores and Freddie McCann saw the Outlaws home to consign the Falcons to a third defeat

The Falcons lost two wickets in the first three overs of the powerplay before Donald found his range in spectacular style.

He pulled Pennington for two consecutive sixes, the second smashing into the scoreboard, before swatting another maximum over cover to end an over which cost 22.

Daniel Sams was dispatched high over the mid-wicket ropes and Conor McKerr was slashed over cover for a fifth six as Donald roared to a 21 ball 50 which also included three fours.

His pyrotechnics took the Falcons to 65 for 2 at the end of the powerplay but he drove the next ball to long off and that sparked a mini collapse.

Samit Patel pulled McKerr to deep mid-wicket before Martin Andersson was bowled coming down the pitch to Liam Patterson-White to reduce the hosts to 77 for 5.

Ross Whiteley responded by sweeping Calvin Harrison and pulling Patterson-White for two sixes but then picked out deep mid-wicket.

Wayne Madsen and Brooke Guest added 41 from 30 balls but three wickets fell off the last three deliveries, one to a run out, to leave the Outlaws chasing 163. 

Patel was unable to take the field because of a calf injury which left the Falcons a bowler down but they started well with Ben Aitchison having Joe Clarke caught at slip in the first over.

James and Haynes regrouped and both cleared the ropes as the Outlaws moved to 48 for 1 at the end of the powerplay.

The pair took 15 from a Whiteley over and put on 81 from 54 balls before Haynes pulled Pat Brown to deep mid on in the 10th over.

James dispatched Andersson for six but next ball fell in identical fashion to Haynes before the ground was plunged into darkness.

The power came back on in time for the game to resume at 10.10pm with a revised target leaving the Outlaws to score 12 from 15 balls.

Tom Moores and Freddie McCann ensured there were no more twists before Pat Brown bowled a wide to put the lights out on the Falcons fading hopes.

 

Outlaws all-rounder Lyndon James said: "I don't think I've ever been involved in a fixture where the power's gone off so that was very strange but we said in the dressing room it was a very professional performance.

"The bowlers set the tone and then we carried that through to chase it down and get over the line.

"We all heard that National Grid were saying the power wouldn't come back on until 11pm so we thought the game was done but for those who had to bat or were batting they just had to stay switched on.

"Once the lights came back on we knew the situation pretty quickly and we backed Tom (Moores) and Freddie (McCann) to get us over the line."

 

Derbyshire opener Aneurin Donald said: "The pressure is mounting a little bit and that's kind of due to ourselves. We haven't really put a perfect game together or anything close.

"There's been some real  bright spots but it's a case of backing it up and we seem to be losing phases in games by too much. We need to get ourselves into gear pretty sharpish.

"I've seen the power go off for a couple of minutes but never anything like that and we didn't think we were going to get back on. We were praying Duckworth was going to pull in our favour but it didn't as much as we would have liked although ultimately we lost the game before then."

 

Warwickshire vs Yorkshire, Match 29, Vitality Blast

By Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay

Warwickshire Bears, 168 for 4, beat Yorkshire 164 for 7, by six wickets

Warwickshire Bears condemned Yorkshire to a third successive Vitality Blast defeat as they handed them a six-wicket beating at Edgbaston.

The Bears registered their first win of the campaign after Yorkshire, put in, totalled 164 for seven, having lurched from 139 for two to 146 for seven in 17 balls. Dawid Malan (69 not out, 48 balls) and James Wharton (39, 23) set a solid foundation, but the middle and lower orders were scalped by the spinners as Danny Briggs, Jake Lintott and Moeen Ali each took two wickets.

Alex Davies (65, 45) and Tom Latham (44, 35) then added 103 for the first wicket and though Matt Milnes (three for 23) induced a wobble, the Bears reached 168 for four with six balls to spare,

A heavily depleted Yorkshire team, without Jonny Bairstow (calf strain), Will Sutherland (broken toe) and George Hill (Lions duty), was given a lively start by Will Luxton (24, 15) who hoisted Dan Mousley for six but was bowled trying to do the same to Briggs.

Adam Lyth swung Moeen’s third ball to deep mid-wicket but Malan and Wharton quietened the crowd by clearing the ropes five times in a stand of 74 in 43 balls. Malan posted a 32-ball half-century and Yorkshire were motoring nicely but then hit a big pothole (almost as big as some of those on the A435 south of Birmingham) as three wickets fell for one run in eight balls.

Lintott had Wharton caught at long on and Matt Revis caught behind sweeping at what would have been a wide. When Dom Bess clipped Moeen to mid-wicket, his and Revis’ ducks had occupied an entire over for no runs.

The collapse continued as Briggs ousted Harry Duke lbw and Matt Milnes embarked upon a single in which Malan was not interested and left Hasan Ali with a simple run out in his follow through. Malan, starved of the strike as the clatter unfollowed, scored just eight runs in the last five overs and walked off two runs short of 10,000 in T20 cricket

Bears openers Latham and Davies took a measured approach to the small target and put 50 on the board in 35 balls and 100 in 65. Revis’ unproductive day continued when he came on for the eighth over and Davies swung his first and third balls for six.

The pair set a new record T20 opening stand for the Bears against Yorkshire, surpassing the 55 by Ed Pollock and Ian Bell at Edgbaston in 2018, before Latham heaved Bess to deep mid-wicket. Mousley, back in the Bears’ Blast team for the first time this season, and Davies fell in the same Milnes over to leave two new batters to find 37 from 35 balls.

Those new batters were Moeen Ali and Sam Hain, who arrived at the crease with 11,854 career T20 runs between them. Yorkshire were still in the game when Moeen holed out to Milnes with 18 needed from two overs but Hain (24 not out, 12 balls) smote two fours and a six in the first of those overs to see his side home.     

Bears captain Alex Davies said:

"It was nice to get a win but we were all staying calm down there in the dressing room. A couple of years ago we lost the first two games but still topped the group so we know what's possible. We have a couple of guys coming back into the team and adding the likes of Hasan Ali and Dan Mousley is brilliant. Dan bats three, bowls in the powerplay and bowls at the death so it's like three players in one.

"It got a little bit closer than we have liked at the end but a lot of credit goes to the bowlers. They were 120 off 13 and we were staring down the barrel but we thought that, without being disrespectful to them, they were a bit light on batting without Bairstow and Sutherland so we knew if we got them four or five down they might just fall over. Once that happened we just had to keep Malan off strike and we did that really well, squeezing them at the other end and picking up the odd wicket here and there.

"We would like to have finished it with one or two more overs to spare. I misread the length and knew I was out as soon as I hit it but that's the beauty of having Sam Hain, Moeen Ali and Ed Barnard coming in and they saw the job through."

 

Yorkshire captain Dawid Malan said:

 

“It was disappointing again. Without trying to big it up, I feel we’re close to being in good positions in games and are having a little three or four-over spell where we either mess it up with the bat like we did here and at Worcester or in the field like we did first game.

“There are good signs that we are doing a lot of things well. But we’re just not doing it for long enough. 

“When you play against good teams, if you take your foot off the gas for three or four overs, they take advantage. That was a good example of it tonight.”

(Opening partnership change) “We planned to have Jonny Bairstow available, but he pulled up a bit sore with a calf. We’ll assess him for Sunday and hope he’s ok.

“With the match-up with Moeen and Mousley, we were looking at batting a right-hander up top to see if we could mess their plans up a bit. I thought Luxy (Luxton) played exceptionally well.”