Tom Banton 84, Matt Henry four-for keep Somerset clear at the top

Somerset 208 for five (Banton 84) beat Surrey 190 for 9 (Jacks 50, Henry 4-30) by 18 runs

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 discipline. 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. These drops have been to price Surrey 70 runs.

Somerset misplaced Will Smeed within the fourth over when he did not clear mid-on off Sean Abbott, however Banton and Kohler-Cadmore ticked alongside at practically 12 an over for the following 5 overs, Kohler-Cadmore producing the shot of the innings when he reverse-swept Sunil Narine over the quick boundary on the gasholder aspect 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. However when Ben Inexperienced, twice, and Banton lofted Tom Lawes over the leg-side boundary within the fifteenth over Somerset discovered momentum once more. Banton seemed to be heading in the right direction for 100 however aiming to clear the leg aspect once more he bought a vanguard and Sam Curran took a easy catch off his personal bowling.

Inexperienced 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 a superb catch out of the air at long-on and Sodhi pinned Smith lbw together with his subsequent ball. If that wasn’t unhealthy 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 Inexperienced, the competitors’s main wicket-taker, snared his twenty seventh sufferer when he bowled Overton firstly of the fifteenth over. A goal of 67 off the final 5 overs was past Surrey however no less than a crowd of 25,000 had 19 sixes and practically 400 runs to get pleasure from.