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Glamorgan 44 all out. That's a worse day than England had.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Yorks v Lancs. Might be a chance of an upset here if Yorks don't run out of wickets.

Close, but not close enough.

Miles Hammond is the quiet star of the day for me for his 63 off 35 in Gloucestershire's win over Middlesex.

Has had an underwhelming season thus far but this could kick start some good form.

Durham knock off 159 in 11.1 overs


Durham!

I feel faint

I see that Notts have decided that they like the look of Surrey's strategy of picking every fit bowler available.

st_brendy wrote:I see that Notts have decided that they like the look of Surrey's strategy of picking every fit bowler available.

And they lose by 21 runs to Leicester. Leicester...

It's almost as if having a disregard for your batting is a bad idea in white ball cricket.

everybody knows it's a bowlers game

Bit annoying that the women's cricket is on sky ahead of the blast this afternoon. Somerset - Sussex would have been a good one to watch.

GG - Amir Sohail wrote:Bit annoying that the women's cricket is on sky ahead of the blast this afternoon. Somerset - Sussex would have been a good one to watch.

If I was just a Sky Cricket subscriber, Friday and today would have really annoyed me...

Well you could say that Surrey agreed with me that Tom Curran shouldn't be batting at 6... Only Surrey saw it that he should be batting at 5 instead.

Absolutely trashed by Kent. 7 overs, 15 overs, 20 overs. If Finch is your only batter, it hardly matters.

Lot of praise being heaped on Wayne Madsen yesterday due to the fact that Derbyshire won however I was very impressed with Northamptonshire's Josh Cobb.

This is, what, the 17th season of county t20. There can't have been many better balanced sides than this Lancashire side.

Six front line bowlers. Split nicely between three seamers, and three spinners; between three all-rounders and three non-all-rounders. And with two of those all-rounders being batting all-rounders. And if they ever do need to look beyond those six, for whatever reason, another couple of other part-time bowling options are tucked away too. But basically it's about the main six. Spinners who can squeeze and take wickets in the middle. Seamers who can operate at both ends of the innings.

Excellent, mobile fielders. I don't really see too many old-timers, or guys who need hiding away out of the line of fire.

A strong top six, with a couple more underneath as support. It might not be the absolute best batting line-up the competition has ever seen (just off the top of my head, I immediately think of that Notts side with Hales, Lumb, Taylor, Hussey, Samit, Read etc, and that Somerset side with Tresco, Kieswetter, Buttler, Pollard, Trego, Hildreth etc). But it is very, very strong - with a number of guys who can regularly hit a big ball.

Overseas players who really contribute and add value, whilst adding bags of worldwide t20 experience.

I can't fail but to be impressed. I can't see any holes. And if Buttler is available for Finals Day, assuming Lancs make it (he'd presumably come in for Bohannon), then it would take something monumental to stop them.

ABDV unable to get the strike for the final over, and is denied a 100.

Gloucs concede 6 penalty runs, and Sussex needing 14 off the last over becomes 8 off the last over.

Another tie for Yorks. Tied a couple in the fifty overs too. Feels unusual.