T20 Blast round-up: Patel hits 104 in tie, while Bears and Surrey win – BBC Sport

Yorkshire Vikings – captained by Dawid Malan in the absence of Shan Masood -suffered a setback in their push for a place in the knock-out stages of the Blast as they lost to Durham by three runs at the Riverside.

Graham Clark played-on to spinner Dan Moriarty (2-26) on 49 in the home side’s 170-6, but Adam Lyth’s 54 off 40 balls ensured Yorkshire stayed in contention – but needing eight off the final over, Ben Dwarshuis yielded only four and ended the game with a dot ball as they finished on 167-7.

Derbyshire skipper Samit Patel was hoping to “prove Notts wrong” on his return to Trent Bridge and took 2-24 as the home side totalled 173-5 – but he was bowled by Olly Stone for four as the Falcons mustered 165-8 in reply to lose by eight runs after Aneurin Donald had begun their chase with five sixes in his 52 off 26 balls.

In South Group, there were two sun-stopped-play interruptions as Essex attempted to chase a target of 157 against Kent at Canterbury, with the batters finding it hard to sight the ball clearly.

But once conditions improved, Michael Pepper – who made 101 against Middlesex earlier in the competition – brought up a 29-ball 50 with four off Matt Parkinson

He struck three sixes and eight fours before he was caught off Nathan Gilchrist for 76 with four still needed but Matt Critchley hit the winning runs from the final ball of the 15th over as they reached 157-5 to win by five wickets.

But there was no help from the weather for Glamorgan at The Oval as only one batter – Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne – reached 20 as Surrey quicks Gus Atkinson (3-19) and Sean Abbott (3-25) made the most of a pitch with a little bit of zip.

Faced with a target of just 108, Surrey did the job in just nine overs for the loss of Dan Lawrence, who was caught of debutant Chris Sole for 27.

Dom Sibley and Laurie Evans hit two sixes each in an unbroken partnership of 55 – Sibley finishing with 44 off 26 balls and Evans 31 off just 13.

Somerset shrugged off the early loss of Will Smeed, to post a score of 188-4 against Gloucestershire at Bristol, with opener Tom Banton making 79 off 53 balls.

They looked favourites when spinner Jack Leach (2-36) had Beau Webster caught to leave the home side on 108-5 in the 14th over – but Ben Charlesworth and Ollie Price rose to the challenge with an unbroken stand of 82.

Price hit four sixes in his 43 not out off just 15 balls, while Charlesworth made 36 off 19, to see them to 190-5 with eight balls remaining and inflict holders Somerset’s third defeat – the club’s second highest T20 chase.

In the final game of the day, Sussex moved up to second place with a seven-run victory over Hampshire at the Utilita Bowl after posting 184-8, despite figures of 3-32 by Michael Neser.

James Vince hit his first T20 half-century of the summer before being bowled by James Coles for 53 as he added 88 with Joe Weatherley.

Needing an unlikely 25 off the last over, Weatherley hit four successive fours off Danny Lamb to reach 68 not out off 47 balls, but a bye was all they could manage from the final two deliveries and finished on 177-3.