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SOM vs SUR 112th Match, T20 Blast 2023
SUR
190-920.0
Somerset won by 18 runs 🏆
SOM
20.0208-5
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We hope you enjoyed our coverage of this T20 Blast game. It is time for me, Sourya Chowdhury to say goodbye on mine and my fellow commentator Megh Mandaliya and scorer Chandan Kr. Singh's behalf. Good night.
2:05 am IST, 8:36pm (30.6.23) | Sourya: Somerset have prevailed over Surrey in an exciting, high-scoring T20 Blast clash here at the Kennington Oval by 18 runs. Chasing an imposing 209 to ensure progress, Surrey were pegged back immediately by some fine pace bowling from Craig Overton (1/26) and Kiwi quick Matt Henry (4/30). Sunil Narine was promoted to three to up the rate and he clobbered a few to keep them in the hunt and they did reach 50 at the end of the powerplay with Will Jacks finding his range as the overs progressed as well as his timing.
But they were always playing catch-up and with Ish Sodhi (3/33) getting rid of the high-flying Will Jacks (50 off 26), and Jamie Smith with consecutive deliveries, the screws had well and truly been turned on them. They were playing catch-up from that point on with the required rate creeping up all the time. Sam Curran (47 off 36) and Jamie Overton (30 off 15), clobbered some very clean sixes, but none of them stayed there long enough to get them over the line. Curran fell to Matt Henry trying to up the rate, while Overton had perished clean bowled to Ben Green.
Somerset also fielded and caught amazingly, something Surrey struggled with during their stint on the field. In the end, the home side finished on 190/9, well and truly beaten in a game of titans.
Earlier, Somerset, already in the next round, were put into bat first and were propelled by an excellent innings by their keeper Tom Banton (84 off 44), who timed as well as blasted the ball to all corners of the ground. He was ably supported by Tom Kohler-Cadmore who made 39 off 23. Meanwhile, Ben Green, who also bowled a decent spell, improvised his way to a 40 to help his side to over 200 despite some great late bowling from Chris Jordan and Sam Curran.
In the end, their total was more than enough for the victory.
OVER 20
Surrey
190/9
Chris Jordan
23(11)
Tom Lawes
3(5)
Josh Davey
0-56(4.0)
19.6 J Davey to C Jordan
6 SIXX! Chris Jordan finishes the contest with a maximum but it doesn't matter. The table-toppers Somerset has defeated Surrey quite comfortably by 18 runs. Overpitched and wide of off-stump, Jordan bends low, uses his wrists superbly, and clobbers that to the off-side as the ball sails over the deep backward point region for half a dozen. This is Somerset's fourth consecutive victory in the tournament.
19.5 J Davey to T Lawes
1 Fuller on the middle stump, Lawes makes room and propels that to long-off for a single.
19.4 J Davey to C Jordan
1 Much fuller on the leg stump line, Jordan only manages to dig that out to long-on for a single.
19.3 J Davey to T Lawes
1b Short of a length delivery on the top of middle and leg stump with the pace being taken off, Lawes looks to hoick that across the line but misses that to the keeper, who also fumbles and allows a single off byes.
19.2 J Davey to C Jordan
1 Fuller darted on the middle stump, Jordan drills that down to long-off for a single.
19.2 J Davey to C Jordan
WD WIDE! Yorker again outside the offside tramline, Jordan makes room and lets it go to the keeper.
19.1 J Davey to C Jordan
0 Over the wicket. A well-executed yorker on the leg stump line, Jordan tries to squeeze that away but misses that onto his pads for a dot.
OVER 19
Surrey
179/9
Tom Lawes
2(3)
Chris Jordan
15(7)
Ben Green
1-42(4.0)
18.6 B Green to T Lawes
2 Good length and outside off with the pace being taken off, Lawes shuffles across and guides that into the gap between backward point and short third man for a couple of runs to end the over. 30 runs required from the final over now.
18.5 B Green to C Jordan
1 Fuller and outside off, Jordan toe ends the heave in front of long-on for a single.
18.4 B Green to C Jordan
0 Good length outside off with the pace being taken off, Jordan looks to heave across the line but misses that to the keeper.
18.3 B Green to C Jordan
2 Pitched up outside off, Jordan crunches that to the right of sweeper cover for a couple of runs.
18.2 B Green to C Jordan
6 SIXX! In the arc of Jordan and dispatched for a maximum. Overpitched on the middle stump line, Jordan gets on the front foot and clobbers that across the line as the ball sails over the cow corner region for a maximum.
18.1 B Green to C Jordan
0 Over the wicket. Fuller and drifting into the leg stump line, Jordan shuffles across and looks to whip that away but misses that to the keeper.
OVER 18
Surrey
168/9
Tom Lawes
0(2)
Chris Jordan
6(2)
Matt Henry
4-30(4.0)
17.6 M Henry to T Lawes
0 Fuller darted on the leg stump, Lawes bunts that down the ground for a dot to end the over.
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