Hants Beat Durham To Reach 11th T20 Blast Finals Day

Vitality Blast quarter-final, Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street

Hampshire 221-8 (20 overs): Albert 68, Cartwright 61, Lynn 51; Potts 2-35

Durham 195-6 (20 overs): Robinson 60*; Howell 2-28

Hampshire won by 26 runs

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Opener Toby Albert continued his superb shape successful nan T20 Blast to thief Hampshire Hawks hit Durham by 26 runs and scope Finals Day for nan 11th time.

Albert was nan fifth-highest run-scorer successful nan group stage, pinch 472 runs, and he picked up wherever he near off, making 68 successful 37 balls pinch 4 sixes.

Opening partner Chris Lynn, pinch 51 successful 27 deliveries, and past Hilton Cartwright, 61 successful 31 balls, saw Hampshire heap up 221-8, nan highest people by an guidance astatine Chester-le-Street.

Faced pinch making their highest T20 chase, Durham were ever struggling and could only reply pinch 195-6, pinch Ollie Robinson making a precocious 60 from 33 balls.

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