Northamptonshire 203 for six (Breetzke 76) beat Lancashire 210 for 9 (Dockrell 45, White 3-16) by 4 wickets
It was the guests’ first T20 victory on this floor in eight makes an attempt however nobody may doubt that it was completely deserved.
Reply to the house aspect’s 210 for 9, during which Jack White took three for 16, the Steelbacks sealed their win with eight balls to spare, the guests surviving a late tumble of wickets earlier than Ashton Agar’s six off Liam Livingstone settled issues.
Lancashire scored 54 runs of their Powerplay overs however misplaced three wickets in doing so, all of them falling to White. Luke Wells was caught at deep sq. leg by Breetzke for 10, Phil Salt holed out to David Willey at mid-off for 9 and, after whacking 4 fours and a six in his 12-ball 24, Keaton Jennings skied a return catch to the bowler.
Livingstone and Matty Hurst then launched an efficient counter-attack, Livingstone hitting three sixes in his first 18 balls and Lightning reached the midpoint of their 20-over allotment on 93 for 3. However the T20 England worldwide’s enjoyable was ended by Freddie Heldreich, who had him caught at deep midwicket by Ricardo Vasconcelos for 36 and Hurst adopted within the subsequent over, caught at deep backward sq. leg by Ben Sanderson off Ravi Bopara for 30.
Nevertheless, Lancashire have been nonetheless effectively positioned on 115 for 5 when that wicket fell and their momentum was maintained by George Dockrell and Steven Croft, the latter passing 5,000 T20 runs for the Crimson Rose when he reached 5.
The pair placed on 44 in 23 balls earlier than Croft skied Willey to Bopara and each Chris Inexperienced and Tom Hartley quickly fell in successive overs to go away Dockrell and Luke Wooden to make sure Lancashire set a formidable goal. The Irish worldwide gave Vasconcelos his second catch and Sanderson his second wicket when 5 wanting his fifty however the house aspect’s 201 for 9 seemed greater than aggressive, albeit on a superb batting wicket.
White was probably the most profitable Steelbacks bowler with three for 16. Willey and Sanderson collected two apiece and Bopara took one for 26 from his three helpful overs.
Northamptonshire’s pursuit of their goal in a way that was alternately orthodox and ingenious however which put all Lancashire’s bowlers to the sword. Vasconcelos and Breetzke hit 13 fours and two sixes of their Powerplay overs, on the finish of which Northamptonshire have been 85 with out loss and completely positioned to safe their very important victory.
Breetzke reached his fifty off 19 balls with seven fours and two sixes, an astonishing show of calculated hitting that helped make sure the guests’ hundred got here up within the eighth over, Two balls later, although, Vasconcelos was caught on the third try by Matty Hurst at brief third man for 36 off Wells to finish his 102 stand with Breetzke.
And Wells struck once more in his subsequent over when he eliminated Breetzke, who pulled him to Inexperienced at deep midwicket after making 76 off 31 balls with seven fours and 5 sixes. Saif Zaib then fell lbw to Livingstone for 4 however Bopara and Willey’s shrewd 59-run stand took Northamptonshire to inside 13 runs of their purpose.
The skipper was caught by Croft off Dockrell for 26 and Bopara fell lbw to Mahmood for 36 however Agar and Gus Miller noticed their aspect house. Wells completed with two for 23.
