Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards - Vitality Blast 2023 May 28th - All Matches

Here are the Vitality Blast May 28th 2023 - Scores, Match Reports, Results and Scorecards for all the matches being played today.

 

 

North Group

 

May 28: Yorkshire Vikings v Durham (Headingley, Leeds)

Match Summary

Yorkshire vs Durham, North Group, Vitality Blast

Yorkshire 189/7 (20 ov)

Durham 217/3 (20 ov)

Result - Durham won by 28 runs

 

Alex Lees’ brilliant career-best 90 helped secure back-to-back Vitality Blast wins for Durham and extended Yorkshire’s winless start to the season with a 28-run victory at Headingley.

Captain Lees, pushing for a return to England’s Test side, blended timing with power against his former club to lead Durham to a commanding total of 217 for three after being asked to bat.

Yorkshire started well in their pursuit of that target but lost wickets at regular intervals to slip to a third Blast defeat as their wait for a first win in all competitions since last August goes on.

Matthew Fisher, who failed to defend 19 off the final over in Yorkshire’s defeat to Worcestershire on Friday, began in much better fashion with the new ball.

Fisher found early movement and, after starting with a wide, had Graham Clark - who scored an unbeaten century last time out - caught behind for a duck.

Lees and Michael Jones set about rebuilding patiently, moving the score to 15 for one after three overs before accelerating. 

Lees took 16 from the fourth over before three sixes in the space of six balls helped carry Durham to a solid powerplay score of 57 for one. 

Jones launched Dom Bess for another six down the ground but the spinner hit back to make the crucial breakthrough.

Jones went aerial again but miscued only as far as Adam Lyth, who took a simple catch to remove the right-hander for 43 and end the partnership at 91 in the 10th over.

Lees was undeterred and launched Bess for consecutive sixes to bring up an effortless half-century from 29 balls.

His new partner Ollie Robinson also hit two sixes to help put Durham in a strong position at 155 for two with five overs remaining.

Yorkshire were unable to stem the flow of runs and the 17th over from Jordan Thompson went for 15, featuring a superb ramped six from Robinson.

The former Kent batter reached his fifty from just 25 balls but Lees perished with eight balls left in the innings, brilliantly caught on the boundary by Jafer Chohan off Ben Mike.

Lees had surpassed his previous career-best T20 score of 77, hitting six fours and four sixes in a superb innings.

Robinson smashed Thompson for a huge six in the final over to finish with his own career-best 64 from 30 balls and kick Durham on to 217 for three - with the visitors taking 62 from the final five overs

Adam Lyth got Yorkshire’s chase off to a flyer. The left-hander smashed three fours and two sixes in seven balls before skying Brandon Glover to Robinson for 24.

Pakistan batter Shan Masood fell for six in the next over, clipping Bas de Leede straight to mid-wicket, but Yorkshire’s attacking intent remained as Dawid Malan picked up the baton to reach 49 for two after just four overs.

At 63 for two at the end of the powerplay, Yorkshire looked well set but Durham spinner Nathan Sowter claimed the key wicket of Malan in the next over.

The England batter tried to clear the boundary over cover but was well held by Clark to fall for 26.

Yorkshire were three runs ahead of where Durham were at the halfway mark, before Matthew Revis was run out for 14 in the 11th over as the visitors’ spinners began to take control.

Jordan Thompson injected some impetus with a couple of sixes, with Jonny Tattersall also clearing the ropes to leave Yorkshire needing 78 from the last five overs.

But it was a tough task that proved beyond the Vikings. 

Tattersall was dismissed for 39 from 33 balls, well caught by Ashton Turner off Ben Raine, who also ended Thompson’s impressive cameo on 33.

David Wiese showcased his power with two sixes in the final over before he became Raine’s third scalp, as Durham backed up their thrashing of Northamptonshire with another commanding win.

 

South Group

 

May 28: Surrey v Sussex Sharks (The Oval, London)

Match Summary

Surrey vs Sussex, South Group, Vitality Blast

Surrey 148/10 (19.3 ov)

Sussex 149/5 (19.5 ov)

Result - Sussex won by 5 wickets

Tom Alsop’s brave unbeaten 51, and a classy 28-ball 48 from Michael Burgess, swept Sussex Sharks to a tenacious, against-the-odds Vitality Blast five-wicket victory against Surrey at the Kia Oval – with just one ball to spare.

After bowling out the hosts for 148 on a used pitch, Sussex looked out of it when they struggled to 57 for four after Sunil Narine, who took two for 18 from his four overs, produced a wicket maiden in the 11^th over.

But then Burgess joined Alsop in a match-winning partnership of 77 in eight overs that shocked Surrey, who had won their first two Blast fixtures of the season, and propelled the Sharks to the brink of an opening South Group win.

Burgess, having just deposited Dan Worrall for a huge six into almost the second tier of the JM Finn Stand, was brilliantly caught at short third man from the last ball of the 18^th over – slashing a low full toss to Nathan Barnwell, the substitute fielder, who hung on gallantly.

That left Sussex needing 16 from the last two overs, and then ten from the last after Sam Curran bowled a tight penultimate over, and Alsop was equal to the task of taking ten off Tom Lawes.

Left-hander Alsop hit the second ball through extra cover for three and, with James Coles taking a single from the next, levelled the scores by hammering Lawes’ fourth ball back past the bowler for a lofted boundary.

Alsop then pulled Lawes over a ring field for the victory-clinching single and his 42-ball anchor knock included legside sixes off Cameron Steel and Worrall and four fours besides.

But it had been Burgess, on-loan from Warwickshire and originally a product of Surrey’s youth system before joining Sussex for three seasons from 2017, who played the innings of the game. He took the lion’s share of the 19 runs that came from the 15^th over, off Worrall, including a remarkable square cut six that landed on the boundary rope.

That left Sussex needing 52 from the final five overs and Burgess, in all, hit two sixes and five fours as the Sharks shook off injury setbacks that included opener Ali Orr having to bat with a runner – but still hitting 24 from 15 balls – after hurting his knee trying to take a boundary catch early in the match.

Narine earlier hit three sixes in a quickfire 29 but he then became the first of Ravi Bopara’s three victims in a canny spell of three for 18 from the 12^th, 14^th and 16^th overs, and Surrey’s innings rather fizzled out as their last four wickets tumbled for just two runs in nine balls.

Surrey at first took the attack to a Sussex bowling unit shorn of both their overseas players, Pakistan’s Shadab Khan and Australia’s Nathan McAndrew, who were rested as a precaution following their unfortunate on-field collision in the Sharks’ opening game defeat against Somerset at Hove.

Laurie Evans took two legside fours off George Garton in the second over and then lifted Coles’ left-arm spin for a six into the back tier of the Bedser Stand in a third over that brought 16 runs as Will Jacks also plundered two fours.

But Tymal Mills, introduced for the fifth over, made the breakthrough when Evans, making room to carve, lost his off stump on 23 and Jacks fell for 13 – splicing Henry Crocombe’s fast-medium to mid wicket – as Surrey ended the six-over powerplay on 42 for two.

A quite brilliant low diving catch at backward point by Coles cut Sam Curran’s innings short on just two, the fielder scooping the ball up right-handed as the England all-rounder slashed Archie Lenham’s leg spin hard for what he must have thought would be a boundary.

Narine’s mid-innings aggression helped to take Surrey to 82 for three by the halfway point as he and Tom Curran added 53 for the fourth wicket but then Bopara began to produce his own particular brand of medium-paced magic as Narine lofted to long on and Curran (23) skied to extra cover, where Alsop took a fine running catch over his shoulder.

Jamie Smith did bludgeon Lenham for two straight fours but on 19 was bowled by Bopara as he tried to sweep a straight ball after moving outside his off stump.

Mills returned to help his captain turn the screw on Surrey’s lower order and Jamie Overton was bowled for 13 by a thunderbolt that hit his off stump and both Steel and Lawes were run out trying to come back for a second run – Lawes being dismissed without facing a ball.

The innings ended with three balls unused, Jordan Clark swinging and missing at Garton to go for just eight and leaving Surrey short of a par total and guilty of losing their way against some excellent Sussex out-cricket.

Tom Clark was Sussex’s first wicket to fall, caught at extra cover off Worrall for 9 and after Orr was taken at backward point off Lawes the Sharks reply stuttered further when Bopara edged Narine’s third ball behind and the West Indian mystery spinner also had Garton caught by keeper Smith for 7.

Alsop and Burgess, though, held their nerve in front of a big crowd and, with Narine bowled out at the end of the 14^th over, an equation of 71 from six was achieved. Their stand, meanwhile, was a fifth wicket T20 record for Sussex against Surrey.

 

Sussex’s Tom Alsop said: “Michael [Burgess] played a great innings. He came in at a difficult time but had great energy and put the pressure straight back on them. It was an exceptional knock by him.

“Sunil Narine is a world-class spinner and we stuttered a bit in mid-innings against him. But Michael picked up the intensity and we managed to get a partnership going. To come here and win is a big boost for us, especially without our two overseas players. It’s just good that both Shadab [Khan] and Nathan [McAndrew] are OK after their collision the other night in the game against Somerset.

“I thought we also fought back well in the field today, after they had got a reasonable start to their innings. The pitch was a little bit tricky, as we also saw when they batted, but I think it is more a case of credit to our bowlers for the way they restricted them to that total.”

Surrey’s Laurie Evans said: “We were a little bit short with the bat and I don’t think we assessed conditions as well as we should have done after being asked to bat first.

“They came hard at us early on, despite Ali Orr batting with an injury that needed him to have a runner, but we stuck to our task really well in the field and we nearly nicked it in the end.

“It’s disappointing to lose today after starting the group matches with two wins but there are a lot of good things happening at this club at the moment and we believe we are due a white-ball trophy at some stage so hopefully that can be this summer if we keep working hard.”

May 28: Somerset v Glamorgan (County Ground, Taunton)

Match Summary

Somerset vs Glamorgan, South Group, Vitality Blast

Somerset 154/6 (14.5 ov)

Glamorgan 153/10 (19.4 ov)

Result - Somerset won by 4 wickets

Big-hitting Tom Banton posted a high-octane half century as Somerset comfortably beat Glamorgan by four wickets in an entertaining Vitality Blast contest at the Cooper Associates Ground in Taunton.

Banton dominated an opening stand of 69 with Will Smeed and went on to make 54 from 28 balls, his highest score of the campaign, to help propel the cider county to victory with 5.1 overs to spare in front of a near full-house crowd.

Somerset won the toss, elected to field and produced a disciplined performance to bowl Glamorgan out for 153 in 19.4 overs, thanks in large part to Roelof ven der Merwe's return of 3-24 from four overs. He was well backed-up by Lewis Gregory and Peter Siddle, who took 2-14 and 2-29 respectively, while Craig Overton held three catches.

Former Somerset batsman Eddie Byrom top-scored with 43 and added 50 for the second wicket with Kiran Carlson, who made 31, but Glamorgan then lost nine wickets for 82 runs and failed to bat out their overs.

Now top of the table following Surrey's defeat at the hands of Sussex, Somerset remain the only side in the South Group to boast a 100 per cent record, while Glamorgan have won one and lost one under new head coach Mark Alleyne.

Put into bat on a good pitch, Glamorgan made a decent start thanks to Byrom and Carlson, who staged an aggressive half century stand in 5.5 overs. Perhaps with a point to prove against his former county, Byrom adopted a long-handle approach, hitting Matt Henry for a six and two fours in three successive balls in the second over. He then deposited Siddle over mid-wicket for another towering six as the Welsh side achieved lift-off.

Overton served up a wicket maiden to remove Sam Northeast for two, held by Tom Lammonby at third man, but Carlson looked the part as he claimed a brace of sixes off the same bowler, one a scoop over fine leg, the other a more orthodox affair high over long-on.

Glamorgan were 57-1 at the end of the six-over powerplay, but came under pressure as spinner van der Merwe and seamer Ben Green turned off the hitherto ready supply of boundaries in the seventh and eighth overs. Attempting to sweep van der Merwe, Byrom missed and was trapped lbw for a 28-ball 42, his innings adorned by 5 fours and 2 sixes. Gregory then struck with his first delivery, Carlson caught in the deep by Tom Abell having scored 31 from 19 balls, with 3 fours and 2 sixes.

Taking full advantage of their double breakthrough, Somerset applied the squeeze, Gregory persuading the dangerous Colin Ingram to hit to deep mid-wicket for 13 and van der Merwe having Ben Kellaway held at long-on as Glamorgan slipped to 100-5 in the 13th over.

Chris Cooke carved 18 runs from 16 balls to threaten a Welsh revival, only to fall to the returning Henry, who had him caught at long-on. When Dan Douthwaite was dismissed in identical fashion off the bowling of van der Merwe, the visitors were 129-7 in the 17th over and in danger of falling short.

Billy Root attempted to take matters into his own hands by raising 18 from 16 balls, but perished at the hands of Siddle, while Ruaidhri Smith skied a catch to extra cover off the bowling of Green. New overseas recruit Peter Hatzoglu smashed 15 off eight balls before hoisting Siddle to Overton at long-on as the visitors were dismissed with two balls unused. 

Banton afforded Somerset's chase a super-charged start, plundering three fours and a six from successive balls in an over from Australian leg spinner Hatzoglu that went for 23 runs. Not to be upstaged, Smeed drove down the ground with increasing fluency as the openers raised 50 in 3.5 overs to seize the initiative.

Having contributed his highest score of the campaign and played his part in a whirlwind opening stand of 69 in 5.5 overs, Smeed drove Douthwaite straight to mid-off, departing for a 14-ball 28, with 3 fours and a six. By the end of the powerplay, Somerset were 72-1 and the required rate was down to 5.9.

Nevertheless, Tom Kohler-Cadmore was in no mood to hang about and the former Yorkshire man smashed Smith for consecutive sixes over long-on and mid-wicket before chancing his arm once too often and holing out to backward point for 19 later in the same over.

There was no stopping Banton, however, the right-hander going to his first Blast 50 of the season via 26 balls. Having set-up a successful chase, he was unable to finish the job, hitting Douthwaite to mid-off in the tenth over, by which time he had amassed 9 fours and a six and Somerset were 116-3, requiring a further 38 runs at just under four an over.

Lammonby came and went quickly, but Tom Abell and Gregory eschewed unnecessary risk in a fifth wicket partnership of 25, which took the home side to the brink of victory. Abell was bowled for a 17-ball 22 and Gregory went for 11, leaving Green to strike the winning runs.   

 

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