Here are all the Vitality Blast 2024 – Live Cricket Streaming, Live Scores, Match Reports and Reactions for every match on June 2nd 2024.
South Group
Surrey v Somerset (Kia Oval)
Essex v Middlesex (The Cloud County Ground)
Glamorgan v Sussex Sharks (Sophia Gardens)
Glamorgan claimed their first win of the 2024 Vitality Blast with a 25 run victory over Sussex in Cardiff, with Sam Northeast’s 61 not out enough to set up a winning target.
Four wickets for Tymal Mills helped to restrict Glamorgan to 183 for seven from their 20 overs but a solid Glamorgan bowling display, and a much improved effort in the field from their first match in this competition against Surrey, saw them defend the target.
James Coles top scored for Sussex with a career best 69 not out but he had little support from the rest of the Sussex batting line up.
The star with the ball for Glamorgan was Mason Crane who finished with figures of two for 22 from his four overs as Sussex finished on 158 for six.
Regular wickets throughout the Glamorgan innings meant they had to fight throughout to keep the scoring going, but significant contributions throughout the order allowed them to post a competitive total. The home side’s PowerPlay brought 56 runs for the loss of two wickets with Chris Cooke and Sam Northeast going well.
Cooke was given a life on 21 when Dan Hughes slipped while attempting to take what should have been a straightforward catch off the bowling of Danny Lamb. Just as it looked as if Glamorgan would take full advantage of this mistake, Cooke was dimissed by Mills.
A solid stand of 68 between Northeast and Colin Ingram seemed to be setting a platform for them to attack the Sussex bowling in the death overs. Two wickets in two balls from Mills pegged them back once again. The first was Ingram who was bowled off an inside edge, then Marnus Labuschagne was bowled next ball by a that beat him for pace.
Mills claimed his fourth wicket when he had Dan Douthwaite dismissed for 11 when he gave a catch to Oli Carter and long on to give him his second four wicket haul of the competition so far.
Northeast was there at the end, hitting the last ball of the innings for six to set Sussex a target of 184.
Sussex started brightly thanks to an expensive over from Tom Bevan but two Sussex wickets inside the PowerPlay slowed them a little. A steady stand of 42 between Carter and James Coles kept them in the contest. Carter was dismissed for 33 when he was caught by Eddie Byrom off the bowling of Ingram, but Glamorgan felt they had dismissed him in the previous over but a low catch from Tom Bevan was adjudicated to have not been taken cleanly by the umpires.
As had been the case throughout the Glamorgan innings, regular wickets meant that there was always the need for an element of rebuilding and three quick wickets saw Sussex go from 73 for two to 85 for five. Just at the point where Sussex needed to accelerate Crane put the brakes on thanks to his excellent spell that did not concede a single boundary.
The second of Crane’s wickets came from a fantastic boundary catch from Labuschagne that saw him toss the ball back into play to claim the wicket of John Simpson.
Coles batted intelligently for his first fifty in T20 cricket, but with no support around him the required rate kept climbing. By the start of the 18th over Sussex needed 65 runs from the final 18 balls, a task that was too much for them as Glamorgan secured their first win of the season.
Hampshire Hawks v Kent Spitfires (Utilita Bowl, Southampton)
James Fuller, Benny Howell and Liam Dawson’s late sixes gave Hampshire Hawks a stunning comeback victory over Kent Spitfires to get their Vitality Blast campaign going.
The Hawks required 42 off the last three overs but three maximums in a row from Fuller turned the game before Howell and Dawson smashed over the ropes in clutch circumstances to win by three wickets.
All-rounder Joey Evison picked up three for 31 – his second-best T20 figures – to put Kent in control before the late efforts handed Hampshire their first T20 win of the season.
Daniel Bell-Drummond and Sam Billings’ 40s were the foundations for the Spitfires 165 for nine but it didn’t quite prove enough as Spitfires have one win and one loss so far.
Chasing 166 to win, Ben McDermott and James Vince were circumspect, with barely a shot in anger during a 42-run powerplay, as timing became a struggle.
Australian McDermott attempted to accelerate things but while his pulled six worked, his hoick two balls later only picked out the deep midwicket positioned Crawley.
Nick Gubbins was drafted in to replace Ali Orr – who broke his arm while batting against Surrey – but his second T20 appearance for Hampshire ended identically as his first, ie a duck, which gave Joey Evison his second in an over.
Evison grabbed his third when Vince tried a slog out of desperation to end his stodgy 35 off 32 before Friday night hat-trick taker Matt Parkinson joined the party when Toby Albert reversed to point.
Joe Weatherley and James Fuller continued to tick under the rate until the 18th over as the game looked lost.
But with 42 still required, and Beyers Swanepoel bowling, Fuller bludgeoned to long on, straight then straight again for three sixes in a row – brining up a fifty stand with Weatherley.
Even though the South African found an edge the following ball the momentum had swung with 18 needed off the final two overs.
Weatherley fell for 49 when he picked out long on but a Benny Howell six off the final ball of the penultimate over moved the dial to the hosts again.
With nine now needed in the last, the previously expensive Grant Stewart had Howell caught but was smashed over the ropes by Dawson, before a scampered single gave Hawks an unlikely victory.
Earlier, Kent chose to toss and piled on the runs in the powerplay under blue skies. Chris Wood – in his testimonial year – was the only to stem the early runs with his two overs going for just five runs.
At the other end, Daniel Bell-Drummond blitzed 42 off 27 balls with hardly anything avoiding the middle of his bat – with the four overs not bowled by Wood in the powerplay going for 52.
But things swung on the final two balls of the final six overs when James Fuller had Bell-Drummond caught and bowled after a six-second hang time – after a 59-run opening stand – and bowled Tawanda Muyeye.
Fuller would have to wait another five overs for his hat-trick ball, which was keenly dealt with by Joe Denly, although Benny Howell spread Zak Crawley’s stumps.
Sam Billings and Denly rebuilt with some smart running in a 60 stand, but they both fell in a Liam Dawson over – the former caught behind while reverse sweeping on 43 and the latter holing out to long-off.
From then, the Hawks cramped the Spitfires with 31 runs coming off the final four overs, which all saw a wicket fall.
Hampshire Hawks all-rounder Liam Dawson:
“It was a very good game of cricket. We probably weren’t at our best today again but we are happy to get our first T20 win of the summer.
“We were quite a way behind so Foz hitting those three sixes changed the whole momentum of the game. I think if we’re honest, we probably left it a little bit too late today. We let the run rate build a bit too much on a big ground where it is hard to score at 12 an over.
“Howell’s six was a massive boundary. With Fuller and Howell, we’ve got some very strong power hitters there. We know that we can catch up if we need to, but ideally we don’t want to leave it that late again.
“I had a rough idea what he was going to do – bowl to the longer side into the pitch – and thankfully I connected with it and it managed to go for six. There was relief but I knew I have three balls to hit a boundary to win the game. I executed it well.
“It’s nice to win. We usually leave it a little late to get on the board and we’ve got a few days off before heading to Bristol and Somerset. If we win one of them it would be good, if we win two it would be excellent.”
Kent Spitfires all-rounder Joey Evison:
“It’s pretty gutted. We’re pretty devastated, actually. We felt like it all came down to the death overs for both sides. I think we were 40 for 6 in the death period, and they got 60-plus runs.
“I felt we were right in it, right until the very end. We controlled the game really nicely. To keep them under 45 in the powerplay, was a great effort on a really nice batting wicket. But to come out on the wrong side of it, it’s not a nice feeling.
“Fuller and Benny Howell batted well, and Joe Weatherley batted superbly. We controlled the game, and it all happened in the last four or five overs.
“I bowled really nicely today. I felt like my change of pace worked really nicely on that wicket. I got a couple of wickets in an over which changed the game, but they fought back well.
“We’ve shown some nice glimpses of cricket. We had a complete performance against Middlesex in the first game, but we played some really nice cricket in this game as well in this game.
“There’s still 12 games to go in this competition, so it’s about peaking up the right time. But it would win have been nice to wo this one away from home as well.”
North Group
Lancashire Lightning v Derbyshire Falcons (Emirates Old Trafford)
Lancashire Lightning inflicted a second defeat in three matches Derbyshire Falcons when they eased to a comfortable 57-run victory in the Vitality Blast match at Emirates Old Trafford.
After posting 179 for seven in their 20 overs, Lightning restricted the Falcons to 122 all out, with highly-rated Australian signing Chris Green taking four for 12 to add to his rapid 22 in 11-balls late in Lancashire’s innings.
Asked to bat first, Lancashire made a fine start, Josh Bohannon taking 14 off three successive balls from Pat Brown and 42 runs being scored in the first four overs. However, Luke Wells was bowled by Dupavillon for five and Josh Bohannon caught at mid-off by Wagstaff off Zak Chappell for 39 to leave the home side on 50 for two at the end of the powerplay.
Lancashire skipper, Keaton Jennings, restored to fitness after a back spasm, made a breezy 16 before being dismissed in similar fashion to Wells off the bowling of Brown and the experiment of promoting Luke Wood up the order ended when he came down the wicket and was stumped off Samit Patel for one.
Tom Bruce and Matthew Hurst then put on 39 for the fifth wicket, their progress aided by a high full-toss from Chappell, who redeemed himself two balls later when he had Bruce caught at deep midwicket by Ross Whiteley for a 28-ball 35.
Lancashire were 121 for five after 15 overs and in the remainder of the innings both Hurst and Steven Croft perished at deep midwicket off Chappell and Brown respectively, Hurst making a 25-ball 27.
Lightning were 157 for seven at the start of the last over but Green heaved two leg-side sixes off Dupavillon’s last set of six, which cost 22 runs and ruined the South African’s figures. He finished with one for 35 whereas Chappell took three for 38, Brown two for 37 and Patel one for 29.
Derbyshire’s reply got off to a poor start when Luis Reece played on to Green in the second over for six and worse was to come in the fifth when Mitch Stanley yorked David Lloyd for 10. And despite scoring 48 runs when the initial field-placing restrictions applied, the powerplay ended on a low note for the visitors when Patel pulled Green straight to Blatherwick at deep square leg.
Nearly two overs later, Harry Came was bowled by Blatherwick for a 22-ball 26 and the visitors reached the midpoint of their innings needing 111 runs off 60 balls. Things got worse in the next over when Anuj Dal miscued a pull off Wells and was caught by Bohannon for nine and though 15 runs came off Wells’ last over, the leg-spinner ended his spell by having the dangerous Whiteley caught at deep midwicket by Blatherwick for nine.
Brooke Guest’s attempt to hold the Falcons’ innings together ended when he was caught by Jennings off Aspinwall and Green then removed Chappell and Dupavillon with successive deliveries in his next over before last man Pat Brown was run out for nought to end what had become a one-sided contest.
Derbyshire batter, Brooke Guest, said:
It was a bit of a two-paced wicket. It became easier once you got in, but getting in on it wasn’t easy.
It makes a difference that we still have Wayne Madsen and Aneurin Donald to come into this side. We know what they can do in white-ball cricket and it’ll be exciting if we can bring them in next week.
We’re playing Nottinghamshire at Derby on Friday and they’ve been our bogey team for years. To beat them would show that we’re right up for it and I think their team this year is definitely beatable
Lancashire all-rounder, Chris Green, said:
We’ve had two fantastic games here, it’s been a great start at home and even better to have bounced back after the loss on the road. I think we’ve played some really good cricket to start off this competition.
I’m really happy with how today went. I think that’s my role coming in as an overseas player. I’ve got to try and contribute to the teams success as much as possible.
I’ve been working really hard on both facets of my game and to it both in one game is really nice. For me, now it’s about continuing that good form as this tournament runs on.
I’ve had a couple of stints out here that I’ve really enjoyed. The cricket’s a lot of fun, there’s a great atmosphere. The crowd get really behind it. With my skill sets, particularly bowling on some of these wickets, it really suits me as well. So I want to contribute as much as I can, try and rub off with a bit of experience as well is my main goal here.
I’m having a lot of fun, the lads are great and I’ve really enjoyed the support we’ve got here as well.
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