Vitality Blast 2023 All Matches June 18th - Scorecards, Match Reports and Reactions
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Vitality Blast 2023 All Matches June 18th - Scorecards, Match Reports and Reactions
Here are the Vitality Blast June 18th 2023 Match Reports, Results, Scorecards and Reactions for all the matches being played today.
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North Group
June 18: Derbyshire Falcons v Yorkshire Vikings (Queen’s Park, Chesterfield)
Yorkshire Vikings winning run came to a shuddering halt when Derbyshire Falcons thrashed them by 144 runs in the Vitality Blast North Group match at Chesterfield.
The Vikings were bidding for a club record seven straight wins in the T20 but were dismantled by a stunning Falcons batting display
Haider Ali lit the fuse with 59 off 41 balls before Leus du Plooy and Brooke Guest plundered 93 from 34 balls to take the Falcons to 212 for 4.
Du Plooy smashed five sixes in an unbeaten 66 off 32 balls while Guest cleared the ropes three times in his 39 not out from 18 deliveries.
Ben Mike bore the brunt of the Falcons onslaught, conceding 74 from four overs, the sixth most expensive spell in world T20 cricket and the third worst in this country.
The visitors slim chances of chasing down 213 vanished when they slumped to 29 for five in the powerplay and they skittled for 68 in the 12th over as the Falcons celebrated their biggest ever T20 victory and a sixth consecutive win over the Vikings at Chesterfield.
There was little sign of the mayhem that unfolded in front of a sellout 5000 crowd when the Vikings won the toss and restricted the Falcons to 70 for 3 at the halfway point of their innings.
Dom Bess struck in his second over when Luis Reece skied a pull to cover but Harry Came responded by driving Jordan Thompson for six before pulling and steering Mike for boundaries.
Mike had his only success of a chastening day when Came went for another big shot off the last and was caught at mid off to leave the Falcons on 48 for 2 at the end of the powerplay
The Vikings got the big wicket of Wayne Madsen in the next over when he called for a sharp single to midwicket and was run out by Thompson’s direct hit.
But the game began to unravel for the visitors with Ali cutting a short ball from Mike over backward point for six before smashing Revis over the long off boundary in the 13th over
He whipped Thompson into the crowd over square leg but was brilliantly caught by Jafer Chohan trying to repeat the shot.
But from then on the flow of runs turned into a torrent with du Plooy driving Mike over extra cover for a big six as 22 came off the 16th over.
Another 22 came from the next two overs with Guest pulling a Thompson no ball for six before du Plooy and Guest dispatched Mike to all parts of Queen’s Park.
Du Plooy pulled and drove the medium pacer for three sixes and Guest signed off with two more maximums with 31 coming from the last over.
It added up to carnage with the Falcons plundering 91 off the final five overs and the game was over as a contest when the Vikings lost four wickets in the first four overs.
Adam Lyth skied Alex Thomson to mid off, James Wharton chipped back a return catch to Zak Chappell before Dawid Malan was bowled coming down the pitch to Thomson.
When Johnny Tattersall miscued Chappell to mid on, the Vikings were 7 for 4 and former Derbyshire favourite Shan Masood joined the procession when he became Chappell’s third victim.
The Vikings were 68 for 9 when rain delayed the inevitable for 50 minutes but five balls after the restart Chappell took the winning catch to consign Yorkshire to their lowest score in T20 cricket.
June 18: Lancashire Lightning v Durham (Old Trafford, Manchester)
A half century and two wickets from Lancashire’s Luke Wells helped ensure a third consecutive Vitality Blast win for Lightning as they saw off Durham in a nervy rain-affected finish at Emirates Old Trafford.
Wells’ valuable 56 and a classy knock of 60 by New Zealander Darryl Mitchell had seen the hosts recover from six for two after the first over to post 195 for seven.
But a brilliant opening stand of 125 between Alex Lees and Michael Jones had got Durham right back into contention before the rain came with just three overs left and the visitors slightly behind on DLS on 150 for three meaning it was Lancashire who triumphed by just seven runs.
Durham had got off to a brilliant start with Wayne Parnell dismissing Phil Salt first ball with a steepling delivery that hit the edge before the South African had Colin de Grandhomme lbw for 6 three balls later.
With the hosts six for two after just one over a serious rebuild was needed and Wells and Jos Buttler stepped up putting on a third wicket partnership of 51 in just 35 balls that was broken when the England man holed out to Parnell on the long off boundary off Nathan Sowter for 31.
Another rebuild and another international cricketer coming to the crease saw New Zealander Mitchell join Wells as the pair took the score past the 100 mark during a period characterised by some frenzied scampering between the wickets and some delightful straight drives from Mitchell.
Eventually the desire for quick singles was Wells’ downfall as he was run out but not before he had reached an excellent 56 off 39 balls.
With Tom Hartley coming and going quickly for just one it was left to skipper Liam Livingstone to create some momentum towards the end of the innings with a quick-fire 33 off just 17 balls as he and Mitchell produced Lightning’s third substantial partnership of 48 before Parnell got his third scalp with wicket of the captain and Mitchell handed the economical Ben Raine a deserved victim.
With darkening skies and the threat of thunder, Durham got off to a flyer, helped by some wayward bowling and a succession of no balls from Luke Wood and Jack Blatherwick, meaning they were 64 for none off the first powerplay.
The runs continued to flow as first Lees then Jones reached their half centuries before the latter finally skied a catch off Wells to George Bell stationed at cow corner for 50 with the opening stand broken on 125 – Durham’s highest ever first wicket partnership against Lancashire in T20.
Suddenly the game had changed and roared on by the home faithful, Lightning began to turn the screw with Ashton Turner quickly departing for four as he became another victim of Wells’ twirlers to leave the equation 57 off 24 balls and Lancashire crucially ahead on DLS for the first time in the innings.
At the fall of Lees for 78, caught by Buttler off Mitchell, the heavens finally opened. with the score 150 for three with three overs left, Durham seven runs behind on DLS and Lancashire breathing a huge sigh of relief.
June 18: Leicestershire Foxes v Worcestershire Rapids (Grace Road, Leicester)
Worcestershire Rapids kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the knock-out stages of the Vitality Blast by ending a run of four straight defeats in the North Group with a comfortable six-wicket win over Leicestershire Foxes.
The home side, bottom of the table with just two wins from nine matches, were dismissed for just 112 in 18.1 overs as leg spinner Usama Mir finished with a T20 career-best four for 22 and fellow wrist spinner Brett Oliveira took two for 17.
Skipper D’Oliveira’s unbeaten 51 then saw his side home in the 17th over to raise their points haul to 10 as they bid to build on their four back-to-back wins at the start of the competition and clinch a top-four finish.
Australian wicketkeeper-batter Peter Handscomb, not originally part of the Foxes’ Blast plans but drafted in as injury cover with batter Lewis Hill and overseas pace bowler Naveen ul-Haq among those absent, top-scored with 36 from 20 balls and Rishi Patel made 27 from 22 but the next highest score was Wiaan Mulder’s 11.
Having been put in on a slow pitch, the Foxes looked set to post a competitive total despite losing Nick Welch to the fourth ball of the innings, racking up 56 runs in the powerplay for that one loss.
Welch miscued a big drive against Dillon Pennington but after Rishi Patel had launched a free hit over the long-on boundary following a Josh Tongue no-ball, Handscomb showed the Foxes what they had been missing by plundering two sixes and three fours.
But everything fell apart for the home side just as soon as the Australian was out in the eighth over, bowled by D’Oliveira’s first ball as he was beaten trying to work to leg.
The second-wicket pair had blitzed 64 in 39 balls but no other partnership exceeded 13 as one wicket followed another in rapid succession.
The next over saw Mir - brought back by the Rapids as a replacement for the injured Michael Bracewell - dismiss Colin Ackermann and Patel in the space of three deliveries as the Foxes skipper was caught behind off an inside edge and Patel was leg before trying to slog-sweep after hitting two sixes in his 22-ball 27.
Louis Kimber was bowled giving himself room to drive Mitchell Santner before Rehan Ahmed holed out to long-on. Mir took two in two balls, having Tom Scriven caught in the deep and bamboozling Mike Finan with a first-ball googly.
Wiaan Mulder’s ramp was well caught by a diving Pennington before the rout ended with Callum Parkinson trying to lob a ball from Pat Brown over D’Oliveira at extra cover only to be foiled by an athletic leap and one-handed catch from the Rapids skipper.
The last nine wickets fell for 46 as the Foxes were out in 18.2 overs, which can only be described as miserable, much as Mir and D’Oliveira had bowled well, requiring the visitors to score at less than six an over to win the game.
Although the sky was darkening as they began their innings, the Rapids knew they could afford not to take risks so long as they kept in front of the DLS calculation, with just five overs needed to be bowled by the Foxes to make it a match.
It thus did not matter that their 37 for one from the first six looked modest next to the home side’s 56 for one, Jack Haynes the one loss as he clipped a ball from Matt Salisbury into the hands of Louis Kimber on the leg side.
Leicestershire gave themselves a faint glimmer of hope as Santner found the fielder on the long-off and Adam Hose bottom-edged a ball from Rehan Ahmed into his stumps, the Rapids losing wickets in consecutive overs but at 66 for three from 10, they were still in front on DLS with thunder rumbling nearby.
Kashif Ali became a second victim for Ahmed when he edged to short third man in the 15th over but by then only 21 runs were needed from 35 balls.
Rain now was falling but the umpires sensibly kept the players on the field long enough for Ben Cox to sweep Colin Ackermann for four and D’Oliveira to hit Finan a mighty six over long on and a lofted four over extra cover to clinch victory with 22 balls to spare.
June 18: Leicestershire Foxes v Worcestershire Rapids (Grace Road, Leicester)
Worcestershire Rapids kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the knock-out stages of the Vitality Blast by ending a run of four straight defeats in the North Group with a comfortable six-wicket win over Leicestershire Foxes.
The home side, bottom of the table with just two wins from nine matches, were dismissed for just 112 in 18.1 overs as leg spinner Usama Mir finished with a T20 career-best four for 22 and fellow wrist spinner Brett Oliveira took two for 17.
Skipper D’Oliveira’s unbeaten 51 then saw his side home in the 17th over to raise their points haul to 10 as they bid to build on their four back-to-back wins at the start of the competition and clinch a top-four finish.
Australian wicketkeeper-batter Peter Handscomb, not originally part of the Foxes’ Blast plans but drafted in as injury cover with batter Lewis Hill and overseas pace bowler Naveen ul-Haq among those absent, top-scored with 36 from 20 balls and Rishi Patel made 27 from 22 but the next highest score was Wiaan Mulder’s 11.
Having been put in on a slow pitch, the Foxes looked set to post a competitive total despite losing Nick Welch to the fourth ball of the innings, racking up 56 runs in the powerplay for that one loss.
Welch miscued a big drive against Dillon Pennington but after Rishi Patel had launched a free hit over the long-on boundary following a Josh Tongue no-ball, Handscomb showed the Foxes what they had been missing by plundering two sixes and three fours.
But everything fell apart for the home side just as soon as the Australian was out in the eighth over, bowled by D’Oliveira’s first ball as he was beaten trying to work to leg.
The second-wicket pair had blitzed 64 in 39 balls but no other partnership exceeded 13 as one wicket followed another in rapid succession.
The next over saw Mir - brought back by the Rapids as a replacement for the injured Michael Bracewell - dismiss Colin Ackermann and Patel in the space of three deliveries as the Foxes skipper was caught behind off an inside edge and Patel was leg before trying to slog-sweep after hitting two sixes in his 22-ball 27.
Louis Kimber was bowled giving himself room to drive Mitchell Santner before Rehan Ahmed holed out to long-on. Mir took two in two balls, having Tom Scriven caught in the deep and bamboozling Mike Finan with a first-ball googly.
Wiaan Mulder’s ramp was well caught by a diving Pennington before the rout ended with Callum Parkinson trying to lob a ball from Pat Brown over D’Oliveira at extra cover only to be foiled by an athletic leap and one-handed catch from the Rapids skipper.
The last nine wickets fell for 46 as the Foxes were out in 18.2 overs, which can only be described as miserable, much as Mir and D’Oliveira had bowled well, requiring the visitors to score at less than six an over to win the game.
Although the sky was darkening as they began their innings, the Rapids knew they could afford not to take risks so long as they kept in front of the DLS calculation, with just five overs needed to be bowled by the Foxes to make it a match.
It thus did not matter that their 37 for one from the first six looked modest next to the home side’s 56 for one, Jack Haynes the one loss as he clipped a ball from Matt Salisbury into the hands of Louis Kimber on the leg side.
Leicestershire gave themselves a faint glimmer of hope as Santner found the fielder on the long-off and Adam Hose bottom-edged a ball from Rehan Ahmed into his stumps, the Rapids losing wickets in consecutive overs but at 66 for three from 10, they were still in front on DLS with thunder rumbling nearby.
Kashif Ali became a second victim for Ahmed when he edged to short third man in the 15th over but by then only 21 runs were needed from 35 balls.
Rain now was falling but the umpires sensibly kept the players on the field long enough for Ben Cox to sweep Colin Ackermann for four and D’Oliveira to hit Finan a mighty six over long on and a lofted four over extra cover to clinch victory with 22 balls to spare.
June 18: Northants Steelbacks v Notts Outlaws (County Cricket Ground, Northampton)
Ben Sanderson took three wickets to help send Northamptonshire to a comprehensive 78 run victory over Nottinghamshire Outlaws in this Vitality Blast match at Wantage Road.
Sanderson started wickets tumbling by removing England T20 opener Alex Hales for 0 in the second over. It comes just two days after he accounted for England captain Jos Buttler, also without scoring, in the match against Lancashire Lightning on Friday night.
With heavy rain circling the ground, the visitors were mindful of staying on top of the run rate as they chased a par score of 177 but lost regular wickets with David Willey (2-9) picking up two in two balls in the third over.
The stage had been set by Ricardo Vasconcelos who hit 51 off just 44 balls (six fours) and shared a stand of 53 in 6.3 overs with Willey (22). The middle order all added useful runs, AJ Tye contributing 21 off just eight balls as the Steelbacks plundered 60 runs off the last four overs of their innings despite missing Australian big hitter Chris Lynn (unwell).
Skipper Steven Mullaney (31) played a lone hand for the Outlaws in the run chase, but despite useful 20s from Joe Clarke and Samit Patel, they fell well short.
The Steelbacks soon lost Emilio Gay when he clipped Shaheen Shahn Afridi straight to midwicket. Vasconcelos though continued his excellent run of form, but combining power hitting with deft stroke play. He hit Shaheen down the ground for four and crunched Jake Ball through the covers for another boundary as well as deploying the sweep and cut to good effect.
Willey too attacked in the powerplay, cracking the ball through square leg for four when Ball dropped short, He came down the wicket to Matt Carter and deposited him over long-on for four and meted out the same treatment to Ball. His downfall came when he made room to attack Samit Patel but was deceived by one which knocked back his off-stump.
Vasconcelos swept Samit Patel to bring up his fifty off just 40 balls but fell soon after when he cut Carter straight to backward point.
After making his Steelbacks debut on Friday, Justin Broad again showed few nerves. sweeping and driving the ball to the ropes, but fell thanks to a sensational one-handed catch off his own bowling by Patel (2-23).
Saif Zaib (26) and Rob Keogh (20*) then combined in an enterprising stand of 36 runs. Zaib latched onto a beamer from Shaheen dispatching it high over fine leg for six and hit another maximum before he holed out to long-off off Ball.
Keogh gathered two boundaries of his own as the runs continued to fly. AJ Tye had fun in the closing overs, swinging with real intent, depositing Shaheen high over long-on for six and hitting three fours as the Steelbacks’ innings ended on a high.
Clarke took the attack to Sanderson’s first over, picking up three consecutive boundaries. The evergreen Steelback seamer soon struck back, getting one to come back and remove Hales’ bails, before Willey struck twice in the next over. First Colin Munro chipped one up to mid-off before Matt Montgomery drove loosely and was caught at slip.
Clarke ramped Willey for six and had powered four down the ground off Taylor (2-17) when he tried another big shot off the next ball, failed to connect and had his stumps flattened. That left the Outlaws on 48 for four at the end of the powerplay.
Patel looked to regain the initiative. He powered Sanderson through the covers and disdainfully smashed Taylor over long on before collecting two streaky boundaries off Freddie Heldreich. The spinner got his man in the next over though when he holed out to Zaib on the deep midwicket boundary.
Sanderson (3-29) returned to the attack and duly had Tom Moores caught behind off the first ball of his final over, finishing his stint by picking up Shaheen when Taylor held onto a steepling catch.
Calvin Harrison skied a catch off Taylor with Willey doing the honours in the field before Carter holed out off Tye.
Mullaney (31) hit a big six down the ground but was the final wicket to fall caught on the boundary to give Heldreich his second wicket.
South Group
June 18: Glamorgan v Gloucestershire (Sophia Gardens, Cardiff)
Glamorgan got back to winning ways in the Vitality Blast with a 32-run victory over Gloucestershire in Cardiff. A half century for Sam Northeast and a very solid bowling display from the home side was enough to claim their fifth win of the season and keep their hopes of qualification to the knockout stages alive.
Glamorgan struggled at first but Northeast was well supported by Billy Root, Chris Cooke and Timm van der Gugten as they battled to a very challenging total of 183 for five.
Gloucestershire started slowly but looked to be building towards making this game a close one, but the fall of five wickets for 15 runs at the back end of their chase gave Glamorgan the win.
This victory puts Glamorgan level with Hampshire on 10 points and in the mix for a place in the quarter finals. Gloucestershire remain on just six points and will need to start putting together some results to push for the latter stages.
It was a slow start in the first few overs for Glamorgan with further injuries resulting in another new opening partnership for the home side. This time it was Prem Sisodiya who was given the job at the top of the order with Kiran Carlson. Both openers were gone within the first three overs with Glamorgan reduced to 18 for two.
With Colin Ingram joining the lengthy Glamorgan injury list it was left to Northeast and Billy Root to rebuild. The two shared a stand of 45 that saw them get out of the PowerPlay without the loss of any further wickets and with some acceleration.
Root was dismissed for 36 from 24 balls when he was caught at point from a thick outside edge off the bowling of Tom Smith.
Northeast was happy to play the anchor role as players attacked around him and the in form Chris Cooke got off to a flying start on his way to 28 from 17 balls before he became Tom Smith’s second victim to leave Glamorgan 116 for four in the 15 over.
An acceleration was needed and that it just want Timm van der Gugten provided as he smoked four sixes on his way to a crucial 38 from 17 balls. His effort was what took Glamorgan to a very competitive total that was tricky when starting your innings.
Northeast was unbeaten at the end with 60 from 48 balls as Glamorgan reached 183 for five, an innings that held together a batting effort from a makeshift top order.
The Gloucestershire innings also got off to a sluggish start, with them reaching the end of the PowerPlay at 44 for one with Miles Hammond the man dismissed for 9 from 11 balls.
Grant Roelofsen had reached 33 from 24 balls when he was caught in the deep by Northeast off the bowling of Sisodiya just as he looked set and was starting to push on to leave Gloucestershire 63 for two in the ninth over.
When Ben Wells was bowled by Peter Hatzoglou for 15 it left Gloucestershire needing 89 runs from 49 balls.
It was Ben Charlesworth who led the charge with a very well made 45 from 28 balls before he was brilliantly caught by Billy Root on the square leg boundary to give Hatzoglou his second.
Another fantastic bit of fielding saw the end of Tom Price when Sisodiya took a catch over his shoulder while running away from the ball off the bowling of Ruaidhri Smith. Van Der Gugten took two wickets in two balls as part of a sequence that saw Gloucestershire go from 113 for three to 128 for eight.
Some lusty blows at the end of the Gloucestershire innings from David Payne gave the visiting fans something to cheer but the result was a heavy defeat against rivals from the other side of the Severn Bridge.
June 18: Middlesex v Essex Eagles (Lord’s, London)
Three Essex players smashed their highest scores of this year’s Vitality Blast to strengthen the Eagles’ quarter-final prospects as they saw off Middlesex at Lord’s for a fifth consecutive victory.
Dan Lawrence – making a first appearance since the announcement of his upcoming move to Surrey – struck 53 from 30 balls before Michael Pepper hit 64 from 34 and Daniel Sams weighed in with a savage 24-ball knock of 67.
That enabled the visitors to post 237 for six, overhauling the record Lord’s T20 total set by Kent Spitfires just two days earlier, and they were well on course to defend that when rain brought the game to a premature close.
Middlesex, who have now lost all 10 of their South Group fixtures, had reached 116 for two halfway through the 13th over – needing an unlikely 122 more from 45 deliveries.
Despite a slow start after losing the toss and being inserted, Essex were into their stride once Lawrence – who dominated the strike in the powerplay – had pummelled successive Tom Helm deliveries for four and six.
The 25-year-old was in ruthless mood, striking the ball powerfully and using his feet as he cracked spinner Nathan Fernandes into the pavilion en route to bringing up a half-century from 26 balls.
However, Feroze Khushi holed out off Martin Andersson and his opening partner followed suit, steering the same bowler into the hands of point – but Pepper eagerly accepted the baton, unfurling the sweep to dispatch Middlesex’s spinners time and again.
He punched Josh de Caires to the cover boundary to equal the scoring rate for Lawrence’s 50 and looked well-placed to convert that into a maiden T20 ton – only to become another Andersson victim when he speared to third man.
Paul Walter took advantage of the short boundary on the grandstand side, clearing it twice in his first three balls and Sams proved even more destructive, smashing eight sixes as the pair added 62 from 27 for the fifth wicket.
The Australian all-rounder butchered Middlesex’s bowling, taking 20 off four deliveries of the final over from Fernandes before departing to a return catch, but it looked as though the visitors already had more than enough in the bank.
Stephen Eskinazi plundered two sixes from Sam Cook’s opening over to get his side’s reply up and running, yet a barren stretch of 28 balls without a boundary left them well behind the required run-rate.
Sams uprooted the skipper’s leg stump for 28, but Ryan Higgins took a pugnacious approach by pulling Matt Critchley twice over the short boundary as he shared a second-wicket stand of 70 from 36 with Joe Cracknell.
Lawrence came on to break the partnership by having Higgins caught in the deep for 32, with Cracknell undefeated on 36 from 33 when rain halted play midway through the next over.
June 18: Surrey v Hampshire Hawks (The Oval, London)
Hampshire Hawks strengthened their bid for Vitality Blast quarter-final qualification by trouncing South Group leaders Surrey by nine wickets in a one-sided affair at the Kia Oval.
A brilliant collective bowling performance by Hampshire, led by the impressive John Turner’s 3 for 17, resulted in Surrey being bowled out for just 124 in 19.2 overs.
Ben McDermott, with a hard-hit 50 off 38 balls, and James Vince, who finished with a superb 62 not out off 40 balls, then ensured a Hampshire stroll to victory with an opening partnership of 92 in exactly 11 overs.
The in-form Vince, who has now scored 476 runs in ten innings in this season’s Blast at an average of 79.33, saw the Hawks home in the company of Toby Albert and it was a first T20 win for Hampshire against Surrey in nine attempts, going back to July 2015. Vince hit two sixes and seven fours, his last a pull off Sean Abbott to end the game.
McDermott ramped his fellow Australian international, paceman Abbott, for four and six from successive balls in the second over of Hampshire’s reply and he later top-edged a hook at Tom Lawes for another maximum before falling to Gus Atkinson. His 92-run stand with Vince equalled Hampshire’s T20 best for the first wicket against Surrey, by Michael Lumb and Jimmy Adams at the Ageas Bowl in 2009.
Jamie Overton, with three sixes and five fours in a powerful 45 from 24 balls, was the only Surrey batsman to make a score of note as Turner, Chris Wood (3 for 20) and Nathan Ellis (3 for 21) exerted an almost total stranglehold.
Surrey, joint top of the South Group alongside Somerset at the start of the game, with seven wins from their first nine matches, lost their first five wickets for just 32 after being put into bat and, at the halfway point of the innings, were in deep trouble at 39 for five.
Only an extraordinary 56-run stand in a mere 3.1 overs between Overton and Tom Curran – particularly extraordinary in the context of the rest of the innings – hauled Surrey’s total up to something defendable. Their partnership was a seventh wicket T20 record for Surrey against Hampshire, beating the 52 put on by Zafar Ansari and Gareth Batty at the Ageas Bowl in 2012.
When Surrey captain Jordan mishit Ellis to deep mid off to go for 17 it left the total 53 for six from 12.4 overs, and his team in disarray.
But Overton pulled Benny Howell’s medium pace for a huge six into the second tier of the JM Finn Stand to begin a much-needed revival in the 14th over. Howell’s delivery had also been a no ball, giving Overton the chance to muscle the next ball, a free hit, over wide mid wicket for another six as the over ultimately cost 20 runs.
Nineteen more were plundered from the 15th over, with Overton taking three fours and a pulled six off James Fuller, while Curran then joined in the fun by pulling Wood for six and then creaming the left-arm seamer through extra cover for four before being caught at long on for an 11-ball 22 later that over.
Turner returned to bowl Sunil Narine for 2, off his back pad, and Overton’s fine knock was ended in the 19th over when Ellis fired a full ball through another attempted big hit.
Last pair Atkinson and Lawes came together with still nine balls of the innings to be bowled but they could not manage to see out the 20 overs, with Wood bowling Atkinson for five behind his legs.
Wood had actually started Surrey’s struggle by forcing Will Jacks to chip the fifth ball of the game to mid wicket, to go for a duck, and Laurie Evans (1) skied Turner to mid on in the second over.
Sam Curran clubbed Ellis to mid off in the fifth over, and Jamie Smith had only made two more runs than Curran when he fell for nine in the next over, mis-hitting the pacy Turner to mid on.
The powerplay ended with Surrey a sickly 22 for four and Abbott was then sent back for 6 when he touched a Fuller lifter to the keeper.
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