The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action from the latest round of matches in the 2024 Vitality Blast
Hove: Sussex Sharks 200-7, Hampshire Hawks 178 - Sussex won by 22 runs
Sussex Sharks made it seven wins out of 10 in the Vitality Blast when they beat Hampshire by 22 runs at Hove.
Hampshire have won just twice and will surely have to win all their remaining matches to make the quarter-finals.
The visitors, chasing a target of 201, could not have got off to a worse start, losing two wickets in the first two overs.
In the first, overseas batsman Ben McDermott was run out after hitting Ollie Robinson to extra cover and calling for a single. And in the next over Tom Prest lobbed James Coles to Tom Clark at mid-on.
But Vince and Joe Weatherley then breathed life into the Hampshire innings with a partnership worth 59 in just six overs.
James Vince made 32 before being dismissed by Danny Lamb (Getty Images)
Vince hit Danny Lamb for a spectacular six over midwicket and out of the ground. And Weatherley, dropped on 21 by Lamb, hit four fours and a six in a 23-ball 34 before he skied Jack Carson to Alsop at deep mid-off.
When Vince was bowled by Lamb for 32 Hampshire were up against it. But a spirited partnership of 50 in five overs between Toby Albert (27) and Benny Howell (32) kept them on course. But while Hampshire were keeping up with the run-rate they continued to lose wickets.
Albert, swiping to leg, was bowled by Coles, James Fuller prodded Coles to Lamb at midwicket and Howell was run out after Liam Dawson, who had just dug out a yorker by Robinson, did not leave his crease after his partner had called for a quick single. In the end, Hampshire bowled out for 178 in 19.1 overs, finished well short.
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