T20 Blast: Birmingham Bears' spinners star as Lancashire are hammered at Edgbaston
Birmingham Bears made it three wins out of three in the T20 Blast as their spinners took all 10 wickets to set up a crushing seven-wicket win over previously-unbeaten Lancashire at Edgbaston.
Like the Bears, Worcestershire Rapids maintained their 100% record with a comfortable 33-run victory over winless Leicestershire at New Road, while Northamptonshire achieved their first success, beating Derbyshire by six wickets. Big-hitters Colin de Grandhomme and captain Liam Livingstone also failed to fire, both falling in a clatter of three wickets for 10 runs in 14 balls as Lancashire continued to be suffocated by the Bears' canny slow bowlers.
He cracked a half-century off 36 balls as the Bears cruised home with 34 balls to spare, despite the cheap departures of in-form Sam Hain and Maxwell .At New Road, the Rapids were indebted to a brilliant 69 from Kashif Ali as he breathed some much-needed momentum into their faltering innings. But Nick Welch was caught in the deep off Rapids captain Brett D'Oliveira, who then cleaned up Colin Ackermann three balls later.had Rishi Patel stumped by Cox to leave Leicestershire 102-4.
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