BBC Sport previews a third all-southern T20 Blast Finals Day as holders Somerset play Surrey and Sussex meet Gloucestershire.
It's all cricketing eyes on Birmingham this Saturday as Somerset head back to Edgbaston looking to become the first team to defend their title at T20 Blast Finals Day.a large proportion of the players will again be on duty when the two sides meet 130 miles up the M5 in the Midlands.
But it moved them to within eight points of Surrey in the Championship title race with two games left, aslook for the first of the two wins they will need as they chase a first trophy treble since Warwickshire in 1994. The Gloucestershire contingent will be eyeing a West Country derby final against Somerset, who equal Hampshire's record of being at their 10th Finals Day.Somerset will have wicketkeeper James Rew in for Banton, who is sidelined with his ankle injury, but they are not short of Toms, with Abell, Lammonby and Kohler-Cadmore in their squad.
“This is the reason why you play cricket. Normally you get to September and everyone’s a bit tired but I don’t see any of that. To know you can win all three trophies and do something nobody’s ever done, at least not recently, is huge."Surrey a 'tight unit' says coach Batty Will Jacks, Sam Curran, Reece Topley, Chris Jordan and Jamie Overton are all on England T20 duty, thanks to the ECB's dovetailing of Finals Day in the middle of an England-Australia mini-series.
"We want big games. When I came into the ground at Hove before the quarter-final, you could sense the nervous excitement. We want more of that.
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