Michael Pepper hits the first century of this summer's T20 Blast as Essex beat Middlesex, while there are wins for Surrey, Hampshire, Glamorgan, Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Michael Pepper hit the first century of this summer's T20 Blast as Essex beat Middlesex to get their campaign up and running.But Pepper smashed six sixes and 10 fours in his 44-ball 101 to help his side to victory with 14 balls to spare.
And in the North Group, Chris Green hit 22 off 11 balls and then took 4-12 as Lancashire beat Derbyshire, and early pacesetters Northants Steelbacks suffered their first defeat as they lost to Yorkshire.at Chelmsford got off to a poor start when they lost Adam Rossington to the ninth ball of their innings to slip to 14-1.He was finally out with 15 runs needed after putting on 83 with Dean Elgar for the second wicket to give their reply momentum.
Sean Abbott and Tom Curran both finished with three wickets as the visitors lost their final five wickets for just 13 runs.With 42 needed off three overs, James Fuller hit three successive maximums to turn the game before Benny Howell and Liam Dawson also cleared the ropes to help their side get over the line with a ball to spare.
After slumping to 85-5 after 12 overs, Sussex were never in the hunt as they could only post 158-6 in reply, despite James Coles' career-best unbeaten 69 off 49 balls.Asked to bat first, Lancashire posted 179-7 in their 20 overs thanks to the platform laid by Josh Bohannon and Tom Bruce .
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