T20 Blast semi-final, Edgbaston
Hampshire Hawks 187-3 (20 overs): Weatherley 88*, Vince 59
Notts Outlaws 160 (19.5 overs): Clarke 64; Fuller 4-26
Hampshire gained by 27 runs
Hampshire Hawks beat Notts Outlaws by 27 runs at Edgbaston to arrange a gathering with Northamptonshire Steelbacks within the males’s T20 Blast ultimate.
After Hampshire opener Toby Albert was dismissed early on, Hawks captain James Vince and Joe Weatherley mixed beautifully and put collectively a partnership of 126 on their approach to a complete of 187-3.
Weatherley completed on a T20 profession better of 88 not out, whereas Vince struck 59 from 43 balls, serving to Hampshire set the best complete of T20 Finals Day to date.
Of their reply, Notts seemed good on 100-1 with opener Joe Clarke hitting 64 from 43 balls however they misplaced their final 9 wickets for 60 with paceman James Fuller taking 4-26.
With final 12 months’s runners-up Hampshire trying to go one higher in 2026, they obtained off to a poor begin as Albert snicked his second supply from Mohammad Amir behind to Tom Moores.
Vince was then joined by Weatherley within the center who continued his effective kind from this season’s Blast into the semi-final.
Their 126 run partnership was considered one of their finest within the competitors to date, with Vince pulling one six so excessive over deep sq. leg that it was misplaced in one of many stands that’s being rebuilt.
Vince was finally caught at long-on after failing to attach a slower ball from former team-mate Benny Howell.
Weatherley continued to search out the boundary after Vince departed and completed with 5 fours and 5 sixes.
South Africa batter Tristan Stubbs joined Weatherley however may solely make eight earlier than fellow abroad participant Hilton Cartwright completed the innings with 19 off 9 balls.
After the Outlaws had survived the primary two overs of their reply, Hampshire struck within the third as George Munsey pulled a ball from Chris Wooden into the leg aspect the place Stubbs was in a position to take a easy catch.
Clarke and Jack Haynes then put Notts properly within the chase together with an enormous six from Clarke down the bottom that took the Outlaws to 50 after seven overs.
His half-century got here within the eleventh over with a high edge to 3rd man for 4 earlier than taking a single and elevating his bat to the Edgbaston crowd.
Clarke finally went for 64 off 43 balls, sending one excessive into the air from Fuller as Scott Currie took the catch, a couple of balls after England all-rounder Liam Dawson eliminated Haynes for 25.
From 102-3, the collapse continued.
Moores departed for 9 within the fifteenth over earlier than Chris Wooden then took his second wicket along with his first ball of the seventeenth taking South African George Linde who struck to long-off the place Currie took one other catch.
England paceman Sonny Baker claimed his first wicket within the 18th over, ripping Benny Howell’s center stump out the bottom earlier than Currie caught and bowled Liam Patterson-White.
Proper-armer Currie then took the wicket of Dillon Pennington along with his very subsequent ball, knocking the bails off the highest of his stumps.
Fuller took his third and fourth wickets of the sport within the ultimate over, bowling Joe Pocklington and Olly Stone as Notts had been bowled out with a ball to spare.
Hampshire Hawks will now tackle Northamptonshire Steelbacks within the T20 Blast ultimate with an 18:45 BST begin time.
