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- Updated: August 2, 2016
Somerset 250 for 9 (Allenby 69, Jayawardene 55) beat Hampshire 245 (Smith 59, Adams 50, Groenewald 3-56) by five runsScorecard
Mahela Jayawardene and Jim Allenby both scored half-centuries to set Somerset up for a five run victory, knocking Hampshire out of the Royal London Cup in the process. Somerset already had their South Group top spot guaranteed with Essex’s washed out game at Gloucestershire and will face Worcestershire in the quarter finals.
Hampshire went into the final over needing 14 to win with two wickets in hand but Gareth Andrew fell to Tim Groenewald’s first ball, via a steepling catch. Mason Crane and Brad Wheal scampered nine off the next four deliveries but Groenewald sealed victory with a catch off his own bowling.
Two wickets a piece from Lewis Gregory, Roelof van der Merwe and Max Waller helped complete the victory in tense circumstances.
Jayawardene and Allenby, who had won the toss and batted in gloomy conditions, appeared in little trouble as they put on 108 for the first wicket. Former Sri Lanka international Jayawardene was the first to reach fifty, from 54 balls, before he was followed to the milestone …
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