Gloucestershire wins low score match against Wickwickshire T20 Blast

Birmingham Bears suffered a fourth consecutive quarter-final exit as Gloucestershire stunned the North Group winners with a 14-run victory in a tense, low-scoring contest at Edgbaston. The west field scratched into the keep going eight just on net run rate, completing fourth in the South Gathering, however will presently confront Sussex in the semi-last back on this ground on Saturday week. Gloucestershire had looked well under standard, hustling to 51 without misfortune from five overs in the wake of being placed in just to be bowled out for only 138. In any case, as left-arm speedy David Payne took 4 for 23, including two as he shielded 18 however yielded only three in the last finished, and spinner Ollie Cost 3 for 32, the Bears could gather just 124 for 9 in answer, Chris Benjamin's 33 a measly top score. Cameron Bancroft had top-scored for Gloucestershire with 43 of every 35 balls and opening accomplice Miles Hammond 30 from 24 however no other person bettered Jack Taylor's 19. Bears' New Zealand seamer Zak Foulkes took 3 for 22, spinners Danny Briggs and Dan Mousley getting two wickets each and George Garton executing two eminent run-outs with direct hits. Expecting to score at just shy of seven-an-over, Bears were 37 for 2 in the powerplay, 17 behind their adversaries at the relating point and with one less wicket close by. Payne, who opened with a lady, had Alex Davies gotten on the square leg limit and struck a significant disaster for the home side when Moeen Ali was out for 27. Payne had surrendered 16 of those himself as the Britain man hit him for six, four and six yet the following ball found the external edge and James Bracey took the catch. Like their partners in the principal innings, Bears attempted to recover their energy, losing Mousley leg before in an endeavored pull and Jacob Bethell got at additional cover, the two wickets tumbling to Ollie Cost, leaving them 59 for 4 in the 10th. That became 74 for 5 in the thirteenth as Value's offspin guaranteed its third casualty, Sam Hain releasing a transcending hit on the leg side yet neglecting to clear Hammond on the midwicket limit. Benjamin pounded six off Tom Smith and Garton took two fours off Cost to facilitate the strain however at that point Josh Shaw sloped it up again with two wickets in two balls as Garton holed out to long-off and Foulkes died leg previously. Everything boiled down to 18 expected off the last six balls, with Gloucestershire pace man and driving wicket-taker Payne beating the competition, surrendering only three and adding the wickets of Benjamin and Jake Lintott just in case as Cost and Bancroft held gets in the profound. Gloucestershire fans probably been expecting a major score when Hammond and Bancroft assisted them with putting 54 on the board from six. Bancroft's scoop got him two of three fours Foulkes' opening over and Hammond pulled Mousley for six however the offspinner had vengeance when Hammond was gotten by a tumbling Lintott at mid-off. The Bears spinners then, at that point, wrestled back control, Briggs beating Bracey's swing across the line for a leg previously, Ollie Cost top-edging a similar bowler to short fine leg. An opportunity was missed when Bancroft was dropped on 30, however the arrival of speed saw Jack Taylor's endeavored pull go vertical, dropping into the gloves of guardian Davies. Ben Charlesworth pummeled Moeen over the midwicket limit however died searching for a recurrent next ball and afterward Bancroft, for whom something significant now looked imperative, was splendidly run out by Garton's immediate hit from long-on. Alarm presently set in. Matt Taylor and Shaw were gotten off successive balls from Foulkes, another accuracy toss by Garton ran out Matt Taylor from mid-on and Payne cut Mousley in the air to in reverse point, leaving Gloucestershire all out for what resembled a genuinely under-standard 138, however ended up being sufficient.