Somerset look well placed to reach the quarter-finals of the T20 Blast after three wins in four days
By Gary Naylor for the 99.94
Cricket Blog
With four teams from each group to qualify for the quarter-finals, now is a good time to go on a little trot and Somerset, hitherto strangely out of sorts in this competition, did exactly that with three wins from three matches. The tactic was simple – make 200+ to overwhelm opponents, who then never get into the chase. While Tom Banton (within a late-season Championship century of breaking Jason Roy’s record of the youngest
England qualified player to make a ton in all three formats), is gathering plenty of praise – including in this column last week – he’s not alone in monstering attacks. Babar Azam averages 62 striking at 153, and the increasingly impressive Tom Abell’s figures are almost as eye-catching at 43 and 172. With Lewis Gregory not in the side last week, Abell’s captaincy magic was working yet again too – could Ed Smith be watching and wondering?