Beau Webster is back in his second season for Warwickshire
Australia all-rounder Beau Webster smashed the first T20 century of his career as Warwickshire Bears picked up their first win in this season's T20 Blast against holders Somerset.
Webster's 112 came off 61 deliveries, hitting nine fours. seven sixes, as he formed a third-wicket partnership with Dan Mousley (74 not out) worth 145 to help the Bears claim a six-wicket victory in a run-fest at Taunton.
Elsewhere. Yorkshire saw their North Group lead cut to four points as they slipped to a second defeat of the campaign away to Leicestershire.
Jonny Bairstow made a rapid 39,. the Tykes were dismissed for 135 as the Foxes sealed a third straight win.
Notts Outlaws also won a third straight match, beating Derbyshire, to go second - above Leicestershire on net run rate.
Sussex ended a run of four straight defeats by beating Kent to climb off the bottom of the South Group. leapfrogging Middlesex who were thrashed by second-placed Essex.
Rehan Ahmed took three wickets in his first T20 Blast match of the season on his return from England Lions duty
Nick Kelly gotLeicestershireoff to a good start against pacesettersYorkshire, making 44 off 31 balls,. when the New Zealander holed out off Hasan Ali it started a run of four wickets in 15 balls as they slumped from 90-2 to 96-6.
Ben Cox hit a defiant unbeaten 33,. Hasan (4-18) returned with two wickets in three balls as the Foxes were restricted to 147-8.
The total looked a meagre one when Bairstow. fresh from his 73 in Friday's Roses clash, smashed 39 off 21 balls before becoming the first of two wickets in Ian Holland's first over.
Will Luxton hit 38 off 27 balls to take Yorkshire to 100-3 in the 13th over,. the other Tykes batters struggled to get going as the home attack chipped away.
Aided by the farcical run-out of Moeen Ali for 11,. falling behind the rate required, the visitors lost their last seven wickets for 35 runs.
Nottinghamshireopener George Munsey set the tone at Trent Bridge with his second fifty in three matches, sharing stands of 50 with Joe Clarke. 67 with Jack Haynes, before falling for 53.
Haynes brought up his 50 off 35 balls,. went to the next delivery as Derbyshire fought back, but Tom Moores hoisted three sixes in a late cameo of 39 to lift the Outlaws to 183-6.
Pakistan pacer Mohammad Ali (3-25) continued his fine form by removing Aneurin Donald, Caleb Jewell. Matt Montgomery in the powerplay to check the Falcons' fast start.
Most of the Derbyshire batters made starts,. Wayne Madsen's 27 was the top score as Dillon Pennington also chipped in with three wickets to keep the visitors down to 173-9.
Lancashirefailed to bounce back from their heavy loss in the Roses match on Friday as they went down to a two-wicket defeat by Glamorgan in gloomy conditions at Blackpool.
Liam Livingstone fired 81 off 37 balls, launching eight sixes in his innings,. collected impressive figures of 3-13 for the Red Rose - and with two overs remaining, Glamorgan still needed 41 to win.
Chris Cooke's 44 not out off just 15 deliveries proved decisive though as Glamorgan chased down a target of 202 to snatch victory out of the jaws of defeat off the final ball.
Luc Benkenstein hit a career-best 67 in Essex's 60-run win
A third-wicket stand of 133 between Luc Benkenstein and Charlie Allison provided the backbone of theEssexinnings againstMiddlesexat Merchant Taylors' School.
Allison was the more aggressive with four sixes in a 37-ball 61. while Benkenstein made a T20 career-best 67 from a marginally more sedate 56 balls as the visitors set 176-5.
Zaman Akhter removed Josh de Caires. Ben Geddes in his first over to put the skids under the chase at 32-3.
Noah Thain repeated the trick with two wickets in his first over on his way to 3-11 as Middlesex were skittled for 116. despite 36 from Ryan Higgins, for a fifth Blast defeat of the season.
Kentwere looking to move within four points of South Group leaders Hampshire,. fell to a surprise second defeat of the campaign toSussexat Hove.
Sean Hunt (3-9) took two wickets in five balls, including Zak Crawley for a four-ball duck,. then caught Sam Billings off Tymal Mills in the next over to reduce Kent to 18-3.
It was 39-4 when Harry Finch (27) became Hunt's third victim before Joe Denly (42), Chris Benjamin (22). Keith Dudgeon (29 not out) led a partial recovery to 133-8.
Dudgeon then took two wickets in the Sussex powerplay, including John Simpson (33), but opener Dan Hughes hit an unbeaten 41. shared an unbroken 56-run stand with Oli Carter (32) as the hosts got home with 16 balls to spare.
Gloucestershire's Duan Jansen picked up 4-37 from his four overs
Warwickshirepicked up their first victory of the T20 Blast season against holdersSomerset,who succumbed to their fourth Blast defeat on the spin.
After being put into bat, Somerset were in a bit of bother at 98-4 after brothers James. Thomas Rew were dismissed in consecutive deliveries by Jordan Thompson.
But Jordan Hermann (90). Lewis Gregory (55) put on an unbeaten stand of 117 from the final eight overs as Somerset set Warwickshire a daunting looking target of 216.
When Webster was eventually dismissed for 112. caught by Alfie Ogborne off the bowling of Gregory, Somerset still looked in a decent position.
But Mousley crunched four consecutive boundaries in the penultimate over as the Bears got home with two balls to spare to pull off a club record T20 chase with Somerset's chances of defending their title quickly diminishing.
Gloucestershiremade it five wins from six in the Blast, picking up a slender three-run victory overWorcestershire Rapidsat Bristol, to go level on points with Northamptonshire at the top of the Central. West Group.
The home side recovered from 29-3 to end on 148-8 with Ben Charlesworth top-scoring with 49.
Four of Worcestershire's top five batters failed to reach double figures as Duan Jansen ripped through the top order. producing figures of 4-37.
Sikandar Raza's 47 off 31 gave the Rapids hope. Adam Finch was last man out when he was caught off the bowling of Matt Taylor as the visitors went down to just their second defeat of the competition.
Glamorganhave leapfrogged Worcestershire up to third following theirstunning win at Lancashire.
Cooke's four boundaries in the penultimate over gave them a chance and, with four runs needed off the final ball, Timm van der Gugten's exquisite ramp shot went to the boundary. claimed a third win in four.
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