T20 Blast: Hampshire Hawks upset holders Notts Outlaws to achieve Finals Day

Liam Dawson takes a wicket for Hampshire

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Hampshire will be at Finals Day for the first time since 2015
Vitality Blast quarter-final, Trent Bridge
Notts Outlaws 125-9 (20 overs): Prest 44, Fuller 30; Paterson 3-22
Hampshire Hawks 123 (19.4 overs): Clarke 42; Dawson 3-24
Match scorecard

Notts Outlaws missed out on a fifth Finals Day appearance in six years as Hampshire pulled off a thrilling two-run T20 Blast win at Trent Bridge.

The visitors were reduced to 40-5, having been asked to bat first, and could only manage a score of 125-9.

Opener Joe Clarke made 42, passing 400 runs in this year’s competition, before his dismissal turned the game.

Notts needed three off the last over, but Dane Paterson was caught behind as they were all out for 123.

The Outlaws have been the dominant force in English domestic T20 cricket in recent years, lifting the trophy in 2017 and 2020 and also reaching Finals Day in 2016 and 2019.

And Hampshire went into the game without all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme, who is preparing for New Zealand’s T20 series in…

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