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Vitality Blast quarter-final, The Spitfire Ground, St Lawrence, Canterbury |
Kent 162-7 (20 overs): Billings 56, Bell-Drummond 53; Bresnan 4-26 |
Birmingham Bears 141 (20 overs): Lintott 41; Milnes 3-24 |
Kent beat Birmingham Bears by 21 runs |
Match scorecard |
Kent sealed a clean sweep for the South Group sides in the T20 Blast quarter-finals as they booked a place at Finals Day for the first time in 12 years.
Sam Billings led from the front with 56 as Kent beat Birmingham Bears to join Somerset, Hampshire and Sussex in the last four of the competition.
Chasing 162-7 under the Canterbury lights, the Bears buckled from 36-1 to 55-6 to lose by 21 runs on 141.
Kent, 2007 winners, face 2009 victors Sussex at Edgbaston on 18 September.
Hampshire and Somerset will meet in the other semi-final, a repeat of the 2010 final.
Billings and Daniel Bell-Drummond (53) each took 37 balls to ease…
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