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English County Twenty20 Championship

The English county Twenty20 matches are into the final stages with two quarter finals scheduled for tonight and another two for tommorrow night. Tonight Gloucestershire play Worcestershire and Nottinghamshire play kent. Tommorrow night Warwickshire play Lancashire and Sussex play Yorkshire. The winners of these matches will advance into the semi-finals.

The Australians playing in these games are:

Ben Edmondson - Gloucestershire
Phil Jacques, Doug Bollinger - Worcestershire
Brad Hodge - Lancashire
Jason Gillespie - Yorkshire
David Hussey - Nottinghamshire

Lets just hope that it doesn't rain in England and they can play these games as alot of the Twenty20 games so far have been either reduced in the number of overs or abandoned.
 
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Worcestershire - 6/123 (17overs) - Phil Jacques 1 run off 6 balls, Doug Bollinger did not play
Gloucestershire - 3/131 (14.1overs) - Ben Edmondson 4 overs 1/35

Nottinghamshire v Kent - No play today, to be played tommorrow night along with the other two matches
 
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Jolldo87;170036 said:
...Brad Hodge - Lancashire
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didn't he just leave the team for some reason (unknown)?
 
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BigJeff;170123 said:
didn't he just leave the team for some reason (unknown)?
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yeah your right i didn't know that - here is part of an article off the Lancashire Cricket Club site:

"Lancashire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce that Indian Batsman VVS (Vangipurappu) Laxman will join the Club at the completion of the Test Series against England, subject to final approval from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

This is Lancashire’s fourth overseas signing for the current season, with Laxman due to replace Brad Hodge who returns to Australia for a scheduled training camp ahead of the ICC Twenty20 World Cup"
 
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Nottinghamshire 138 - (20 overs) - David Hussey 7 runs off 12 balls
v
Kent 1/139 - (19.5 overs)

Lancashire 5/193 - (20 overs) - Brad Hodge 26 off 22 balls and 2 overs 1/23, Stuart Law 44 off 31 balls
v
Warwickshire 7/187 - (20 overs)

Sussex 5/193 - (20 overs)
v
Yorkshire 155 - (19.5 overs) - Jason Gillespie 1 not out off 1 ball and 3 overs 0/25

Brad Hodge did play despite the above posts.
 
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Gloucestershire play Lancashire in the first semi-final and Kent play Sussex in the second. These matches are scheduled for the 4th of August with the final to be played on the same day after the completion of these matches.
 
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1st Semi Final:Gloucstershire won the toss and elected to field. Lancashire only managed 6/148 off their 20 overs which in a Twenty20 game you will struggle to defend. Steve Croft top scored with 33 off 29 balls and Brad Hodge got 32 off only 19 balls. Mark Hardinges got 2 wickets and Jon Lewis and Carl Greenidge each took one and their were 2 runouts.

Gloucestershire then batted and got the runs off only 16.5 overs for the loss of only 2 wickets. Craig Spearman top scored with 86 off only 55 balls and Kadeer Ali got 33 off 32 balls. Muralitharan and Flintoff each took 1 wicket. So this meant Gloucestershire were through to the final to face the winner of the 2nd Semi.
 
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2nd Semi Final: Sussex won the toss and elected to bat first. Sussex only managed 140 all out off 19.2 overs. Murray Goowin top scored with 38 off 35 with Chris Nash getting 37 off 16 and Naved-ul-Hasan getting 23 off 17. Lasith Malinga was the best of the bowlers taking 3 whilst James Tredwell took 2 with singles to Ryan McLaren and Darren Stevens and their were 3 run outs.

Kent then batted and got the runs with 4 balls to spare and 5 wickets in hand. Robert Key batted through the innings and got 68 off 54. Without him Kent would have struggled to win this match. Joe Denly was the second highest scorer with 31 off 20 and Matt Walker getting 18 off 24. Other than these batsman the rest failed with no one else making it past 2 runs. For the bowlers their were no multiple wicket takers with Naved-ul-Hasan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq, Michael Yardy and James Kirtley each taking one wicket. The result of this game meant that Kent would face Gloucestershire in the final
 
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Final The final of the Twenty20 competition was to be fought between Gloucestershire and Kent. Kent won the toss and elected to field which meant Gloucestershire were batting. The opener Hamish Marshall top scored with 65 off 49 balls, Mark Hardinges got 39 off 35 and Jon Lewis made a timely captains knock with 17 runs off 10 balls whilst none of the other batsman passed double figures. In total they ended up with 8/146 off 20 overs. For Kent Ryan McLaren took 3, Yasir Arafat got 2 with singles to Lasith Malinga and Simon Cook and one run out.

Kent then batted and got Gloucestershire's total with 3 balls and 4 wickets to spare. Matt Walker top scored with 45 runs off 35 balls, Darren Stevens got 30 not out off 21 balls and Joe Denly got 28 runs off 26 balls. Jon Lewis and Mark Hardinges each got two wickets and Carl Greenidge got one and their was a run out.

Congratulations on Ryan Mclaren who set up the final win with a hat-trick for Kent.

That wraps up the County Twenty20 championship for 2007 with Kent the winners.
 
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