Hampshire paceman John Turner has now taken 20 T20 wickets this seasonVitality Blast, Ageas BowlWorcestershire Rapids 100 (17.5 overs): Usama Mir 39, Pollock 24*; Ellis 4-6, Turner 2-19Hampshire Hawks 102-5 (15.3 overs): Prest 25, Weatherley 25; Finch 2-18, Usama Mir 2-20Hampshire win by five wicketsMatch scorecard
Hampshire Hawks secured their place at T20 Finals Day for a record 10th time as they eased to a five-wicket quarter-final win over Worcestershire Rapids.
Hampshire bowled out the visitors for just 100, with 13 balls unused.
They then reached their target with 27 balls to spare on 102-5 to complete an all-southern Finals Day for the second time in three years alongside Essex, Surrey and Somerset.
Hampshire will play Essex, who beat Birmingham Bears on Thursday, in one of the semi-finals at Edgbaston on 15 July.
Any realistic hopes of reaching a third Finals Day were over in little more than half an hour for Worcestershire when the visitors found themselves 29-6 inside seven overs.
They failed to deal with the Hampshire pacemen, spearheaded by John Turner.
A 70-run stand for the seventh wicket from Usama Mir and Ed Pollock gave the Pears slim hope. But Mir holed out the ball after getting a single to bring the hundred up and the visitors could not manage another run.
All the last three wickets went down on the same score in just four balls as Nathan Ellis (4-6), removed Adam Finch, Notts-bound Dillon Pennington and Pat Brown to end the hapless Pears’ innings.
Worcestershire needed early wickets and, although they did get Nye Donald, it was the penultimate ball of the Powerplay before they made another breakthrough, to remove home skipper James Vince – a second scalp for Finch.
Tom Prest (25) and Liam Dawson followed to spinners Mitch Santner and Mir but there was never any serious danger of the hosts collapsing and Joe Weatherley and former Pears favourite Ross Whitely put on 27 to steer their team within six of victory.
Weatherley holed out – but Whiteley was…
..
