North Group winners Birmingham Bears are in search of a seventh straight win of their closing group recreation towards Durham

It’s the closing day of the group video games on this 12 months’s T20 Blast – and by the tip of Sunday night, the eight quarter-finalists might be identified.

To date, solely the 2 group winners, Somerset and the Birmingham Bears have booked their locations within the final eight. The truth is, they each already know they’ve house ties – on Friday and Thursday respectively.

However there are six different quarter-final locations up for grabs, with 10 sides nonetheless within the working.

The opposite two quarter-finals are each to be performed on Thursday and Friday.

In South Group, second-placed Surrey, third-placed Hampshire, fourth-placed Kent and fifth-placed Essex are preventing it out to hitch Somerset within the final eight.

And, so as to add to the drama, the ultimate place won’t be sorted till late on Sunday night as, though seven of the eight group video games are within the afternoon, Somerset v Kent is a night fixture.

In North Group, six golf equipment are nonetheless concerned within the Sunday shake-up. Even Northants, in seventh, with their superior run charge, might nonetheless sneak in in the event that they beat Lancashire, and each Notts and Derbyshire lose.

Sunday’s video games (14:30 BST except said)

North Group

Derby: Derbyshire v Worcestershire Rapids

Emirates Outdated Trafford: Lancashire Lightning v Northants Steelbacks

Trent Bridge: Notts Outlaws v Leicestershire Foxes

Edgbaston: Birmingham Bears v Durham

South Group

Sophia Gardens: Glamorgan v Middlesex

Ageas Bowl: Hampshire Hawks v Gloucestershire

The Kia Oval: Surrey v Essex

Taunton: Somerset v Kent Spitfires (18:30 BST)

Quarter-Finals

6 July: Birmingham Bears v South Group 4th (18:30 BST)

7 July: Somerset v North Group 4th (18:30 BST)

To be determined:

North Group 2nd v South Group third

South Group 2nd v North Group third

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