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Vitality Blast Finals Day, Edgbaston - Final
Somerset 124 (19.4 overs): Gregory 53; M Taylor 3-28, Payne 3-27
Gloucestershire 129-2 (14.5 overs): Hammond 58*, Bancroft 53
Gloucestershire triumph by 8 wickets
Gloucestershire won their archetypal T20 Blast rubric successful glorious benignant arsenic they comprehensively outplayed West Country rivals Somerset.
Openers Cameron Bancroft and Miles Hammond some deed half-centuries astatine Edgbaston arsenic they won by 8 wickets with 31 balls to spare.
Somerset's hopes of a trophy treble, which had been fixed specified a large boost by Thursday's sensational County Championship triumph implicit Surrey, accrued erstwhile they bushed Surrey again successful a well-contested semi-final.
But that treble imagination ended erstwhile they proved to beryllium simply nary lucifer for a Gloucestershire broadside who came from obscurity to compression done successful the Southern Group, past followed it up with 3 consecutive Edgbaston wins.
The unlikely quarter-final triumph implicit Birmingham Bears eight days ago, Saturday afternoon's eight-wicket triumph implicit Sussex and past this repetition eight-wicket walloping earned Gloucestershire their archetypal knockout trophy triumph since 2015.
Somerset inactive person the Championship rubric and the One-Day Cup to spell at, Gloucestershire became the 14th broadside to triumph the T20 - leaving Yorkshire, Durham, Derbyshire and Glamorgan arsenic the lone 4 sides who person not done so.
After being inserted by Gloucestershire, Tom Kohler-Cadmore got implicit his semi-final aureate duck to marque a agleam commencement with Will Smeed, smashing 28 disconnected the archetypal 3 overs.
But Somerset past wobbled arsenic Smeed steered Matt Taylor's archetypal shot consecutive to backward point. And Taylor past added a 2nd wicket successful the implicit erstwhile helium deceived Kohler-Cadmore with his slower shot and Tom Price took an off-side catch.
Taylor past had different disconnected the last shot of his adjacent implicit erstwhile James Rew was caught successful the covers by a diving Cameron Bancroft. And, conscionable 2 balls later, Somerset's different semi-final half-centurion leader Sean Dickson besides fell cheaply archetypal shot erstwhile helium reverse-swept into his limb stump, disconnected Ollie Price.
Tom Abell perished to Tom Price astatine agelong on, past David Payne struck doubly successful 2 balls erstwhile Benny Green was caught disconnected a starring borderline astatine backward constituent and Craig Overton looped a slower transportation to Jack Taylor diving guardant to instrumentality the drawback astatine mid off.
After Roelof van der Merwe was caught behind, skipper Gregory eked a fewer much to spell to his half-century earlier helium was ninth retired and Jake Ball was past retired successful the last over.
But 124 - the lowest first-innings people successful a T20 last since Warwickshire made conscionable 115 successful the precise archetypal last successful 2003 - ne'er looked astir enough.
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