Cricket
T20 Blast round-up: Patel hits 104 in tie, while Bears and Surrey win
Somerset shrugged off the early loss of Will Smeed, to post a score of 188-4 against Gloucestershire at Bristol, with opener Tom Banton making 79 off 53 balls.
They looked favourites when spinner Jack Leach (2-36) had Beau Webster caught to leave the home side on 108-5 in the 14th over – but Ben Charlesworth and Ollie Price rose to the challenge with an unbroken stand of 82.
Price hit four sixes in his 43 not out off just 15 balls, while Charlesworth made 36 off 19, to see them to 190-5 with eight balls remaining and inflict holders Somerset’s third defeat – the club’s second highest T20 chase.
In the final game of the day, Sussex moved up to second place with a seven-run victory over Hampshire at the Utilita Bowl after posting 184-8, despite figures of 3-32 by Michael Neser.
James Vince hit his first T20 half-century of the summer before being bowled by James Coles for 53 as he added 88 with Joe Weatherley.
Needing an unlikely 25 off the last over, Weatherley hit four successive fours off Danny Lamb to reach 68 not out off 47 balls, but a bye was all they could manage from the final two deliveries and finished on 177-3.