Middlesex off the mark, Northamptonshire win again on busy Blast Sunday

MEN'S T20 BLAST ROUNDUP: Lancashire have now lost their last two after beginning with three straight wins, while Yorkshire and Birmingham Bears also won emphatically

North Group

Old Trafford: Northamptonshire 180-6, Lancashire 156-9 - Northamptonshire won by 24 runs

Northamptonshire Steelbacks maintained their 100% start in this year’s T20 Blast when they defeated Lancashire Lightning by 24 runs at Old Trafford to make it five wins in succession.

Having posted 180 for 6, in which skipper David Willey top-scored with 37, the visitors produced a determined display in the field.

George Scrimshaw led the way with career-best T20 figures of 4 for 19 from his four overs, as Lancashire ended on 156 for 9.

The prized wicket of Liam Livingstone, who was playing his first match after his IPL triumph, was claimed by Lloyd Pope, who finished with two for 27.

Having won their first three T20 games, Lancashire have now lost two on the trot, both at home.

Headingley: Yorkshire 213-7, Leicestershire 107 - Yorkshire won by 106 runs

Captain Dawid Malan became the fifth English batter to reach 10,000 career T20 runs at the start of a superb 88, which helped his Yorkshire side achieve their first T20 Blast win of the season at the expense of Leicestershire Foxes at Headingley.

The former England left-hander hit five sixes in an opening 48-ball knock which helped his side, on the back of three North Group defeats, set the Foxes an imposing 214-target that was never threatened. 

Yorkshire's 213 for 7 was underpinned by Malan and his second-wicket partner Will Luxton, whose 62 off 34 balls from number three represented a maiden career fifty in this format in his ninth match. They shared 132 inside 12 overs. 

Leicestershire, in suffering their second defeat in five, were bowled out for 107 inside 17 overs and suffered their heaviest ever runs defeat in this format - by 106 runs. Leg-spinner Jafer Chohan claimed 4 for 27. 

^{Dawid Malan was in the runs for Yorkshire (Stu Forster/Getty Images)}

Edgbaston: Birmingham Bears 199-6, Derbyshire 141 - Birmingham Bears win by 58 runs

Warwickshire Bears completed back-to-back home wins with a 58-run victory over struggling Derbyshire Falcons at Edgbaston.

The Bears piled up 199 for 6 against the injury-hit Falcons. Opening pair Tom Latham (58) and Alex Davies (49) provided a strong launchpad before the visitors reined the scoring in a little, Pat Brown taking 3 for 40.

It was more than enough though as the Falcons replied with 141 all out in 19.1 overs. There was no way back from the dire start of 29 for 4, and their fourth defeat in four duly followed.

Ross Whiteley hit 50 and Wayne Madsen 46, but Hasan Ali added four late wickets, including a hat-trick, to his two early ones to finish with 6 for 23 while George Garton equalled the T20 world record of five catches by a non-wicketkeeper.

^{James Coles has been one of the competition's in-form players (Warren Little/Getty Images)}

South Group

Chelmsford: Essex 156, Middlesex 159-4 - Middlesex won by six wickets

Stephen Eskinazi put pointless Essex to the sword as his 72 gave Middlesex their first T20 Blast victory of the season.

The hosts had lost six wickets in 29 balls to hinder their batting effort, although Simon Harmer’s T20 best for Essex – a brisk 41 – helped his side to a semi-respectable 156.

Eskinazi hammered his 23rd T20 fifty in style, but Ben Geddes' six-fuelled 30 off 11 took the visitors to victory with 15 balls to spare, and kept Essex winless in the competition.

Canterbury: Hampshire 177-7, Kent 181-2 - Kent won by eight wickets

Kent Spitfires have handed the Hampshire Hawks their first defeat of the T20 Blast season, pummelling them by eight wickets at Canterbury.

The Hawks had the misfortune to run into a fully armed and operational Zak Crawley: the England man hit 75 off 43 balls, including three sixes, and he enjoyed a stand of 110 with Daniel Bell-Drummond, who made 61 from 40. 

Earlier, Joe Weatherley hit an unbeaten 63 as Hampshire recovered from 63 for 4 to post 177 for 7, with Tom Rogers posting Kent's best figures with 3 for 33.

But as soon as Kent took 22 from the 11th over, they looked favourites and they coasted home with an over to spare.

^{Middlesex found their first win of the campaign at Chelmsford (Warren Little/Getty Images)}

Hove: Sussex 195-4, Glamorgan 117 - Sussex won by 78 runs

Sussex Sharks made it three wins out of four in the Vitality Blast when they outplayed Glamorgan at Hove, winning by 78 runs with 4.4 overs to spare.

First James Coles led the way with the bat, with an unbeaten 75, before Nathan McAndrew took over with the ball, with figures of 5 for 19 from his four overs.

At one point Glamorgan, who had also won two out of three before this fixture, were 49 for 7 and appeared to be heading for an even heavier defeat.

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