One-Day Cup 2024 roundup: Warwickshire and Leicestershire complete semi-final lineup

The Cricketer wraps up the best of the action from the two quarter-finals in the 2024 Metro Bank One-Day Cup

Edgbaston: Worcestershire 286-9, Warwickshire 288-6 - Warwickshire won by four wickets

Warwickshire will visit Glamorgan in the Metro Bank One Day Cup semi-finals after a dazzling maiden List A century from Kai Smith powered them to a four-wicket victory over Worcestershire at Edgbaston.

The defacto hosts were in deep trouble when chasing 286, they hit 77 for 5, but Smith, whose previous List A best was 44, smashed an unbeaten 130 from 104 balls. A sixth-wicket stand of 181 in 163 balls between Smith and Will Rhodes (75, 107) saw the Bears to 288 for six with six balls to spare.

It was a devastating turnaround for injury-ravaged Worcestershire who had totalled 286 for nine thanks to a stylish century from Jake Libby. Already the national leading run-scorer in this year’s Metro Bank One Day Cup, the captain struck 112 from 115 balls to build on a platform set by Ed Pollock’s 54 (64 balls).

Early wickets then put Worcestershire in command but 19-year-old Smith played with freedom, fluency and not a trace of nerves to book his side a semi-final in south Wales on Sunday (August 18).

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Liam Trevaskis dismissed Tom Prest before helping Leicestershire knock off their target (Dan Istitene/Getty Images)

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Grace Road: Hampshire 290-8, Leicestershire 291-7 - Leicestershire won by three wickets

Holders Leicestershire Foxes advanced one step closer to retaining their One-Day Cup crown, defeating Hampshire by three wickets with just one ball to spare at the Uptonsteel County Ground in a thrilling repeat of last year’s final.

Hampshire skipper Nick Gubbins made a superb 136, backed up by Liam Dawson's 50 with 18-year-old Dominic Kelly hitting 39 from just 20 balls to post 290 for 8 from 50 overs after Tom Scriven (3for 61) and Chris Wright (2 for 49) had led the Leicestershire bowlers in keeping the total below 300 on an excellent batting wicket.

In reply, Leicestershire's star duo of Australian Peter Handscomb (74) and India's Ajinkya Rahane (70) shared a fourth-wicket stand of 128 - their third 100-plus partnership of the competition.

Once those two were both back in the pavilion, Hampshire, for whom John Turner took 4 for 44, will have fancied themselves to avenge their defeat in last season’s Trent Bridge finale - yet though they fought until the end, the task proved just beyond them after seventh-wicket pair Liam Trevaskis (60 off 55 balls ) and Ben Cox (45 off 50), had added 94 in 82 balls with Trevaskis hitting two sixes and four fours.

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