Match Details

KT vs SOM 2nd Match, T20 Blast 2022

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SOM
166-219.1
Somerset won by 8 wickets 🏆
KT
20.0162-6
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17th Over:
0
2
4
6
1
2
 
= 15
18th Over:
4
1
6
1
1
4
 
= 17
Last Over:
3
1
1
1
1
1
 
= 8
This Over:
4
 
= 4

Player of the Match

Rilee Rossouw Logo
Rilee Rossouw Jersy
Rilee Rossouw
Somerset
81(54)
SOMSOM - 2nd Innings
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6 Over 4938
10 Over 7062
15 Over 107108
KTKT - 1st Innings
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6 Over 5030
10 Over 6052

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2.50 AM IST| Hope you have enjoyed our live coverage of the T20 Vitality Blast between Kent and Somerset from the St Lawrence Ground Canterbury, in Kent. This is Tugral Azmi signing off along with my fellow commentators AkshayaKrishna Polya and Ajay Ahire along with our scorer Raju Khariya. Join us tomorrow for another exciting match sharp at 11.00 PM IST until then it's goodnight and goodbye.

Rilee Rossouw | Player of the Match: "Happy to be score some runs for the team and make them win on my debut game. No, no it was a little difficult to bat in the first innings more so. Our bowlers did bowl well, taking I think three wickets early on! For us, Banton and Smeedy did give a good platform. I just followed the process and batted through. It was a good partnership involving with my skipper. Kent did bowl well but we were strong enough to negate it. Our coaching staffs did tell us about their strengths in the bowling at the mid innings and it help us in a great way. It was a great win and happy to to start off with a win."   
Tom Abell | Somerset Captain: "Yeah, thanks for reminding. Yeah, our records weren't good. Yeah, it was a great game and we are happy to start well. We started off really well with the ball. I thought I made a tactical error by giving a over to the left-arm spinner to the left-handed batter. With short leg side boundary it was a blunder I guess. But we have done well in terms of restricting them to 160 odd. It was a great innings from Rossouw. He played really well and took us past the victory line. Haha, it is a bit hectic work as a captain. Last time he was the skipper and did well, until the finals came. Yeah, happy for the boys and we will hope that we will continue the winning momentum."
Sam Billings | Kent Spitfires Captain: "To be honest the conditions were tricky. The decision was wrong to bat first. But they used the conditions to their advantage and went on to win the game. Jack went very smart throughout his innings and he made most out of the breeze, one over shifted the momentum towards him. Jack is experienced and he knows his game really well and again a top-quality class from him. With Rilee Rossouw, I can't bowl too much leg-spin in front of him and unfortunately failed to get the wicket. It's a long tournament and it's great to get the performance like this away early."

2.30 AM IST! Tugral: Somerset won the toss and decided to bowl and this decision appeared to be going in their favor. Somerset beat last season's winner by 8 wickets and 5 balls. When the Somerset openers came down to chase the target of 160 runs, both the openers started slow and Matt caught Tom Banton at square leg on his length delivery score of 9 runs. Somerset got the first blow for just 19 runs. Rilee Rossouw came to support Will Smeed, both of them played good shots but the partnership could not last long. Another blow to Somerset came in the form of Will when the team’s score was 45 and both the openers returned to the pavilion.

After Smeed was dismissed, team skipper Abell joined Rossouw in the middle. When both of them handled Somerset’s innings, Somerset needed 116 runs to win from 78 balls. Both the batters respected the good balls and did not delay in sending the bad ball outside the boundary. Rossouw played an unbeaten 81* in which he hit six fours and two sixes. From the other end, the Somerset Captain supported Rossouw and played an unbeaten knock of 48* runs to give his team a fine match win. Rossouw and Abell put on a 121-run partnership for the third wicket and turned the match in Somerset's favor. Fred Klassen and Matt Milnes were the picks of the bowler as both of them picked up one wicket each.


Kent did not have a good start when they came out to bat on the score of just 33 runs Kent's top and middle-order batters had returned to the pavilion. Leaning did the job of saving Kent's sinking innings, he took some time to settle down in the middle, after that he washed all the bowlers of Somerset and he played an unbeaten knock of 72* in which he hit 2 fours and 5 sixes. From the other end, Leaning was supported by Cox, who could not run the innings for long but made an important partnership of 52 runs. Then Jack Leaning and George Linde gave some stability to the Kent innings and scored some valuable runs for the team. Jack Leaning notched up his fifty in the first match of the campaign. George Linde scored a quickfire 29 runs from 15 balls. Grant Stewart struck a couple of fours in the end as he scored quick 14 runs from 8 balls. Leaning smoked a huge six in the last over to take his team past the 160 mark and he remained unbeaten on the score of 72. Lewis Gregory was the pick of the bowler as he picked up 3 wickets in his 4 over spell.

19.1 F Klaassen to R Rossouw
4 FOURRR!!! That's it! Fred Klaassen is back from over the wicket. Fuller length delivery and outside the off. Rossouw on the front foot thumps it with a flat batted shot. All along the ground past to the right of the bowler straight down the ground for a boundary. Cracking way to finish the game as Rossouw announces himself here!!! Somerset takes the revenge for the previous edition's final's loss by beating Kent Spitfires by 8-wickets!
OVER 19
Somerset
162/2
Tom Abell
48(29)
Rilee Rossouw
77(53)
George Linde
0-15(2.0)
18.6 G Linde to R Rossouw
1 Fuller and slower outside the off. Rossouw makes room and drive sit to the right of short extra covers where the fielder dives well and saves the boundary. Rossouw takes a quick single. Throw was in at the bowler's end and was collected by the bowler as he takes the bails off. But the batter has made it.
18.5 G Linde to T Abell
1 Fuller length delivery and tosses it too. It was around the off stump line. Abell on the front foot drives it to long off for a single.
18.4 G Linde to R Rossouw
1 Fuller and on the leg stump line. Rossouw makes room and pushes it to long on for a single.
18.3 G Linde to T Abell
1 Tosses it fuller and on the off. Abell on the front foot drives it to long off for a single.
18.2 G Linde to R Rossouw
1 Fuller length and on the stumps. Rossouw sits down on one knee and reverses it to short third man for a single.
18.1 G Linde to T Abell
3 George Linde is back into the wicket. Short and outside the off. Abell on the back foot plays a cut down to deep backward point as the fielder chase sit from point and parries it back with a slide. Triple taken by these two.
Ajay: Just 9 needed now off the last 12 balls. Rossouw and Abell are taking Somerset home pretty easily in the end. 
OVER 18
Somerset
154/2
Rilee Rossouw
74(50)
Tom Abell
43(26)
Matt Milnes
1-36(4.0)
17.6 M Milnes to R Rossouw
4 FOURRRR!!! Mid off is in and Rossouw goes well over him for a boundary. Fuller length delivery and on the fourth stump line. Rossouw bends low and lifts it with a straight bat. A glorious lofted off drive with a full flow of the bat as it goes over Zak Crawley for a boundary to long off.
17.5 M Milnes to T Abell
1 Good length delivery on the fourth stump line. Abell on the back foot drops it to silly point area for a quick single.
Ajay: Rilee Rossouw man...What a clean hitter of the ball. He is playing a gem of an innings here at Canterbury.
17.4 M Milnes to R Rossouw
1 Short delivery and outside the off. Rossouw on the back foot cuts it to deep covers for a single.
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