T20 Blast: Steven Croft plays as Lancashire beat Essex by seven wickets to reach final day
T20 Blast: Steven Croft plays as Lancashire beat Essex by seven wickets to reach final day
Vitality Blast quarter-final, Emirates Old TraffordEs sex Eagles 161-5 (20 overs): Pepper 36, Walter 34*; Wood 2-28Lancashire Lightning 162-3 (15.4 overs): Croft 76*, Vilas 51, Salt 27 Lancashire beat Essex by seven wicketsMatch scorecard
Veteran Steven Croft beat a stunning unbeaten 76, aided by skipper Dane Vilas (51 from 23 balls) and England's Phil Salt (27), as they won easily.
Essex, who beat Lancashire twice in the round of 16, went 161-5.
But it was the third time lucky as the 2015 winners tied Hampshire in reaching a joint record for the ninth day of the final.
After such an exhilarating night in front of an almost sold-out Old Trafford, the Lancashire will now return to Birmingham to face a semi-final encounter with c the final ball heroes of the Oval, Yorkshire, in eight days' time - for what will be the Finals Day Roses opener.
Hampshire will meet the winners of Saturday's Somerset-Derbyshire quarter-final in the first semi-final.
Vitality Blast quarter-final, Emirates Old TraffordEs sex Eagles 161-5 (20 overs): Pepper 36, Walter 34*; Wood 2-28Lancashire Lightning 162-3 (15.4 overs): Croft 76*, Vilas 51, Salt 27 Lancashire beat Essex by seven wicketsMatch scorecard
Veteran Steven Croft beat a stunning unbeaten 76, aided by skipper Dane Vilas (51 from 23 balls) and England's Phil Salt (27), as they won easily.
Essex, who beat Lancashire twice in the round of 16, went 161-5.
But it was the third time lucky as the 2015 winners tied Hampshire in reaching a joint record for the ninth day of the final.
After such an exhilarating night in front of an almost sold-out Old Trafford, the Lancashire will now return to Birmingham to face a semi-final encounter with c the final ball heroes of the Oval, Yorkshire, in eight days' time - for what will be the Finals Day Roses opener.
Hampshire will meet the winners of Saturday's Somerset-Derbyshire quarter-final in the first semi-final.
