One-Day Cup: Sussex and Hampshire win to claim semi-finals at home

Cheteshwar Pujara

Tom Alsop hit 189 on 155 balls and Cheteshwar Pujara 132 in Sussex's 400-4, their most top List A total, as they beat Middlesex by 157 points.

< p class="" data-reactid=".128fd74fhkg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3">The 313-9 of Hampshire helped them beat Yorkshire by 72 at Scarborough.

Kent's three-wicket win over Lancashire knocked out holders Glamorgan, while Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire also won Friday's quarter-finals.

Leicestershire will host Kent, with Notts away to Lancashire - who still finished second in Group B despite losing - on the same day, with the winners progressing to the semi-finals on August 30.

Sam Northeast hit 177 from 148 balls for Glamorgan and Billy Root hit an unbeaten 113 as they beat Worcestershi re - their stand of 245 a new club record for fourth wicket against all opposition in List A matches - but that wasn't enough to get them through to the knockout stage.

Group One

Sussex broke their own record 50 points in the winners' clash with Middlesex at Hove.

The hosts had already plundered four scores over 300 in this competition this summer, but this time they really pushed, thanks in large part to the 240 third-wicket stand run between Alsop and Pujara, who made his third ton in four innings.

Alsop broke five sixes in his career-best score a when Sussex fired an astonishing 249 over the last 20 overs.

It was the first time when Sussex had come to 400 in List A cricket, but the previous record, 399-4, was set 10 overs under, in a CB40 win over Worcestershire in 2011. A disheartening total, Joe Cracknell has topped the score with 71 as they were knocked out for 243 - to drop from top of the group at the start of the day to fourth.

"Puj has such a calming influence. He seems to have everything under control. He understands the game so well, and we feed off of him," Alsop said.

Leicestershire qualified second after a nervy win over Durham, who lost for the seventh time in eight games to finish scoreless bottom of the group.

After Durham were knocked out for 197, veteran seamstress Chris Rushworth took three quick wickets to cut the Foxes to 158-8.

But an unbroken ninth wicket of 30 between bowlers Beuran Hendricks and Eddie Barnes saw Leicestershire at home, to follow earlier half-centuries of Rishi Patel and Arron Lilley.

< p class="" data-reactid=".128fd74fhkg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-18">It had looked like it was going to be a much more comfortable win when Durham collapsed to 54-7, but Stanley, 18 year-old McAlindon, number 10 at bat, reached his first half-century, before then taking 4-29.

One-Day Cup: Sussex and Hampshire win to claim semi-finals at home
Cheteshwar Pujara

Tom Alsop hit 189 on 155 balls and Cheteshwar Pujara 132 in Sussex's 400-4, their most top List A total, as they beat Middlesex by 157 points.

< p class="" data-reactid=".128fd74fhkg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3">The 313-9 of Hampshire helped them beat Yorkshire by 72 at Scarborough.

Kent's three-wicket win over Lancashire knocked out holders Glamorgan, while Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire also won Friday's quarter-finals.

Leicestershire will host Kent, with Notts away to Lancashire - who still finished second in Group B despite losing - on the same day, with the winners progressing to the semi-finals on August 30.

Sam Northeast hit 177 from 148 balls for Glamorgan and Billy Root hit an unbeaten 113 as they beat Worcestershi re - their stand of 245 a new club record for fourth wicket against all opposition in List A matches - but that wasn't enough to get them through to the knockout stage.

Group One

Sussex broke their own record 50 points in the winners' clash with Middlesex at Hove.

The hosts had already plundered four scores over 300 in this competition this summer, but this time they really pushed, thanks in large part to the 240 third-wicket stand run between Alsop and Pujara, who made his third ton in four innings.

Alsop broke five sixes in his career-best score a when Sussex fired an astonishing 249 over the last 20 overs.

It was the first time when Sussex had come to 400 in List A cricket, but the previous record, 399-4, was set 10 overs under, in a CB40 win over Worcestershire in 2011. A disheartening total, Joe Cracknell has topped the score with 71 as they were knocked out for 243 - to drop from top of the group at the start of the day to fourth.

"Puj has such a calming influence. He seems to have everything under control. He understands the game so well, and we feed off of him," Alsop said.

Leicestershire qualified second after a nervy win over Durham, who lost for the seventh time in eight games to finish scoreless bottom of the group.

After Durham were knocked out for 197, veteran seamstress Chris Rushworth took three quick wickets to cut the Foxes to 158-8.

But an unbroken ninth wicket of 30 between bowlers Beuran Hendricks and Eddie Barnes saw Leicestershire at home, to follow earlier half-centuries of Rishi Patel and Arron Lilley.

< p class="" data-reactid=".128fd74fhkg.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-18">It had looked like it was going to be a much more comfortable win when Durham collapsed to 54-7, but Stanley, 18 year-old McAlindon, number 10 at bat, reached his first half-century, before then taking 4-29.

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