Somerset vs Bears - Saturday 6 September 2025 - Vitality Blast Quarter Final

Vitality Blast

Sat 6 September, 18:30

Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton

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Report: Somerset vs Bears, Vitality Blast Quarter Final

Sean Dickson struck 71 off 26 balls to see Somerset through to Vitality Blast Finals Day with a nerve-tingling four-wicket victory over the Bears at the Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton.

The visitors posted 190 for six after winning the toss, Alex Davies top-scoring with 71 off just 39 balls, with 13 fours. Rob Yates provided a lightning start with 25 off ten deliveries, but Ben Green’s two for 30 enabled Somerset to peg their opponents back.

Even so, it took a stupendous knock from Dickson, who blasted 5 fours and 6 sixes, to see the home side to victory with just one ball to spare. Tom Abell made 51, while Oliver Hannon-Dalby claimed three for 24.

The Bears looked set for a mammoth total when scoring 82 off the six-over power play. Yates hit every ball of Riley Meredith’s first over, the second of the match, for four, while Davies took five boundaries off the fifth over, sent down by Craig Overton.

Overton had broken the partnership with the score on 39, having Yates caught at fine leg. Davies then dominated a half-century stand with Dan Mousley, who fell for 12, bowled by Somerset captain Lewis Gregory.

At the halfway stage of their innings, Bears had 119 on the board, Davies having reached a 24-ball half-century after being dropped in the deep on 44 by Will Smeed off Jake Ball. But when he fell in the 12th over, bowled by Green attempting a ramp shot, which had served him well, it signalled a turning point.

Green and Gregory bowled economically, along with left-arm spinner Lewis Goldsworthy, as three more wickets fell and the innings ended without a single six having been hit. Kai Smith finished unbeaten on 28, but after the blistering start, the Bears final total looked no more than par on a typically bat-friendly Taunton pitch.

The first maximum of the game was struck by Tom Kohler-Cadmore off George Garton over mid-wicket in the third over of Somerset’s reply. The next over, bowled by Richard Gleeson, saw the dangerous Will Smeed caught off a top-edged pull with the score on 28.

The power play ended with Somerset 49 for one. That became 64 for two when Kohler-Cadmore, on 32, drove a straightforward catch to long-on off Oliver Hannon-Dalby and at the halfway stage of their innings, the hosts were 73 for two, needing more than 11 an over.

James Rew was dropped at short fine leg off Garton, but departed for 11, caught off the very next ball, before Abell brought the hundred up in the 13th over with a six over mid-wicket off Ed Barnard. Dickson followed up by clearing the ropes off Briggs and Garton to raise Somerset hopes.

Abell went to fifty off 39 balls, with 5 fours and six, but perished soon afterwards, caught at long-off skying a ball from Briggs. Dickson replied with a six in the same over before another skyer accounted for Gregory off Hannon-Dalby, who then sent back Green in what seemed a decisive 18th over.

Despite Dickson’s 19-ball fifty, Somerset required 19 off the final over, bowled by Barnard. But he was far from finished, clearing the ropes twice and smashing a straight four to cap a memorable innings and win the game for his side.

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Preview: Somerset vs Bears, Vitality Blast quarter-final

The Bears head to Taunton looking to qualify for Finals Day for the first time since 2017.

They have won eight games in the group stage, including a resounding 127-run victory over Derbyshire, which secured their qualification to the knockout stages.

The Bears’ Blast campaign has seen some key highlights from players such as Tom Latham and Alex Davies, who shared the highest partnership (187) in the 2025 Vitality Blast and the joint-fifth highest in the history of the competition, with Latham scoring the second T20 century of his career off 49 balls.

They went on to make light work of Derbyshire’s batting lineup, skittling them for 106, with Jake Lintott (3/27) the pick of the bowlers.

The Bears, who have previously topped the North Group stages for three years in a row, have battled to qualify for the quarter-finals, with several crunch matches where players needed to stand up in high-pressure moments.

None has stood up more than Hassan Ali, who was sensational in the group stage. The fourth-highest wicket-taker in the tournament, Ali claimed 25 wickets during his stint at an average of 15 and an absurd strike rate of 10.40.

He also took career-best figures of 6/23, including a memorable hat-trick against Derbyshire in another mammoth victory.

Another player who has continued his consistent run of form in the competition is Sam Hain.

His haul of 439 runs puts him inside the top 10 run-scorers, and he is the leading run-scorer for the Bears for the third year in a row, and for the seventh time in his career.

The Bears’ last outing at Somerset in a T20 was in 2020 in the Central Group. Hain hit a typically dynamic 55* off 31 balls in a rain-affected game to help lift the Bears to 107/4 off 12 overs.

Tim Bresnan then removed Pakistan international Babar Azam in the first over to put Somerset behind the game.

Which is where they remained with Henry Brookes closing out the final over to give the Bears victory by 4 runs on DLS.

The Bears will be looking to replicate this victory on Saturday and take one step closer to Finals Day and repeat their triumph at Edgbaston from 2014.

Squad
Alex Davies (C)
Ed Barnard
Danny Briggs
George Garton
Richard Gleeson
Sam Hain
Olly Hannon-Dalby
Jake Lintott
Zen Malik
Craig Miles
Dan Mousley
Hamza Shaikh
Kai Smith
Rob Yates

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Report: Somerset vs Bears, Vitality Blast Quarter Final

Sean Dickson struck 71 off 26 balls to see Somerset through to Vitality Blast Finals Day with a nerve-tingling four-wicket victory over the Bears at the Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton.

Preview: Somerset vs Bears, Vitality Blast quarter-final

The Bears head to Taunton looking to qualify for Finals Day for the first time since 2017.

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