Northants Steelbacks Leicestershire Sussex T20 quarter-final - Northants Steelbacks, Sussex and Leicestershire made sure about the last three spots for the T20 Blast quarter-finals after the last round of gathering games.

The Steelbacks beat Birmingham Bears in spite of 119 off 64 balls by Adam Hose, and Sussex saw off 2019 victors Essex.

Leicestershire pushed out the Bears on net pursue rate crushing Lancashire Lightning at Old Trafford.

Somewhere else, Shaheen Afridi took 6-19, remembering four wickets for four balls to seal Hampshire's success over Middlesex.

There were likewise triumphs for Notts Outlaws, Gloucestershire, Glamorgan, Yorkshire and Surrey.

Northants Steelbacks Leicestershire Sussex T20 quarter-final

Gloucestershire, Notts, Lancashire, Surrey and Kent had just guaranteed they would be in the last eight preceding Sunday's matches, which finished a shortened province season for eight different groups - Derbyshire, Durham, Glamorgan, Hampshire, Middlesex, Warwickshire/Bears, Worcestershire and Yorkshire.

The quarter-finals will all be played on 1 October, with Notts at home to Leicestershire, Surrey playing Kent, Gloucestershire taking on Northants and Sussex confronting Lancashire.

Finals Day will follow two days after the fact, a date picked in the expectation the administration will permit a few onlookers to be available at Edgbaston.

- Bears home and Hosed - not exactly

The Central Group round of the day saw Birmingham Bears decreased to 20-4 after 3.3 overs before Hose and Dan Mousley shared a remain of 171 to see them to 191-5.

Hose was run out off the last chunk of the innings as Mousley completed on 58 not out, yet their absolute was insufficient, with Tom Taylor (50 not out off 27 balls) and Graeme White (37 not out off 12) putting on 53 to see Northants home by three wickets on 193-7 with seven balls to go.

Lewis Gregory's 50 drove Bob Willis Trophy finalists Somerset to 161-7 at Bristol however their possibility of going further in the opposition were run as Ian Cockbain's 89 and a last wad of the-coordinate limit by Tom Smith saw bunch champs Gloucestershire to 163-8, and a two-wicket win.

Cockbain hit three sixes and nine fours and outperformed Michael Klinger as the club's driving T20 run-scorer throughout his innings.

At New Road, Hamish Rutherford made precisely 100 off 62 balls in a score of 190-3 by Worcestershire Rapids, however Glamorgan arrived at 196-4 with two balls extra to win by six wickets.

- Foxes leave it late

Leicestershire and Durham both got an opportunity of experiencing from North Group toward the beginning of play, yet the last went somewhere around 18 runs at Trent Bridge as they were bowled out for 132 in light of 150-6 by Notts Outlaws.

Yorkshire Vikings beat Derbyshire Falcons by six wickets in a sensational completion at Emerald Headingley as Harry Brook hit the last bundle of the game for four.

He made an unbeaten 50 and put on 91 with England's Joe Root, whose 60 not out was his fourth 50 years in five T20 appearances this season, as they arrived at 171-4, answering to Derbyshire's 167-6.

The last round of the day to complete was at Old Trafford, where Leicestershire Foxes posted 154-5 subsequent to being given a forceful beginning by Tom Welch (43), who hit two sixes in Saqib Mahmood's opening over.

Arron Lilley top-scored with 49 yet Lancashire were very much positioned at 112-1 preceding four wickets went down for two runs in about seven conveyances, three of them in one over from Colin Ackermann.

Among his casualties was opener Alex Davies, for 52, and the home side missed the mark on 132-5 as the Foxes - the main three-time T20 champions - pressed into the quarter-finals.

Their net run pace of - 0.18 was better than - 0.63 by Birmingham Bears in Central Group.

"I'm inconceivably pleased," lead trainer Paul Nixon disclosed to BBC Radio Leicester. "For us it's tied in with standing up and truly accepting and realizing we can win against huge groups."

- Roy in dashing mode

Kent's Daniel Bell-Drummond passed 400 T20 runs this late spring in his 37 against Surrey in South Group, however it was England's Sam Billings who drove them to a score of 159-8 with his 50 off 33 balls.

Gathering champs Surrey made it seven triumphs out of 10, however, as Jason Roy (72 off 52 balls) and Laurie Evans (73 off 45) included 135 out of 14 overs as they arrived at 161-4 in the nineteenth over.

Sussex moved above Kent into runner up, and made sure about a home quarter-last as they beat Essex, who were 0-2 after the initial four bundles of the game, by four wickets.

Paul Walter's 76 off 45 balls helped Essex to 136-9, yet just two other batsmen arrived at twofold figures and the Sharks floated to 137-6, on account of Phil Salt's quickfire 42 and 40 from Scotland's Calum MacLeod.

Hampshire finished strong as their score of 141-9 demonstrated enough for a 20-run prevail upon Middlesex, just their second achievement in 10 matches.

Stevie Eskinazi's 16 was sufficient to take him past 400 T20 runs, however Pakistan's Shaheen Afridi created figures of 6-19 - remembering taking the last four wickets for progressive balls - as Middlesex were all out for 121.

Just three bowlers - Ackermann (7-18), Arul Suppiah (6-5) and Tim Southee (6-16) have better figures in an English T20 game, and Tim Bresnan likewise took 6-19 for Yorkshire against Lancashire in 2017.

Northants Steelbacks Leicestershire Sussex T20 quarter-final