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Venue : County Ground, Chelmsford
Toss : Essex won the toss and elected to field first
Match Result : Kent won by 15 runs
Man of the Match : Darren Stevens
Kent (20 Overs Maximum)
Joe Denly c Phillips b ten Doeschate 69 (54) 5 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Robert Key (C) b Bopara 21 (16) 3 ‘4s’
Azhar Mahmood b Southee 31 (19) 3 ‘4s’
Darren Stevens not out 41 (25) 3 ‘4s’ 3 ‘6s’
Martin van Jaarsveld not out 12 (6) 2 ‘4s’
Sam Northeast
Alex Blake
Geraint Jones (WK)
Wahab Riaz
James Tredwell
Charl Langeveldt
Extras : 9 (1 b, 2 lb, 6 w)
Total : 183/3 (20.0 Overs)
Fall of Wickets : 1-49 (Key, 6.6 ov), 2-95 (Azhar Mahmood, 12.1 ov), 3-149 (Denly, 17.5 ov)
Essex Bowling
Phillips 3-0-23-0
Masters 3-0-24-0
Napier 4-0-37-0 (1w)
Southee 4-1-31-1
Bopara 2-0-19-1
ten Doeschate 3-0-33-1 (1w)
Styris 1-0-13-0
Essex (Target : 184 from 20 Overs)
Mark Pettini b Azhar Mahmood 7 (8) 1 ‘4s’
Adam Wheater st Jones b Stevens 27 (19) 5 ‘4s’
Owais Shah b Stevens 27 (20) 2 ‘6s’
Ravi Bopara c and b Stevens 11 (12) 1 ‘4s’
Scott Styris c Blake b Azhar Mahmood 40 (27) 2 ‘4s’ 2 ‘6s’
Ryan ten Doeschate b Stevens 3 (7)
James Foster (C&WK) b Wahab Riaz 12 (14)
Graham Napier c Blake b Wahab Riaz 26 (15) 5 ‘4s’
Tim Southee b Azhar Mahmood 0 (1)
Tim Phillips not out 0 (0)
David Masters not out 2 (1)
Extras : 13 (1 b, 1 lb, 8 nb, 3 w)
Total : 168/9 (20.0 Overs)
Fall of Wickets : 1-9 (Pettini, 1.5 ov), 2-49 (Wheater, 6.2 ov), 3-68 (Shah, 8.5 ov), 4-77 (Bopara, 10.3 ov), 5-87 (ten Doeschate, 12.1 ov), 6-120 (Foster, 16.1 ov), 7-156 (Napier, 18.6 ov), 8-166 (Styris, 19.4 ov), 9-166 (Southee, 19.5 ov)
Kent Bowling
Langeveldt 4-0-40-0 (2nb)
Azhar Mahmood 4-0-36-3 (1w)
Wahab Riaz 4-0-37-2 (1w 2nb)
Stevens 4-0-21-4 (1w)
Tredwell 4-0-32-0