Somerset stun Surrey again to win first T20 semi

Vitality Blast Finals Day, Edgbaston - First semi-final

Surrey 153-9: Sibley 48; Gregory 3-15, Davey 3-34

Somerset 159-4: Dickson 78, Rew 62*; Worrall 2-15

Somerset win by six wickets

Scorecard

Somerset produced one of the great T20 Finals Day comebacks as they recovered from 7-3 to beat Surrey in comfort by six wickets and reach their third final in four years.

Just two days after Somerset beat Surrey in dramatic style in the County Championship, it looked like the Brown Caps might get their revenge.

Defending a total of 153-9, Surrey quickly took the wickets of Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Tom Abell and Will Smeed in the space of just 13 balls.

But James Rew and Sean Dickson both hit half-centuries as they posted a highest-ever Finals Day partnership of 144 for the fourth wicket to see their side to a record seventh final with eight balls to spare.

The Cider Boys have only won two of their previous six finals - in 2005 against Lancashire at The Oval, and then again at Edgbaston 14 months ago, when they also beat Surrey en route to overcoming Essex.

They will become the first county to defend the T20 title if they can now also go on to beat the winners of the second semi-final between Sussex and Gloucestershire.

After being put into bat, Dan Lawrence made a blistering start for the south London side, hitting three fours as he raced to 19 off 10 balls - but then he went for one big shot too many off his 11th and hoisted a skier to Abell off Josh Davey.

Two more of Surrey's England contingent, Ollie Pope and Dom Sibley, who hit the first six of the match, then added 43 in four and a half overs before two wickets went down in as many balls.

Gregory bowled both stand-in England Test captain Pope and England Test keeper Jamie Smith - and was then involved again when he ran out Rory Burns.

Gregory took his third wicket when Sibley lofted a catch to the deep mid-wicket boundary on 48, before Jake Ball got in on the act when he bowled Tom Curran.

But it was left to Laurie Evans - the only non-England international in Surrey's top eight - to bludgeon a few late blows, including the only other six of the innings, to see his side past the 150 mark.

Somerset got off to a nightmare start in reply when they lost Kohler-Cadmore first ball to Dan Worrall.

It then got worse in the next over when Curran got rid of Abell before Worrall made it 7-3 four balls later, when he had opener Smeed caught behind.

But 20-year-old Rew, only playing because of the cruel midweek ankle injury to quarter-final match-winner Tom Banton, was having none of that - as he came together with Dickson to forge a fabulous partnership.

Dickson hit three sixes and eight fours in his 78 before holing out just before the end, while Rew stayed to see it across the line on 62 not out as Gregory finished it all off with a six over third man.