T20 Blast Finals Day: Hampshire beat Lancashire in double final-ball thriller to win for third time

Aussie Ben McDermott's match-winning 62 in the final followed his 61 at Edgbaston in the quarter-final

Hampshire won the T20 for a record-equalling third time as they kept their heads to beat Lancashire in a remarkable final in Birmingham.

But, now needing only two to win, Lancashire finished on 151-8 to lose for the third time in a T20 final.

Ben McDermott starred with 62 for Hampshire in an Edgbaston thriller.

Hampshire's third win, after victories in 2010 and 2012, and their first at Edgbaston, matched Leicestershire's haul of three T20 trophies.

• First semi-final: Lancashire beat Yorkshire by six wickets
• Second semi-final: Hampshire beat Somerset by 37 runs

New England white-ball paceman Richard Gleeson made a great early breakthrough for Lancashire when he bowled Hampshire skipper James Vince with the ninth ball of the innings - and then semi-final hero Tom Prest quickly followed.

Joe Weatherley and Liam Dawson then both holed out cheaply off Parkinson, who then get the big wicket when he bowled McDermott in his third over - before taking his fourth in his final over to bag Ellis too.

Left-armer Luke Wood, a T20 Blast final winner with Worcestershire in 2018, also bowled very tidily to take 2-26.

Only two sides had successfully defended a total lower than 152 in a T20 final, Hampshire themselves against Yorkshire in Cardiff in 2012, when they had only made 150-6, and Leicestershire a year earlier, winning by 18 runs after only posting 145-6 against Somerset.

Phil Salt got their run-chase off to a flier when he went 4-6 off his first two deliveries, but he then gave a catch off the third.

That brought in Steven Croft, Lancashire's all-time leading T20 run scorer, who played superbly for his 36 until being given out when an edge off Mason Crane was fumbled by McDermott but ended up in the wicketkeeper's pad.

From being well set on 72-1 in the eighth over, Croft's departure caused Lancashire to hit the panic button, Keaton Jennings and Dane Vilas got themselves out with loose shots, big-hitting Tim David flopped again when he missed a straight one from James Fuller.

And, although Luke Wells thought he had turned it with a six and four in successive balls off Wood, Hampshire, superbly skippered by three-times winner and last season's winning men's Hundred skipper Vince, won it as Ellis held his nerve.

Nathan Ellis' death bowling skills completed Hampshire's triumph

More to follow.