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Smeed to the fore in perfect start to Blast
Bath Chronicle
|June 05, 2025
Will Smeed made light work of Essex’s meagre total on Sun- day as 2024 runners-up Somer- set made it two wins from two to begin their Men’s Vitality Blast campaign.
T20 powerhouse — Smeed whacked 81 in 54 balls to canter to an eight-wicket victory, as they chased 148 with 25 balls to spare.
Tom Lammonby also chipped in with 36, in a 96-run opening stand, as Somerset's men avenged the defeat their club-mates suffered in the Women's Vitality Blast earlier in the day.
Matt Critchley and Dean Elgar's half-centuries merely sugar-coated a second successive heavy defeat for Essex - having lost their opener at Hampshire by 106 runs.
Somerset barely broke a sweat in their chase. Smeed set the tone with two boundaries in the first over of the innings, which Lammonby followed up with a loopy six over square leg.
This story is from the June 05, 2025 edition of Bath Chronicle.
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