WHEN YOU THINK YOU’VE SEEN IT ALL…
Adam Lyth and Yorkshire come up with an utterly electrifying, record-crushing performance. The White Rose needed a big win over Northants and boy, did they get that. Opener Lyth defied belief with a 73-ball 161 - that’s a strike rate of more than 220 and a new English domestic T20 record to boot. Yorkshire finished with a whopping 260/4! The joint third-highest T20 score EVER. Wow.
DANGEROUS DENLY
Kent opener Joe Denly showed that he’s a class apart when it comes to white-ball hitting. The Spitfires star posted Kent’s highest-ever T20 score - breaking his own record from earlier in the comp (116* off 63) - when he bashed 127 off just 66 balls in a world-record opening stand of 207 with DBD. Scenes.
*THAT* JACK LEANING CATCH
Best catch you’ve ever seen? Yep, pretty sure it is. There really are no words for this. Just watch.
Simply incredible! 🙌@JackLeaning1 pulls off one of the greatest catches you will see #Blast17 pic.twitter.com/eOItrCkKEp
— NatWest T20 Blast (@NatWestT20Blast) August 11, 2017
TEKKERS ALERT
Derbyshire Falcons soared into the quarter-finals for only the second time thanks to all-round team effort and some quick-thinking like this from Hardus Viljoen. Absolute feet!
Absolute feet!
— NatWest T20 Blast (@NatWestT20Blast) August 16, 2017
Viljoen's got a decent touch for a big fella... 😂 pic.twitter.com/vhDToSCIap
FINCH-HITTER
How important will Aaron Finch be to Surrey’s hopes of Blast glory? The Aussie power-hitter showed what he could do with a brutal 64-ball unbeaten 114 against Sussex at the Oval.
When @AaronFinch5 is in this type of form, there's no stopping him
— NatWest T20 Blast (@NatWestT20Blast) August 14, 2017
Incredible hitting to score his 3rd T20 💯 #Blast17 pic.twitter.com/lVNatPmzCP
HOWZAT!
It’s been a summer to remember for the batsmen, but the #Blast17 bowlers have put in some serious performances too. Bresilad’s heroics in the Roses match will live long in the memory - 6 for 19 against your biggest rivals, anyone? While Foxes star Clint McKay, Middlesex youngster Tom Helm and Kent’s Kiwi paceman Adam Milne each took amazing figures of 5/11.
LIVINGSTONE’S NO-LOOK SCOOP
You can always expect fireworks when Lancashire Lightning’s Liam Livingstone is in town. If he’s not blowing kisses to the Yorkshire faithful, he’s hitting the most ridiculous no-look scoop shots you’ve ever seen! Unbelievable.
This no-look scoop from @liaml4893 is outrageous 😱#Blast17 pic.twitter.com/IPC4WnpyYq
— NatWest T20 Blast (@NatWestT20Blast) July 14, 2017
WHAT A GRAB!
This guy broke the internet when he not only took a one-handed catch in the crowd, but did it without spilling a drop of his pint! Crowd catch hero, we salute you. Cheers! 🍻
Wet ball ✅
— NatWest T20 Blast (@NatWestT20Blast) July 15, 2017
One-handed ✅
But most importantly, the 🍺 is still in tact!
Hats off to you, sir… pic.twitter.com/wKkM4sBDB4
LAST BUT NOT LEAST…
SIX sixes in ONE over. Yes, SIX maximums in just ONE over. It never happens, right?! Well, hardly ever, but Ross Whiteley did just that for Worcs Rapids against Yorkshire at Headingley. Whiteley’s only the fifth man in history to do it in a first-class match, joining Sir Garfield Sobers, Ravi Shastri, Herschelle Gibbs and Yuvraj Singh. Quite a roll call.