Derbyshire Falcons took East Midlands bragging rights after efficiently chasing down Leicestershire Foxes’ goal of 197 within the Vitality T20 Blast at Edgbaston.
The win lifted Falcons off the underside of North Group though they nonetheless want a continuation of their latest enchancment to achieve the knockout levels after dropping 5 of their seven video games up to now.
Within the first of two Midlands derbies at Warwickshire’s dwelling floor on Saturday, Foxes opener Sol Budinger’s bludgeoned 49 off simply 24 deliveries to assist set an imposing goal for the underside facet.
When Budinger was finally dismissed by veteran spin bowler Samit Patel (2-33), the Foxes had quickly moved to 64-2 at first of the eighth over.
Rehan Ahmed and Shan Masood had been dismissed in fast succession by Falcons seamer Pat Brown, who completed with 3-51, however Logan van Beek (26 not out) and Ben Cox (28 not out) placed on 55 off the ultimate 5 overs at hand Derbyshire a tricky chase.
In reply, Derbyshire opener Aneurin Donald continued the place he left off following Friday’s knock of 73 not out towards Nottinghamshire with a terrific 60 to assist them race to 80-0 after six overs.
That included the quickest half-century within the membership’s historical past from simply 18 balls – beating his personal earlier report set in final yr’s competitors.
Leicestershire got a glimmer of hope when seamer Tom Scriven eliminated each openers in his first over.
And when Wayne Madsen discovered Matt Salisbury at deep positive leg for Scriven’s third wicket, Derbyshire had been nonetheless 43 runs shy of their goal with 32 balls remaining.
However a terrific 52 not out off simply 32 balls from 40-year-old Patel, accompanied ably by Ross Whiteley (13 not out), helped the Falcons dwelling comfortably with 10 balls to spare to seal back-to-back victories in consecutive days.
