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One Day Cup: Kent, Notts, Bears, Hants, Worcs, Essex and Glam win

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image caption, Matt Parkinson’s four wickets sealed a tense win for Kent at Blackpool

Kent leg-spinner Matt Parkinson outwitted his former Lancashire team-mates to claim a thrilling five-run One-Day Cup victory in Blackpool.

Parkinson, who left the Red Rose County last season, finished with 4-30 to leave Lancashire skipper Keaton Jennings on 107 not out as the home side fell just short in the final over.

Rocky Flintoff, the 16-year-old son of former England captain Andrew, made his first-team debut and scored 12 before becoming the first of four Parkinson’s victims.

There were also wins in Group A for Worcestershire and Hampshire, who overcame Durham and Somerset respectively to join both Derbyshire at the top of the table with two wins from two.

Glamorgan beat Surrey for their second successive tournament win, while Nottinghamshire beat Yorkshire and Essex triumphed in Gloucestershire.

Group A – Jennings’ heroic strike in vain for Lancs

Captain Jennings, who has already hit two centuries at Blackpool in the County Championship this season, looked certain to guide Lancashire home with another ton until Parkinson stepped in with two late wickets.

Chris Green took 3-38 as Kent they were bowled out for 209, with left-arm seamer Ollie Sutton picking up a wicket on debut before being forced off with a side strain just three balls into his spell.

Beyers Swanepoel (3-26) and Charlie Stobo (2-30) hit back with the ball for Kent before Parkinson removed Will Williams and Sutton, who was clearly suffering from the crease, to end the game in four deliveries Reserve.

Spinner Tom Hinley claimed a five-wicket haul in just his second game for Worcestershire, who won Durham with 93 points at New Road to make it two wins from two.

Skipper Jake Libby led the reply after the Pears slipped to 16-3, hitting 89 to guide the home side to 260 all out, with on-loan debutant Fateh Singh contributing a 46-ball 60.

Tom Taylor’s incredible opener left Durham reeling at 1-3 in the reply and although 19-year-old Ben McKinney’s career-best 80 kept the visitors in contention, Hinley rattled to dismiss them for 167 and finished with 5-56. .

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image caption, Toby Albert’s score of 96 was the highest white ball score for Hampshire

HampshireToby’s Toby Albert narrowly missed out on a maiden white-ball century, but an unbeaten 96 off 87 balls was enough to steer his side to their second straight victory, overtaking Somerset by five wickets at Southampton.

The home side struggled to bowl out their opponents for 242 after an opening partnership of 85 between Josh Thomas (41) and Andy Umeed – who followed up his hundred against Kent with an innings of 84.

Despite losing two early wickets in the reply, Hampshire got back on track thanks to Fletcha Middleton’s 50, before Albert and Felix Organ (46 not out) shared an unbroken partnership of exactly 100 to get victory with 3.5 overs to spare.

Group B – The last pair of bears go through Sussex

Last man Olly Hannon-Dalby made it two runs past Archie Lenham to claim a stunning victory for Warwickshire as they passed by Sussex in a low-scoring game at Hove.

The home side started well with an opening stand of 71 between Tom Clark and Tom Haines but then collapsed to 173 all out in 35.1 overs with Bears seamer Michael Booth taking 3-16.

Warwickshire struggled early in their chase, slipping to 76-5 before Rhodes and Kai Smith (44) added 73 – only for three wickets to fall in eight balls to reignite Sussex hopes, but Jake Lintott and Hannon-Dalby and – they held their nerve.

Glamorgan needed just 15.5 overs to chase down a modest target of 122 against Surrey at the Oval, with Colin Ingram smashing an unbeaten 39 off 26 balls to seal a seven-wicket win for the visitors.

Only three Surrey players managed to reach double figures as they were bowled out for just 121 in 34 overs, with Ben Foakes top-scoring with 44.

Glamorgan spinner Ben Kellaway played both right-handed and left-handed – picking up a wicket each way – to finish with figures of 2-16, while Jamie McIlroy, Dan Douthwaite and Andy Gorvin also claimed two wickets each.

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image caption, Glamorgan’s Ben Kellaway played both right-handed and left-handed in his side’s crushing win over Surrey.

Brett Hutton broke YorkshireTop order to finish with figures of 6-38 and set an 83-run stand for Nottinghamshire at Nettleworth.

The result was harsh for Yorkshire all-rounder Ben Coad, whose career-best 4-14 reduced the home side to 60-5 before Lyndon James’ 76 and Liam Patterson-White’s unbeaten 38 at one run of the ball raised to 209 all out.

That proved more than enough as Yorkshire-born Hutton produced his second-best total in limited-overs cricket as the visitors were dismissed for 126, although Coad (31) led the defiant resistance from the queue.

Teenage all-rounder Luc Benkenstein top-scored with 67 off 63 balls to help ensure Essexthe first victory of the campaign triumphed with 63 points Gloucestershire at Bristol.

Benkenstein was supported by Robin Das (52) in the visitors’ total of 262-8, with seamer Dom Goodman taking 4-43 for Gloucestershire, who collapsed to 78-8 in reply after three early wickets for Shane Snater.

Ajeet Singh Dale supported Essex with a superb career-best 63 off 34 balls, including five sixes and five fours.

He shared an 85-run partnership for the last wicket with Tom Smith before he was eventually dismissed to end Gloucestershire’s innings on 199.

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