Tons of fun! Another century for in-form Lynn

Big Bash free agent Chris Lynn has continued his incredible run of form, smashing his second century of the England's T20 Blast competition. 

The Queenslander top-scored for Northamptonshire as the Steelbacks piled on 3-220 in their 73-run win over Worcestershire at the County Ground in Northampton. 

Lynn hammered eight fours and nine sixes to finish unbeaten on 113 from only 57 balls.

 

On 97, Lynn picked up a little niggle and was allowed to continue his innings with a runner.

"It (the runner) kind of helped us in way," teammate Josh Cobb said after the match. 

"He thought, 'I can't run, I need to try and hit sixes', and he managed to keep hitting sixes.

"He was outstanding tonight and it's great to see him firing."

His scores for the Steelbacks this season now read 16, 83, 106no, 61, 0 and 113no and his 379 runs (at a strike rate of 166.22) has him nearly 100 runs ahead of the next best, Rilee Rossouw (285).

Not far behind in third spot on the run-scorers list is Australian Tim David, who has continued his purple patch from the Indian Premier League to smash 264 runs in seven innings.

In May the Heat announced they would not be renewing former captain Lynn's contract after the right hander scored only 215 runs at a strike rate of 125 in KFC BBL|11.

Elsewhere, Hayden Kerr played another big hand in Derbyshire's third win of the season,in the Falcons' comfortable win over Leicestershire.

Opening the bowling, Kerr took 2-25 as the Foxes were restricted to 6-181, which Derbyshire chased down with ease.

After signing wit the Falcons on the eve of the season, allrounder Kerr now has eight wickets for the campaign, the second best at the county behind George Scrimshaw's 11.

Middlesex's Australians Jason Behrendorff and Chris Green ran into a red-hot Surrey at Lord's.

The undefeated Surrey batted first and piled on 7-208, with former Perth Scorchers batter Jason Roy top-scoring with 81.

Behrendorff took 2-36 from his four overs, while off-spinner Green took 1-43.

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In reply, Green got going with the bat, hitting 46 not out off only 29 balls, but he was left with too much to do, Middlesex eventually falling 20 runs short.

Ben McDermott only managed two runs off four balls in Hampshire's win over Essex.

And Peter Siddle had a tough time in Somerset's win over Gloucestershire.

Siddle took 0-23 from his allotted two overs, as the match had been reduced to a 10-over a side game.

Somerset won a thriller with No.8 Roelof van der Merwe's 15-ball 48 inspiring to an unlikely victory. 

Australians in 2022 English T20 Blast

Birmingham: Nathan McAndrew

Derbyshire: Hayden Kerr

Durham: Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye

Essex: Daniel Sams

Glamorgan: Marnus Labuschagne, Michael Neser

Gloucestershire: Marcus Harris

Hampshire: Nathan Ellis, Ben McDermott

Lancashire: Tim David

Middlesex: Jason Behrendorff, Chris Green

Northamptonshire: Matthew Kelly, Chris Lynn

Nottinghamshire: Dan Christian, James Pattinson

Somerset: Peter Siddle

Sussex: Josh Philippe