HAMPSHIRE are away to Derbyshire in the Natwest T20 Blast quarter-finals on Tuesday after crashing to their heaviest T20 defeat at home to Somerset last night.

Peter Trego (84no) and James Hildreth (39no) shared an unbroken 105 from the last 64 balls of the Somerset innings as Hampshire conceded their biggest Ageas Bowl total for four years, before being bowled out for their second-lowest T20 total anywhere.

Hampshire’s 98-run defeat is comfortably their heaviest by a runs margin in the format and helped ensure Somerset joined them in the last eight on run rate.

Tom Alsop’s 29-ball 36 made him Hampshire's only specialist batsman to reach double figures as they lost their last seven wickets for 51 runs.

England’s Mason Crane was badly missed as Hampshire conceded their biggest total on home turf since their 2013 quarter-final against Lancashire.

Johann Myburgh’s belligerent 58 from 29 balls (five fours, three sixes) set the tone after the early dismissals of Steven Davies and Jim Allenby as Somerset made a healthy 54-2 from the powerplay.

After hitting Abbott for his third maximum, an audacious loft over wide long-off, Myburgh became a big first scalp for surprise debutant Jacob Lintott.

It seemed as though the script might have been written for the 24 year-old against his home county, when his left-arm chinamen accounted for Myburgh with his second ball.

Myburgh cut the Taunton-born cricket coach, a former Somerset Under-13 who has impressed for Hampshire’s 2nd XI of late, to George Bailey in the covers.

But there was no stopping Trego, who twice hit ten in two balls against Chris Wood, courtesy of straight sixes at the end of the 14th and 19th overs, on his way to an unbeaten 84 (50 balls, nine fours, two sixes).

His fourth-wicket partnership with Hildreth, who played the anchor role with a 27-ball 39 that included only two boundaries, was one short of Somerset’s record T20 fourth-wicket stand.

Hampshire have never chased down more than 182 to win a T20 match at The Ageas Bowl and never looked like doing so when they lost Calvin Dickinson, James Vince and George Bailey in the first two overs of their reply.

Hampshire closed the powerplay on 40-4 before Alsop and Sean Ervine skied to long-on in successive overs.

Then Roelof van der Merwe’s slow left-arm accounted for Gareth Berg and Kyle Abbott in the space of three balls.

Afridi top edged a pull before Lintott’s dismissal  confirmed the record defeat and the trip to Derbyshire, who clinched second place in the north group thanks to a match-winning 4-17 from Imran Tahir against Worcestershire.

SOMERSET 
SM Davies †c †Dickinson b Dawson 0 (4)
J Allenby (c) c Berg b Wood 7 (10)
JG Myburgh c Bailey b Lintott 58 (29)
PD Trego not out 84 (50)
JC Hildreth not out 39 (27)
Extras 1 (lb 1)
TOTAL 189/3 (20 overs)
     Did not bat: L Gregory, TD Groenewald, RE van der Merwe, C Overton, MTC Waller, MA Leask
     BOWLING: LA Dawson 4-0-40-1, GK Berg 2-0-22-0, CP Wood 3-0-37-1, KJ Abbott 4-0-42-0, Shahid Afridi 4-0-23-0, JB Lintott    3-0-24-1.    
      Fall of wickets:1-0 (SM Davies, 0.4 ov), 2-26 (J Allenby, 3.6 ov), 3-84 (JG Myburgh, 9.2 ov)

HAMPSHIRE innings
CM Dickinson † b Waller 3 (3)
JM Vince (c) c Myburgh b Overton 2 (3)
TP Alsop c van der Merwe b Waller 36 (29)
GJ Bailey c Groenewald b Overton 4 (5)
LA Dawson b Groenewald 4 (7)
SM Ervine c Hildreth b Gregory 7 (8)
GK Berg st †Davies b van der Merwe 4 (6)
Shahid Afridi c & b van der Merwe 5 (7)
KJ Abbott lbw b van der Merwe 0 (2)
CP Wood not out 13 (23)
JB Lintott c †Davies b Overton 8 (18)
Extras 5 (lb 3, w 2)
TOTAL 91 all out (18.3 overs)
     BOWLING: MTC Waller 4-0-15-2, C Overton 3.3-    0-17-3, RE van der Merwe    4-0-13-3, L Gregory 3-0-16-1, TD Groenewald 3-0-20-1, J Allenby 1-0-7-0    
     Fall of wickets:1-4 (CM Dickinson, 0.4 ov), 2-6 (JM Vince, 1.1 ov), 3-10 (GJ Bailey, 1.6 ov), 4-40 (LA Dawson, 5.6 ov), 5-58 (TP Alsop, 8.4 ov), 6-61 (SM Ervine, 9.3 ov), 7-64 (GK Berg, 10.2 ov), 8-64 (KJ Abbott, 10.4 ov), 9-75 (Shahid Afridi, 12.4 ov), 10-91 (JB Lintott, 18.3 ov)

Toss: Somerset
Somerset won by 98 runs