By Bruce Talbot

July 19, County Ground, Hove
Middlesex 159-9 Sussex Sharks 161-1
Sussex Sharks won by 9 wickets
Toss: Middlesex, who elected to bat
SUSSEX SHARKS secured a home quarter-final against Lancashire on 4 September in the Blast after thrashing Middlesex by nine wickets in front of a sell-out crowd at Hove. They leapfrogged Somerset back into second place after securing a ninth win in the South Group.
The pitch at the 1st Central County Ground was being used for the third time but Middlesex’s 159 for 9 never looked like being enough and conditions were put into ...