By Jon Culley

Birmingham Bears booked themselves a home quarter-final in the Vitality Blast with a two-wicket victory over Notts Outlaws at a damp Trent Bridge despite losing four wickets to Pakistan ace Shaheen Shah Afridi in the first over of their innings as they chased 169 to win.
The Bears, already sure of a place in the knockout stages after five straight wins before this, found themselves reeling at 7-4 as the left-armer gave away five wides with his first ball but then took wickets with his first, second, fifth and sixth legal deliveries.
But – after the Outlaws lost their Eng...