Kent, Lancashire and Essex among the other round-one winners
Monday 6 June 2016 10:03, UK
Chris Dent's second List A hundred came in a losing cause as reigning Royal London One-Day Cup Champions Gloucestershire were poleaxed by Somerset tailenders Jamie Overton and Tim Groenewald in Taunton.
Dent (100 from 111 balls) stroked 16 fours from his opening berth but with Jack Taylor (43) and Benny Howell (35) the only other players to pass 16, the visitors were bowled out for 260 - Somerset spinner Roelof van der Merwe (3-51) adding three catches and a run out to his three-wicket haul.
Dent then played a key role for Gloucestershire in the field, having Somerset's Johann Myburgh (81) caught in the deep and running out Lewis Gregory as the hosts crumbled from 166-3 to 198-9.
However, Overton (40no) and Groenewald (34no) lashed an unbeaten 65 for the final wicket from just 49 balls as Somerset won an absorbing contest with three balls to spare.
Surrey, defeated by Gloucestershire in the 2015 final, lost their first match, Gareth Batty's men going down to Kent by one wicket in Beckenham.
Surrey could only muster 255-8 from their 50 overs - Kumar Sangakkara top scoring with 58 as James Tredwell took two wickets and shipped just 33 runs from his 10 overs of off-spin.
Kent were coasting at 111-1 in the 22nd over but then lost four wickets for four runs, including Daniel Bell-Drummond (56), before Alex Blake (66no) guided the home side over the line with a six from the penultimate ball following another cluster of dismissals towards the death.
Tom Westley's ton saw Essex Eagles to a three-wicket triumph over Hampshire at The Ageas Bowl, the 27-year-old's 110 helping Ravi Bopara's side chase down the hosts' 310-4 with three deliveries in the bank.
Jesse Ryder added 70 for the Eagles, the New Zealander putting on 143 with Westley for the second wicket, while Adam Wheater (90), Tom Alsop (83) and Liam Dawson (70no) each pocketed half-centuries for Hampshire
In the North Group, meanwhile, Jos Buttler's 91 powered Lancashire Lightning to a 42-run win over Warwickshire at Emirates Old Trafford.
Buttler, who thumped 56 from 29 balls in Lancashire's NatWest T20 Blast loss to Nottinghamshire Outlaws on Saturday, clubbed 10 fours and a six, while Steven Croft (67) and Martin Guptill (50) also starred in the hosts' 296-8.
Ian Bell (73) and Jonathan Trott (66) notched fifties for Warwickshire but the away side could only reach 254-9 - Stephen Parry (3-43) and Tom Smith (3-45) shining with the ball.
Durham racked up the highest total of the day, the North East county smashing 340-6 against Leicestershire Foxes at Grace Road thanks to Mark Stoneman (93), Phil Mustard (88) and Scott Borthwick (63).
Leicester made a good fist of their run chase, with Kevin O'Brien smashing 89 and Mark Cosgrove 63, but they finished on 329-9 to lose by 11 runs, Durham seamer Jamie Harrison taking 4-40.
Worcestershire clouted Derbyshire Falcons spinner Matt Critchley for 101 runs from his 10 overs but still slumped to a seven-wicket loss at New Road.
The hosts found the rest of Derbyshire's attack harder to hit than Critchley, Ben Cotton (4-34) doing the brunt of the damage as Daryl Mitchell's side were bowled out for 295 in 49.4 overs.
Alexei Kervezee (77) and Ross Whiteley (61) walloped fifties for Worcestershire, but those efforts proved in vain as Hamish Rutherford (104), Wayne Madsen (69no), Billy Godleman (61) and Neil Broom (45no) saw Derbyshire seal victory with 11 balls in the bank.
