Overview
- Finals Day is Saturday, September 13 at Edgbaston with Lancashire vs Somerset first (11am), Hampshire vs Northamptonshire second (2.30pm) and the final in the evening, live on Sky Sports Cricket from 10.30am.
- Bookmakers make Somerset and Hampshire marginal favourites, with odds led by Somerset at 9-4 and Hampshire at 5-2, and Hampshire pursuing a record fourth Blast title.
- Lancashire are without Phil Salt, Luke Wood and Jos Buttler due to England duty and Ashton Turner has returned home, while Somerset lose leading wicket-taker Riley Meredith; Hampshire can call on in-form seamer Sonny Baker.
- Recent quarter-finals highlighted match-winners as Ravi Bopara smashed 105 not out for Northamptonshire, Liam Livingstone hit an unbeaten 85 for Lancashire and Hampshire piled up 221 with three half-centuries.
- Somerset enter on a sustained run of consistency with five straight Finals Days and two narrow group-stage wins over Hampshire that suggest a tight rematch if they meet again.