• Surrey 127 for seven; Nottinghamshire 129 for four (13.2 overs)
  • Semi finals: Gloucestershire 73 for seven; Surrey 74 for four (9.4 overs)
  • Lancashire 94 for four; Nottinghamshire 95 for five (8.2 overs)

This short, strange season finally finished with three short, strange games, and, at the end of them, a second T20 title for Nottinghamshire. They beat Surrey by six wickets in a final that finished late on a cold, dark October evening.

There were one or two twists in the finish. Nottinghamshire were 19 for three at one point and flagging badly before they were revived by a 63-run partnership between Ben Duckett and that gnarled old pro Peter Trego. But the day belonged to their captain, the Australian all-rounder Dan Christian who turned the semi-final with the bat, the final with the ball, and was there, not out on 21, at the end of it all.

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