LONDON, July 28 (TNS): New Zealand’s Martin Guptill struck 102 from just 38 balls as Worcestershire thrashed Northamptonshire by nine wickets in English county cricket’s Twenty20 Blast on Friday.<\/p>\n
Set a targe of 188, visitors Worcestershire won with nearly seven overs to spare, with Joe Clarke making an unbeaten 61 off 33 balls.<\/p>\n
Clarke and Guptill put on 162 in 10 overs.<\/p>\n
It did not take long for the experienced Guptill, who hit 12 fours and seven sixes, to get into his stride.<\/p>\n
He got going in a Richard Gleeson over that cost 22 runs, a flick over midwicket for six, two hits down the ground for four and a flick wide of short-fine leg.<\/p>\n
South Africa’s Rory Kleinveldt replaced Gleeson and he too gave up an over costing 22 as Guptill went to fifty in 20 balls.<\/p>\n
Guptill swept left-arm spinner Graeme White to deep-backward square leg, only for Seekkuge Prasanna to step over the boundary before a second slog-sweep cleared deep midwicket.<\/p>\n
Later, he drove Prasanna over long-on for six and wide of long-off for four as Guptill went to 90 before Kyle Coetzer was straight driven for four and flicked over midwicket for six to bring up the batsman’s century.<\/p>\n
But trying to lift Gleeson over mid-on, he was well caught by Josh Cobb but by then the game was almost won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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