RESULT
Semi-Final, Worcester, August 31, 2025, One-Day Cup
(29.2/38 ov, T:273) 141

Worcs won by 131 runs (DLS method)

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Khurram Shahzad fires Worcestershire into Trent Bridge final

Pakistan seamer takes 4 for 36 after Daniel Lategan's 78 lays foundation

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31-Aug-2025 • 9 hrs ago
Khurram Shahzad ran through Somerset's top order, Worcestershire vs Somerset, Metro Bank One-Day Cup semi-final, New Road, August 31, 2025

Khurram Shahzad ran through Somerset's top order  •  ECB/Getty Images

Worcestershire 275 for 9 (Lategan 78, Green 4-52) beat Somerset 141 (Shahzad 4-36) by 131 runs (via DLS)
Worcestershire powered through to the Metro Bank One-Day Cup final with a 131-run (DLS) victory over Somerset at New Road.
Put in, the home side totalled a solid 275 for 9 as Daniel Lategan struck his List A-best 78 against a disciplined Somerset attack with Jack Leach's excellent 10-1-28-2 at its heart. Ben Green took 4 for 52.
The target looked around par on a good pitch but Somerset's top order imploded against Khurram Shahzad (4 for 36). The visitors lurched to 108 for 7 from 23.4 overs before rain arrived with them more than 100 runs behind the DLS score.
After the resumption they further crumbled to 141 all out as Worcestershire emphatically secured a place in the final at Trent Bridge on September 20.
Somerset chose to bowl but were kept waiting for their first breakthrough as openers Lategan and Brett D'Oliveira (45) added 85 in 15 overs. The bowlers gave little away though and, as risks were taken in search of acceleration, wickets began to fall.
D'Oliveira drilled Kasey Aldridge to extra cover. Kashif Ali was caught with the greatest nonchalance by Finley Hill on the midwicket boundary off Green. Jake Libby skied Aldridge to mid off.
Nineteen-year-old Lategan posted a polished maiden List A fifty but fell lbw, reverse-sweeping, to Leach as the spinner built pressure which also saw him bowl Rob Jones through a failed sweep. After Ethan Brookes was lbw, sweeping Tom Lammonby, Worcestershire needed some late order contributions. They got them from Henry Cullen (32) and Matthew Waite (24) before Tom Taylor (22 not out) clubbed three sixes to hoist the total to 275.
Pakistan international Shahzad then began with two wides, one of which went for four, in his first three balls. From the dubious platform of 0.1-0-6-0, however, he built an opening spell of 7-2-36-4. Lammonby and Lewis Goldsworthy were beaten for pace when trying to pull and sent up catches. Archie Vaughan was brilliantly caught by Ben Allison at mid-wicket. Thomas Rew edged to slip.
Worcestershire's other seamers deepened Somerset's plight. Waite had Joshua Thomas well caught by Lategan on the long-leg boundary and Allison dismissed Finley Hill, caught at slip, and Green, caught at mid-off.
Green fell to the last ball before heavy rain arrived with Somerset in dire straits at 108 for 7. They resumed needing another 165 from 14.2 overs and quickly lost Aldridge, caught behind, and Leach, stumped, off Brookes.
Last pair James Rew and Jake Ball needed to find 137 runs from ten overs. They managed five before Rew lifted Brookes to long off to trigger loud and long celebrations from the home fans.

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