DUR vs HAM Preview | Durham eye semi-final spot, set to face Hampshire in second quarter-final

ByUmesh Sharma,SportsCafe Editor

Today at 1:12 AM

Durham and Hampshire are set to take on each other in the second quarter-final of the ongoing T20 Blast 2025. Both teams will eye a spot in the tournament’s semi-finals with a win in this game, coming off different journeys in their respective last couple of games in the ongoing edition.

Durham has been in a mixed run of form in their last five games in the tournament’s ongoing edition. They are coming off a massive nine-wicket win against Northamptonshire in the last game, following an abandoned game against Leicestershire. Earlier, they faced two consecutive defeats against Nottinghamshire and Lancashire, following a narrow eight-run win against Birmingham Bears. Speaking of their overall campaign in the T20 Blast 2025, they finished second in the North Group points table, with eight wins and five defeats, including a no-result game in the 14 matches they played. They will aim to win this game and seal a spot in the semi-final round.

On the other hand, Hampshire ended their league stage campaign, getting placed at the third spot in the South Group points table. They have enjoyed a brilliant run of form in their last five games, with only two defeats and three consecutive wins. In their previous game against Essex, they lost by four wickets. Before that, they registered three successive wins against Middlesex, Glamorgan, and Sussex after losing by four wickets against Somerset. They will look forward to continuing their form to win this game and enter the semi-finals of the ongoing T20 Blast 2025.

Form Guide

DUR: W L L A W

Durham have been through a mixed kind of form, with two wins, two defeats and an ‘abandoned’ game in their last five games. Having a win in the previous game, they will have a moral advantage in this game.

HAM: L W W W L

Hampshire have enjoyed a better form compared to Durham in their last five games. They have won three games, including two defeats in their last five games.

DUR vs HAM Head-to-Head in T20S

Durham and Hampshire have faced each other in only one game in T20S, in which Hampshire won by 55 runs. So, Durham will aim to balance the scoreline at 1-1, with a win in this game, while Hampshire will eye winning this game and take the scoreline to 2-0.

Pitch and Weather

The surface at the Riverside Ground in Chester-Le-Street is a green top, which might offer seam movement early, but it might flatten as the game progresses into the second half of the game.

It will be a chilly evening in Chester-Le-Street, with mostly cloudy weather. The temperature around the start of the game with the temperatures hovering around 18 degrees Celsius.

Team News

Both teams will look forward to not doing any last-minute experiment in a crucial knockout game. Considering the importance of the game, both teams might go ahead with the unchanged playing XI they played with in their respective previous games.

DUR Probable XI: Graham Clark, Alex Lees(c), David Bedingham, Colin Ackermann, Oliver Robinson(w), Will Rhodes, Ben Raine, Matthew Potts, Codi Yusuf, Nathan Sowter, Callum Parkinson.

HAM Probable XI: Toby Albert(w), Tom Prest, Joe Weatherley, Hilton Cartwright, Benny Howell, James Fuller, Liam Dawson, Fletcha Middleton, Chris Wood(c), Scott Currie, Sonny Baker.