Sunday's NatWest T20 Blast results
South Group, The Oval: Surrey beat Sussex by 17 runs
North Group, Emirates Riverside: Birmingham beat Durham by eight wickets
South Group, Bristol: Essex beat Gloucestershire by three wickets
South Group, Taunton: Glamorgan beat Somerset by one run
North Group, New Road: Nottinghamshire beat Worcestershire by 11 runs
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Nottinghamshire are solid 100/30 favourites after becoming the first team to book a place in the quarter-finals of the NatWest T20 Blast with a fifth consecutive win at Worcestershire's expense.
The Outlaws looked beatable after posting 145 all out at New Road, Alex Hepburn's five for 24 the Rapids' best ever T20 bowling figures, but leaned on their reliable bowling attack.
They duly restricted the chase to 134 for eight, Harry Gurney closing out an 11-run victory with a fine last over after Dan Christian took three middle-order scalps.
Nottinghamshire are certain to progress from the North Group now, with 18 points and seven wins from 13 matches.
In the South Group, 6/1 second favourites Glamorgan moved to the summit as Marchant de Lange held his nerve to deliver a tense one-run victory over Somerset.
The Welsh side had posted 183 for six on the back of a career-best 66 from Nick Selman but Johann Myburgh took the hosts close to the finishing line with a well-paced 87.
De Lange bowled his fellow South African with the penultimate delivery of the 18th over and then, with Somerset needing just eight to win from the last over, kept them to only six.
Despite suffering more no results than any team in the competition, Glamorgan moved above Hampshire with a sixth success of the season.
Surrey received a shot in the arm as Aaron Finch's unbeaten 114, from just 64 balls, carried them past Sussex and in to 9/1 from 12s.
England's Jason Roy also chipped in 50 as he and Finch put on 102 for the first wicket at the Kia Oval.
The visitors fell well short on 176 for seven as veteran spinner Gareth Batty claimed for four 24.
Birmingham Bears remained on course for the knockout stage and 7/1 for the title with a regulation defeat of rock-bottom Durham.
The Bears raced past the home team's modest 145 for eight with 31 balls to spare and eight wickets intact.
Openers Ed Pollock and Dom Sibley did the bulk of the heavy lifting, scoring twin half-centuries as Ryan Pringle took two consolation wickets.
Essex are 16/1 from 25/1 after also making short work of chasing against Gloucestershire at Bristol.
Set a trifling 122 for victory, Jamie Porter having returned career-best figures of four for 20, Essex got there with 22 balls unbowled and Varun Chopra top-scoring with 44.
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