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Sean Dickson has hit three half-centuries for Somerset in this year's T20 Blast
Vitality Blast quarter-final, Taunton
Bears 190-6 (20 overs): Davies 71; Green 2-30
Somerset 191-6 (19.5 overs): Dickson 71*, Abell 51; Hannon-Dalby 3-24
Somerset won by four wickets
Sean Dickson carried Somerset to a record-equalling 11th appearance at T20 Blast finals day as the Bears' quarter-final curse struck again on a nail-biting night under the Taunton lights.
Requiring 19 to win from the final over, Dickson hit Ed Barnard for two sixes and a four to get his side over the line with one ball remaining.
A Somerset victory had looked unlikely, with the South African arriving at the crease at 80-3 with 11 runs per over required but he first supported Tom Abell (51) before taking centre stage with his unbeaten 71 coming from 26 balls.
Bears had looked on course to finally win a last-eight tie after four successive defeats when posting 190-6, with skipper Alex Davies making 71 and Rob Yates smacking the tournament's leading wicket-taker Riley Meredith for six successive boundaries, only for Dickson to deny them at the death.
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