Keaton Jennings made 108, the most effective T20 rating for Lancashire, because the 2015 champions started the original T20 Blast season with a 27-bustle victory at Durham.
Jennings’ maiden T20 century from 60 balls helped his aspect post 190-3 sooner than they restricted Durham to 163-7.
Max Holden hit 102 no longer out off 60, in Middlesex’s 184-5 sooner than a downpour ended the sport at Chelmsford.
Rain also prevented results between Kent and Hampshire at Canterbury, and Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire.
File partnership for Red Rose
Lancashire’s focus on over with to Chester-le-Avenue used to be the acceptable match of the afternoon to continue to exist the weather because the T20 Blast made a belated delivery because of the of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jennings had most attention-grabbing reached fifty Thrice beforehand in T20s – and no longer since 2018 – but surpassed his old simplest of 88, for Durham in opposition to Northamptonshire, placing 10 fours and three sixes, one among them straight down the ground off England mercurial bowler Charge Wood.
He grew to alter into the sixth T20 centurion for Lancashire and the first since Liam Livingstone at Derby in 2018.
Jennings and and Alex Davies, who made 65 from 50 balls, shared a gap stand of 170 in 17.3 overs – the most effective partnership for any wicket in Lancashire’s T20 ancient past.
The total used to be the fourth-perfect in T20s at Chester-le-Avenue and proved out of Durham’s reach despite Alex Lees’ 51 from 39 deliveries.
“Durham has been a obvious build in my career to be succesful to reach abet and rating some runs right here used to be inconceivable,” talked about Jennings.
“Charge Wood is a terribly magnificent mate of mine and it be continually unfamiliar competing in opposition to him because of the you basically need him to enhance. Or no longer it’s basically bittersweet, but it without a doubt used to be a obvious day for me.”
Holden punishes holders
Holden’s 59-ball century with nine fours and three sixes used to be the seventh T20 hundred for Middlesex and magnificent his second rating over 50 in the county sport’s shortest format.
He gave Middlesex an different to upset 2019 champions Essex sooner than heavy rain arrived at Chelmsford with the house aspect in barely the second over of their breeze.
Kent, who incorporated England batsman Zak Crawley, were some distance more frustrated as their breeze of 140 in opposition to Hampshire used to be halted with magnificent five more balls desired to constitute a match by plan of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern System.
Matt Milnes produced his T20 simplest figures of 3-19 and Fred Klaassen 2-20 to retain the traffic to most attention-grabbing 139-6 at Canterbury.
Kent raced to 52-0 from 4.1 overs with Crawley, original from his 267 for England in opposition to Pakistan, making 22 no longer out from most attention-grabbing nine balls, but rain swept in to forestall to any extent extra play and the points were shared.
The rain arrived even earlier in the day at Bristol and no longer a single ball of play used to be probably as Gloucestershire’s opener in opposition to Northamptonshire used to be known as off sooner than the advertised delivery time.