HAMPSHIRE will be away to Worcestershire in the Natwest T20 Blast quarter-finals.

The final round of games was wiped out by a spate of abandonments, resulting in Hampshire finishing third in the South Group.

It means they will play Worcestershire, North Group runners-up, at New Road, provisionally on Friday, August 14.

Worcestershire are one of three counties Hampshire have never played a T20 game against (Derbyshire and Leicestershire are the others), but the counties know each other well from recent LV County Championship tussles.

No doubt captain Daryl Mitchell, Worcestershire’s leading T20 scorer, will hope to transfer his four-day record against Hampshire (three big unbeaten hundreds in his last four innings) to the shortest format.

Hampshire are peaking at the right time, as they often do, having won three of their last four games to qualify.

Worcestershire’s game against Lancashire was one of six abandonments last night, but they won their previous two to secure second place by three points from Northants.

Worcestershire are one of only two sides never to have reached Finals Day (Derbyshire being the other) having lost four quarter-finals in 2004, 2007, 2012 and, for the second time, to Surrey last year.

Hampshire missed out on second place and a home semi-final against Northants to Sussex, on net run rate.

Sussex’s game against Surrey at The Oval was the first to be abandoned this afternoon.

Essex’s home game against group winners Kent was also washed out, which meant Glamorgan could pip them to fourth place if they beat Gloucestershire at The Swalec.

One of only two games to survive the weather (Yorkshire beat North Group winners Warwickshire at Headingley) it was reduced to five-overs-a-side and Glamorgan lost by eight wickets.

T20 quarter-finals: Warwickshire v Essex, Worcestershire v Hants, Sussex v Northants, Kent v Lancashire