LON­DON – West In­dies left-han­der Nicholas Pooran was up­staged for fel­low T&T's Ravi Ram­paul, as Der­byshire beat York­shire by five wick­ets in the T20 Blast on Sat­ur­day.

In his first in­nings fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful World Cup for West In­dies, the 23-year-old Pooran was dis­missed for 12 as York­shire, opt­ing for first knock, made 164 for eight at Chester­field.

He smashed a four and a six in a sev­en-ball knock be­fore per­ish­ing in the 12th over to leave his side in trou­ble at 77 for six.

How­ev­er, Jor­dan Thomp­son struck ex­act­ly 50 off 27 balls bat­ting at num­ber eight, to re­vive the in­nings and hand York­shire a com­pet­i­tive to­tal.

Thomp­son clob­bered two fours and five six­es, putting on 66 for the sev­enth wick­et with Jonathan Tat­ter­sall who made an un­beat­en 39 off 31 de­liv­er­ies.

Ram­paul, who played 18 Tests and 92 One-Day In­ter­na­tion­als for West In­dies, fin­ished with two for 29 from his four overs while fel­low seam­er Lo­gan van Beek picked up two for 22.

How­ev­er, it was left-arm spin­ner Mark Watt, with four for 19, who broke the back­bone of York­shire’s in­nings.

In re­ply, cap­tain Bil­ly Godle­man stroked an un­beat­en 70 off 56 balls as Der­byshire reached their tar­get off the first ball of the fi­nal over.

Open­er Godle­man punched three fours and four six­es and post­ed 65 for the fourth wick­et with Leus du Plooy who made 30 off 21 de­liv­er­ies.

At Can­ter­bury, for­mer Windies pac­er Jerome Tay­lor pro­duced a de­cent spell but was un­able to pre­vent Som­er­set from go­ing down to Kent by 41 runs.

The 35-year-old Tay­lor claimed two for 34 from his four-over com­ple­ment as Kent tal­lied 165 for nine off their 20 overs, with 20-year-old Ol­lie Robin­son top-scor­ing with 53.

Som­er­set then fold­ed for 124 in the penul­ti­mate over with left-arm spin­ner Im­ran Qayyum slic­ing through the in­nings to fin­ish with five for 21.

(CMC)