Ravi Bopara rolled back the years with a sensational century - his third in a T20 career that has now spanned 22 years and almost 500 individual contests - to power Northamptonshire into Vitality Blast Finals Day at the expense of the tournament favourites, Surrey, on a thrilling night at the Kia Oval.

Bopara has been on the scene so long that he is old enough to have featured in the second-ever T20 fixture - for Essex, also against Surrey, in the original Twenty20 Cup in June 2003. But now, at the age of 40, he produced arguably his greatest knock in the format, to give Northants a shot at their third Blast title, and first since 2016.

The contest had already been reduced to 14 overs a side due to heavy evening rain when Northants - asked to bat first - slumped to 1 for 2 in the fir

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