Salt and Buttler Fire as Lancashire Leapfrog Steelbacks in Vitality Blast

Phil Salt smashed 80 from 57 balls—with a replacement bat—and Jos Buttler marked his Blast return with 54 as Lancashire Lightning chased down 178 to beat Northamptonshire Steelbacks. Saqib Mahmood’s late hat-trick helped restrict the hosts, before Luke Wells sealed the chase with back-to-back sixes, lifting Lancashire above the Steelbacks in the North Group.

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