Lynn and McSweeney 'never gave us a sniff' admits Gloucestershire all-rounder Price

Set 165 to win in 20 overs, the Steelbacks cruised to victory with seven wickets and 22 balls to spare, with Lynn and McSweeney hitting contrasting half-centuries.

Lynn's 69 from 36 balls was mainly all power, brute force and a lot of legside hits, while McSweeney's 53 from 36 balls was a much more effortless and elegant innings - although he too gave one or two deliveries a good old whack when required.

The pair put on 91 for the second wicket in 8.4 overs to take the game away from Gloucestershire and Price, who eventually bowled McSweeney as he finished with two for 28, was impressed.

Although he was also left to rue the fact Lynn was dropped on the boundary by his fellow Aussie D'Arcy Short when on just 23. It was a regulation take, and a costly miss.

“Chris Lynn is a tough guy to bowl to, and you know that if he bats a period of time, he's going to score really quickly," he said. "He doesn't look to block many balls.

"We obviously had a chance, but that's a shame that goes down and he capitalised.

“McSweeney came in and got going quickly as well, which was massive, just didn't really give us an end to bowl at.

"So, they played well and got ahead of that chase and never really gave us a sniff."

On his team's batting effort that saw them hit 164 for nine, with James Sales taking five for 21, Price admitted it wasn't up to scratch.

“I think we're pretty disappointed and we probably didn't get either skill set right, although we had good moments," he said.

“We probably had a good platform with the bat, 10 overs in, and I'd have loved to have pushed on there but T20 is difficult because there's often wickets in clusters we stumbled a bit.

"To get 165 was probably a bit below par, but then obviously they've gone and got those runs pretty quickly."