Steelbacks still in with a shot of quarter-final place as they head to Gloucestershire

Darren Lehmann's side make the trip to Cheltenham College knowing that a win could yet see them seal a place in the knockout stages of the competition for the first time since 2016.

For them to seal a top three finish, they first have to beat rock-bottom Gloucestershire, and then hope that three of the sides currently placed between second and fifth lose their final fixtures.

Those teams are Notts Outlaws, Lancashire, Surrey and Kent.

Surrey and Notts play each other in their final group game at the Oval, so barring a tie one of those will lose, while Lancashire go to Taunton to play Somerset and Kent take on Warwickshire at Rugby School.

The Steelbacks kept alive their slim qualification hopes with Sunday's seven-wicket win over Somerset that was achieved with 20 overs to spare.

That result, and the emphatic manner of it, left Northants with a better net run-rate than those four teams above them and gives them a sniff of being involved in an away quarter-final on Friday (August 14).

The Steelbacks will be aiming for a sixth win over Gloucestershire this summer, having already beaten Mark Alleyne's side three times in the Vitality Blast, and twice in the Rothesay County Championship Division Two.

The match is part of the annual Towergate Cheltenham Cricket Festival, with Gloucestershire aiming to claim what would be their third win over the competition.

Gloucestershire squad: James Bracey (c, wk), Daaryoush Ahmed, Cameron Bancroft, Tommy Boorman, Marchant de Lange, Kamran Dhariwal, Joseph Eckland, Alfie Johnson, Ed Middleton, Joe Phillips, Ollie Price, Aman Rao, Ahmed Syed.

Northants Steelbacks squad: Nathan McSweeney (c), George Bartlett, Yuzi Chahal, Liam Guthrie, Rob Keogh, Sam King, Dom Leech, Tiaan Louw, Lewis McManus (wk), Gus Miller, Luke Procter, Stuart van der Merwe, Raphy Weatherall