Packed grounds for Twenty20
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bbc.co.uk
Three county grounds are sold out and Nottinghamshire are expecting their biggest crowd in over 30 years for Monday's Twenty20 Cup quarter-finals.
Essex sold their 6,500 tickets within four hours for the floodlit clash with Yorkshire, which starts at 1900 BST.
Gloucestershire spent the weekend selling the final 1,000 seats at Nevil Road for the visit of Surrey.
And Leicestershire will pack Grace Road as they look to reach finals day for the fourth time in as many years.
Kent, who have never reached the semi-finals but are one of two best third-placed teams in the group stages, are the visitors.
And Foxes chief executive Paul Maylard-Mason said: "It's fantastic news that we will shut the gates on a full house for the first time since the introduction of Twenty20 cricket."
The last time Notts saw a crowd of more than 10,000 for a domestic match is believed to be in 1975, for a Gillette Cup quarter-final with Derbyshire.
Chief executive Derek Brewer said: "We're just looking for as big a crowd as we can possibly get - certainly 8-10,000.
"The fact that we have a home tie against Northants was a bonus."
Four sides each won six of their eight group matches, leaving the competition wide open.
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