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ABC News
12-08-2025
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Meg Lanning gets the better of Ellyse Perry in Hundred's battle of Australian greats
It is a rare experience for Australian bowlers to be clouted to all parts in the women's game but, if anyone can do it, it is former captain Meg Lanning. The veteran played the leading role as Oval Invincibles smashed the best powerplay score in the five-year history of the Hundred Women, cracking 54 in 25 balls, the first 50 of which came from 20 balls bowled by a trio of Aussies. That set Invincibles up for a 100-ball score of 5-174, the third-highest in Hundred history, and Birmingham Phoenix never looked like matching it. Georgia Voll gave them brief hope with a scintillating start, making 22 off 15 balls, but was caught at mid wicket with a juggling catch by compatriot Amanda Jade-Wellington. Ellyse Perry hit her first two balls for four but she had come to the crease with Phoenix 2-31 and needing a very demanding 144 off 74. The all-rounder had just reached 29 off 16 balls by launching Jade-Wellington for six, but was caught behind next ball trying to cut. Six balls later, Jade-Wellington brilliantly ran out Emma Lamb (25) and, at 4-83 with 59 balls gone, the game was done. Jade-Wellington finished with 2-27 off her 20 balls as the visitors won by 22 runs at Edgbaston, Phoenix closing on 6-152. Phoenix had opened up on Tuesday (local time) with a trio of Australians, Megan Schutt, skipper Perry and Voll, and Lanning tucked into them with English opening partner Lauren Wingfield-HIll. All three bowlers were punished at a rate of more than 10-an-over, not helped by each conceding extras. Perry used seven bowlers to try to stem the flow, but only spinner Hannah Baker had any effect, dismissing both openers as she took 2-24 in her 20, by far the best economy rate. Lanning was caught at deep midwicket by Lamb for a 19-ball 36, then Wingfield-Hill was taken by Perry at mid-off for 33 off 27. However, Alice Capsey had come in with the platform set and the big-hitting England batter, dropped on 21, thumped 52 off 29 balls. When she was out there were two balls left, Jade-Wellington was caught trying to hit the first for four, Ash Gardner then came in and hit her only ball to the boundary. Perry finished with 0-34 off 20 balls, Schutt 1-34 off her 20, and Voll's only five-ball set went for 20. AAP
Yahoo
12-08-2025
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Lanning's assault on Aussies sets up Invincibles win
It is a rare experience for Australian bowlers to be clouted to all parts in the women's game, but if anyone can do it it's former captain Meg Lanning. The veteran played the leading role as Oval Invincibles smashed the best powerplay score in the five-year history of the Hundred Women, cracking 54 in 25 balls, the first 50 of which came from 20 balls bowled by a trio of Aussies. That set Invincibles up for a 100-ball score of 5-174, the third highest in Hundred history, and Birmingham Phoenix never looked like matching it. Georgia Voll gave them brief hope with a scintillating start, making 22 off 15 balls, but was caught at midwicket with a juggling catch by compatriot Amanda Jade-Wellington. There's a lot of work to do in this run chase, but Ellyse Perry is going for it! 💪#TheHundred — The Hundred (@thehundred) August 12, 2025 Ellyse Perry hit her first two balls for four but she had come to the crease with Phoenix 2-31 needing a very demanding 144 off 74. The allrounder had just reached 29 off 16 balls by launching Jade-Wellington for six, but was caught behind next ball trying to cut. Six balls later Jade-Wellington brilliantly ran out Emma Lamb (25) and at 4-83, with 59 balls gone, the game was done. Jade-Wellington finished with 2-27 off her 20 balls as the visitors won by 22 runs at Edgbaston, Phoenix closing on 6-152. Phoenix had opened up on Tuesday (local time) with a trio of Australians, Megan Schutt, skipper Perry and Voll, and Lanning tucked into them with English opening partner Lauren Wingfield-HIll. A super shot by Meg Lanning! 🙇#TheHundred — The Hundred (@thehundred) August 12, 2025 Meg Lanning launches a free hit from Georgia Voll for six All three bowlers took punishment at a rate of more than 10-an-over, not helped by each conceding extras. Perry used seven bowlers to try and stem the flow, but only spinner Hannah Baker had any effect, dismissing both openers as she took 2-24 in her 20, by far the best economy rate. Lanning was caught at deep midwicket by Lamb for a 19-ball 36, then Wingfield-Hill was taken by Perry at mid-off for 33 off 27. Meg Lanning is currently leading the way in #TheHundred Women's Competition with 177 runs! 😎 — The Hundred (@thehundred) August 12, 2025 Meg Lanning has overtaken Grace Harris as this year's highest Hundred Women scorer. However, Alice Capsey had come in with the platform set and the big-hitting England batter, dropped on 21, thumped 52 off 29 balls. "The openers were brilliant," said Capsey. "One of our reflections after the first two games was that we bat so deep we can take some more calculated risks. "They took the game on so nicely and it made my job pretty easy." When she was out there were two balls left, Jade-Wellington was caught trying to hit the first for four, Ash Gardner then came in and hit her only ball to the boundary. Perry finished with 0-34 off 20 balls, Schutt 1-34 off her 20, and Voll's only five-ball set went for 20. "It was a little bit tough today," Perry told BBC. "We probably let up a few too many runs in the field, particularly in the powerplay. They batted really well as well, so you have to appreciate that. I thought we put up a pretty valiant chase and it was nice that we hung in there at the end."
BBC News
09-07-2025
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- BBC News
First win for Somerset Women a 'long time coming'
Somerset all-rounder Niamh Holland said victory had been a "long time coming" as the club ended a nine-game T20 Blast winless beat Essex by four wickets to win their first match since the tournament began on 30 May. All-rounder Holland was wearing the skipper's armband for the first time with captain Sophie Luff out with a calf strain."It feels great to finally get it over the line, it feels like it's been a long time coming," she told BBC Radio Somerset."I feel like we've had a lot of these games where we've been so tight, but I'm glad that people stood up and got us over the line." Somerset had been close to victory previously this campaign before falling in the closing stages however Holland praised her team-mates' resolve to see a match out for the first time. Australian international Amanda-Jade Wellington made 29 from 23 balls and shared in a stand of 45 for the fourth wicket with Fran and Alex Griffiths needed 16 runs off the final 17 balls and held on to clinch the win as they successfully reached the winning target of 156 with three balls to the club remain bottom of the T20 Blast table with six points, Holland said she hoped the elusive first win would kick-start their campaign."That's what we struggled with is someone to finish it off and we've finally done it which is great," Holland said."I think it's really important that we take this momentum."It might not feel like that all the time with all the results but we've been picking small things up each game to try and almost piece them together and it feels like we've got there [on Tuesday] which is brilliant."
BBC News
08-07-2025
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- BBC News
Somerset beat Essex for first women's T20 win
Amanda-Jade Wellington played a match-winning innings under pressure as Somerset beat Essex by four wickets at Taunton to register their first win of the T20 Blast in their 10th Australian international made 29 from 23 balls and shared in a crucial stand of 45 for the fourth wicket with Fran Wilson, who contributed 41, as the home side chased down a victory target of 156 with three balls to MacGregor claimed 3-19 to keep Essex in the hunt, but Wellington and Alex Griffiths, required to score 16 runs off the final 17 balls, held their nerve to carry the Cider county to their first win of the from England A duty, Jodi Grewcock top-scored with 45 from 34 balls and shared in a stand of 58 for the third wicket with Cordelia Griffith as Essex posted 155-5 after being put into bat - with Wellington returning figures of 1-25 from her four overs. Deputising for the injured Sophie Luff, stand-in Somerset captain Niamh Holland won the toss, inserted the opposition and watched her bowlers reduce the visitors to 30-2 in 4.1 overs. Lauren Winfield-Hill plundered three boundaries in moving effortlessly to 19 from 14 balls, only to be lbw to an Olivia Barnes delivery that pinned her in the crease. Three balls later, fellow opener Grace Scrivens followed the former England batter back to the pavilion after pulling a shortish ball from Erin Vukusic to mid-wicket for with the task of repairing the damage, Griffith and Grewcock advanced the score to 40-2 at the end of the powerplay and 66-2 at the halfway stage, despite finding boundaries hard to come by. The 50 partnership occupied 45 balls and Griffith, having raised 31 from 29 balls, was beginning to accelerate when she attempted to pull Mollie Robbins to the deep mid-wicket boundary and succeeded only in finding Alex was the cue for Grewcock to take centre stage, the England A batter opening her shoulders to harvest three successive fours in an over from Barnes as the fielding side came under real pressure for the first time. Grewcock was eyeing a half-century when she gave the charge to Wellington's leg spin and holed out to Vukusic at were 115-4 in the 16th over with work still to do as Jo Gardner joined Maddie Penna in the middle. They staged a useful stand of 40 from 27 balls, Australian Penna scoring 21 at a run a ball and the forthright Gardner 22 from 12 deliveries, to hoist Essex to a competitive required the reassurance of a good start and Bex Odgers and Holland provided exactly that, adding 41 in five overs before the former blotted her copybook and top-edged to short third man for 20 off the bowling of Eva had also scored 20 when she surrendered her wicket in similar fashion next over, skying a catch behind off Esmae MacGregor as the home side slipped to by her half century against Hampshire last time out, Fran Wilson hit the ground running as Somerset passed 50 in the seventh, while debutant Ruby Davis calmed any nerves by straight-hitting Gray for four as the third wicket partnership began to profit. They added 46 in 36 balls and were threatening to take the contest by the scruff of the neck when Davis, on 19, attempted to reverse sweep MacGregor and was adjudged lbw with the score 87-3 in the drove Grewcock down the ground and pulled Smale for four to serve notice of her intentions, but Abtaha Maqsood and MacGregor kept things tight to push the asking rate above eight. But Somerset's fourth wicket pair took 15 off the 15th, bowled by Smale, at which point they required 35 from looked to be a formality, only for Wilson to dance down the wicket and lose off stump to MacGregor with 24 needed off 22 balls. Wellington then hit Scrivens to long-on in the final over, but Griffiths and Chloe Skelton saw the job by ECB Reporters' Network, supported by Rothesay Wednesday T20 Blast fixtures Newbury: Hampshire Hawks v Lancashire Thunder (14:00 BST start)Edgbaston: Bears v Surrey (15:00 BST)
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12-05-2025
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Somerset Women fall shot in mammoth run chase against Surrey
Metro Bank One Day Cup: Surrey 306-7 defeated Somerset 215 by 101 runs (DLS) Bryony Smith posted a superb hundred to steer Surrey to a convincing 101-run win over Somerset on the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern Method in the Metro Bank One Day Cup women's competition at the Cooper Associates Ground in Taunton, writes Andrew Stockhausen, ECB Reporters' Network. Leading by example, Surrey's captain scored 110 from 103 balls, struck 15 fours and dominated crucial stands of 100 and 134 with Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Sophia Dunkley for the first and third wickets respectively as the visitors made 306-7 in a contest reduced by rain to 44 overs a side. Dunkley raised an attractive 79 from 81 balls and Wyatt-Hodge contributed 44 with eight fours, while Australian spinner Amanda-Jade Wellington returned figures of 4-47. Chasing a revised target of 317, Somerset came up short in the face of accurate bowling and sharp fielding, Heather Knight and Wellington top-scoring with 36 and Alice Monaghan, Danielle Gregory and Alexa Stonehouse claiming two wickets apiece as the home side were dismissed for 215 in 40.5 overs. Somerset's seamers struggled with their lengths and Smith and Wyatt-Hodge took full advantage, raising 50 in just 6.3 overs amid a flurry of boundaries as Surrey got off to a flyer. Smith was especially severe on anything short and wide, accruing eight fours in a forthright 57-ball half century, as the opening partnership realised three figures in 13.4 overs. Wyatt-Hodge took on Somerset's spinners and was just six runs short of 50 when she finally came a cropper, attempting to carve Wellington through the covers and slicing high to backward point with the score on 100. Wellington then had Alice Capsey held at slip in the act of reverse sweeping to further reduce the visitors to 106-2. But there was no stopping Smith. Afforded a life on 80 when dropped in the deep by Laura Jackson off the bowling of Chloe Skelton, Surrey's skipper made good her escape to register a buccaneering hundred via 96 balls with 14 fours. She found a willing ally in Dunkley, who scored freely all around the wicket in compiling 50 from 57 deliveries, and these two threatened to take the game away from Somerset. READ MORE: Third successive victory for Somerset Women at Warwickshire Under intense pressure, the home side made too many errors in the field and the third wicket stand was already worth 112 when rain forced the players off with the score on 218-2 after 32.4 overs. Desperate to take wickets and bring the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern equation back into their favour, Somerset trusted in Wellington following the resumption. And the Australian did not disappoint, persuading Smith and Paige Scholfield to hole out to Knight at long-off in quick succession. Having done her utmost to ensure the visitors would post a total in excess of 300, the resourceful Dunkley stepped across her stumps and was bowled around her legs by Skelton as Somerset continued to fight back. Charlie Dean then accounted for Monaghan and Alice Davidson-Richards, but not before these two, together with Kira Chathli, had added valuable lower middle order runs. Chasing a revised total of 317 in 44 overs at a required rate of 7.2 runs an over, Somerset suffered an early setback, Emma Corney playing down the wrong line and being bowled by Rhianna Macdonald-Gay with 19 on the board. Adhering to the tenets of line and length, Surrey's seamers were able to create pressure and the required rate was above eight when Sophie Luff top-edged a pull shot and was brilliantly caught by Macdonald-Gay on the run at mid-wicket. Somerset's captain had scored 15 and the home side were 56-2 in the thirteenth over with much work still to do. Having failed to defend big totals in matches against Warwickshire and Lancashire, Surrey needed to remove former England captain Knight for their own peace of mind. This they managed to do in startling fashion, Monaghan deflecting a Fran Wilson drive onto the stumps with Knight, having scored 36 from 41 balls, hopelessly out of her ground. There appeared to be no way back for Somerset from 73-3 at the end of the fifteenth. Surrey were fully in charge by the time Fran Wilson was stumped by Chathli, pushing forward to Gregory and departing for 23, while Dean was held at backward point off the bowling of Stonehouse as the home side lurched to 117-5. The game was effectively up by the time Griffiths was bowled by Gregory for 14 with the score on 144, but nobody had told Wellington or Skelton, who staged a defiant alliance of 53 to hold up Surrey. Capsey ended Wellington's innings on 36, the Australian holing out to deep backward square with a notional 120 more runs needed from eight overs.
