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Yahoo
18 hours ago
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Surrey dominate Durham, Thunder beat Bears
Danni Wyatt-Hodge's half-century was her third in four innings in the T20 Blast [Getty Images] Surrey continue to set the pace in the women's T20 Blast as punishing batting by England's Danni Wyatt-Hodge ushered them to a comfortable nine-wicket win over Durham at The Oval. After restricting the visitors to 141-5, they made it four wins out of four by reaching 143-1 with 43 balls to spare, Wyatt-Hodge hitting the winning boundary to finish with 74 not out from just 36 balls. Advertisement In Sunday's other game, Lancashire Thunder picked up only their second win in five matches as Tara Norris made an unbeaten 33 and took 3-25 to help them beat Bears by five runs. Chasing a target of 163, the home side needed 14 off the final over at Edgbaston, but could only muster eight, with Natasha Wraith finishing on 57 not out from 36 deliveries, the highest score of the match. Match scorecards The game against Surrey began badly for Durham, who saw both openers bowled inside the first five overs - Suzie Bates and Mady Villiers both dismissed by Ryana MacDonald-Gay. From 29-3, Hollie Armitage led a revival, adding 40 with Bess Heath (27) and 38 with Mia Rogers, and although she went to 50 off 49 balls in the last over and Katherine Fraser hit the final ball of the innings for six, their score did not look enough. Advertisement So it proved as Wyatt-Hodge and Bryony Smith matched each other shot for shot in bringing up a 50 partnership in the fourth over. Wyatt-Hodge launched Katie Levick over mid-wicket for a maximum, the first of two sixes in her innings to go with 11 fours, but the stand came to an end on 94 when Smith was caught in the deep off Phoebe Turner for 44 from 28 balls. Replacement Kira Chathli opened her account with a six and made an unbeaten 19 from 13 before Wyatt-Hodge ended the game by cutting Bates to the point boundary. Bears come up short despite Wraith knock Emma Lamb was back in the Lancashire side against the Bears following England duty but it was not a happy return as she was bowled through the gate for five by Issy Wong in the first over. Advertisement They struggled to 31-4, batting in a steady drizzle, before a 69-run partnership between Ailsa Lister and Australian Alana King which ended when the former was lbw for 36 as she tried to sweep Hannah Baker. King made 21 before hitting Millie Taylor (2-25) to deep mid-wicket but Norris lofted a six over mid-off as she steered Thunder to 162-7. Bears made a positive start in reply as Davina Perrin made a rapid 34 before being bowled by one from Grace Johnson which kept low. Charis Pavely contributed 27 but they were losing momentum at 101-6 in the 14th over when Wong was bowled by Norris as she tried to make room to force the ball through the off side. Advertisement Wraith, though, kept them in the game, clearing the ropes and hitting four fours as she reached 50 from just 29 balls, but wickets continued to fall at the other end and she lost the strike midway through the last over as Thunder squeezed home. "We have had a couple of tough ones in the last couple of games, so to get a win on the board is brilliant and we are right back in the mixer," Lancashire skipper Ellie Threlkeld said. Wednesday fixtures Riverside: Durham v Bears (14:30 BST) The Oval: Surrey v The Blaze (18:30 BST)
BBC News
18 hours ago
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- BBC News
Surrey dominate Durham, Thunder beat Bears
Surrey continue to set the pace in the women's T20 Blast as punishing batting by England's Danni Wyatt-Hodge ushered them to a comfortable nine-wicket win over Durham at The restricting the visitors to 141-5, they made it four wins out of four by reaching 143-1 with 43 balls to spare, Wyatt-Hodge hitting the winning boundary to finish with 74 not out from just 36 Sunday's other game, Lancashire Thunder picked up only their second win in five matches as Tara Norris made an unbeaten 33 and took 3-25 to help them beat Bears by five a target of 163, the home side needed 14 off the final over at Edgbaston, but could only muster eight, with Natasha Wraith finishing on 57 not out from 36 deliveries, the highest score of the match. Match scorecards The game against Surrey began badly for Durham, who saw both openers bowled inside the first five overs - Suzie Bates and Mady Villiers both dismissed by Ryana 29-3, Hollie Armitage led a revival, adding 40 with Bess Heath (27) and 38 with Mia Rogers, and although she went to 50 off 49 balls in the last over and Katherine Fraser hit the final ball of the innings for six, their score did not look it proved as Wyatt-Hodge and Bryony Smith matched each other shot for shot in bringing up a 50 partnership in the fourth launched Katie Levick over mid-wicket for a maximum, the first of two sixes in her innings to go with 11 fours, but the stand came to an end on 94 when Smith was caught in the deep off Phoebe Turner for 44 from 28 Kira Chathli opened her account with a six and made an unbeaten 19 from 13 before Wyatt-Hodge ended the game by cutting Bates to the point boundary. Bears come up short despite Wraith knock Emma Lamb was back in the Lancashire side against the Bears following England duty but it was not a happy return as she was bowled through the gate for five by Issy Wong in the first struggled to 31-4, batting in a steady drizzle, before a 69-run partnership between Ailsa Lister and Australian Alana King which ended when the former was lbw for 36 as she tried to sweep Hannah made 21 before hitting Millie Taylor (2-25) to deep mid-wicket but Norris lofted a six over mid-off as she steered Thunder to made a positive start in reply as Davina Perrin made a rapid 34 before being bowled by one from Grace Johnson which kept Pavely contributed 27 but they were losing momentum at 101-6 in the 14th over when Wong was bowled by Norris as she tried to make room to force the ball through the off though, kept them in the game, clearing the ropes and hitting four fours as she reached 50 from just 29 balls, but wickets continued to fall at the other end and she lost the strike midway through the last over as Thunder squeezed home. "We have had a couple of tough ones in the last couple of games, so to get a win on the board is brilliant and we are right back in the mixer," Lancashire skipper Ellie Threlkeld said. Wednesday fixtures Riverside: Durham v Bears (14:30 BST)The Oval: Surrey v The Blaze (18:30 BST)
BBC News
4 days ago
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- BBC News
Harris stars as Surrey down Hawks
Grace Harris posted a blistering half-century and took three vital wickets on debut as Surrey inflicted a first defeat on Hampshire to go top of the Women's T20 Blast Australian rattled 63 from 35 balls as the hosts amassed an imposing 213-4 from their 20 overs, with the evergreen Danni Wyatt-Hodge cracking 62 and Paige Scholfield smashing an unbeaten 49 from just 18 the Hawks just ahead of the ask with five overs remaining, Harris then ousted opener Ella McCaughan after an imperious knock of 81 and sent skipper Georgia Adams on her way two balls later to end the visitors' 31-year-old off-spinner - who has more than 50 T20 appearances for Australia under her belt - finished with figures of 3-18 as Surrey won by 32 runs in their first game at the Oval under the county's name. After being asked to bat first, the hosts built a solid foundation with openers Wyatt-Hodge and skipper Bryony Smith posting 57-0 in the six-over clearing the rope three times, Smith fell to her opposite number Adams going for number four, caught at deep mid-wicket by Charli Knott for 33 from 20 deliveries in the eighth over with the score on opener Wyatt-Hodge was dropped three times as she put the pedal down but added 54 in just over five overs with Harris before skying seamer Freya Davies off a top edge to deep backward point after making 62 from 41 balls with seven fours and two would have been run out for one had it not been for a mis-field by keeper Rhianna Southby but then combined with Scholfield to add another 62 from the next 32 deliveries before the Australian miscued a ramp shot and departed for 63 from 35 balls, with five fours and four sixes, to start the 19th over, with Davies finishing with 2-36 from her four Kira Chathli was run out without scoring, setting off for a leg-side single which wasn't there, Scholfield motored on, cracking five fours and adding three maximums to finish unbeaten on 49 from just 18 deliveries as the hosts posted Bouchier made a blistering start to the reply with two fours and a straight six as the Hawks were 16-0 from the opening five deliveries only for the England batter to hole-out to Phoebe Franklin at deep mid-wicket to finish Kalea Moore's making 16 from nine balls Australia star Knott then cut Tilly Corteen-Coleman straight to Wyatt-Hodge diving forward at Kemp was pushed up the order but feathered an edge through to the keeper off Alexa Stonehouse to depart for and Franklin stemmed the flow for Surrey and at the mid-way point of the chase the Hawks were 96-3, two runs fewer than the hosts at the same looked in good touch throughout and brought up her third straight half-century from 32 balls with her 10th four as light rain began to fall in south a slow start, Adams had a stroke of luck as she skied Franklin back to the non-striker's end, only for Franklin to uncertainly put down the catch with Adams running within a couple of feet of her to complete the Hawks skipper hit fit-again Tash Farrant for back-to-back boundaries to bring up the 50 partnership with McCaughan from 33 balls as the visitors stayed in touch while McCaughan was given another life as the diving Scholfield put down a high chance running around from long-on as the opener moved to 66 from 40 balls.A total of 62 was needed from the final five overs but Harris picked up the prize wicket of McCaughan who miscued an attempted pull back to the bowler to take a towering catch and send her back to the pavilion for 81 from 50 balls later, Scholfield pulled off a stunning catch at long-on, diving forward to cling on to send Adams on her way for 29 from 24 balls, taking the Hawks hopes with her and Harris bowled Mary Taylor from the final delivery as Surrey made it two wins from two and edged ahead of Essex at the top of the table on net run rate. Surrey all-rounder Grace Harris told the ECB Reporters Network: "It's a fantastic start. It was very good to get 200 on the board and then defend it."Bryony and Danni got us off to a fantastic start. I might have ridden my luck a bit early on, but as long as you cash in you're good to go right?"I was happy with the way I played. I was surprised to get a role in the death overs and a few cheeky wickets at the back end there."I just enjoy cricket and whatever role I'm given I try and embrace that."Hampshire skipper Georgia Adams said: "I think we are pretty happy with the way we went about that chase. I think we probably let them get 20 too many which in the end was probably the difference between the two sides."I think in a funny sort of way trying to stay ahead of the DLS score was actually helping us because it kept us on track throughout the overs. "I thought Ella was brilliant and we were ahead of the rate for a lot of it, but just fell away in the last five overs."We were playing cat and mouse with the rain a bit and it is difficult mentally because as batters at the crease you are always thinking what do we play for. "We battled through, but the Grace Harris over where we lost Macca (McCaughan) and I killed us really."
The Independent
14-05-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Sophie Ecclestone omitted from first England squad named by Charlotte Edwards
Sophie Ecclestone has been omitted from England's first squad under new head coach Charlotte Edwards, who says the spinner is 'physically not quite at 100 per cent yet' after a knee injury. Edwards and captain Nat Sciver-Brunt are set to usher in a new era in a white-ball series against the West Indies as England look to move on from their 16-0 defeat in the Women's Ashes earlier this year. They will do so without the world's top-ranked bowler in both ODIs and T20s, who made her first appearance after two months on the sidelines for Lancashire in the Women's One-Day Cup on Wednesday. Maia Bouchier has also been left out of both squads to face the Windies after struggling in England's humbling by Australia, which led to the removal of Jon Lewis as coach and Heather Knight as captain. Ecclestone courted controversy on the tour after refusing a television interview with Alex Hartley, who previously called into question the England team's conditioning levels while not singling anyone out. England's fitness became a central focal point Down Under but Edwards, who has referred to it as 'the F-word', was adamant at her unveiling she will use her own eyes to judge what she has inherited. While Knight, as anticipated, returns to the fold as a player, Danni Wyatt-Hodge and Alice Capsey are in the squad for the three T20s only, the first of which gets under way in Canterbury next Wednesday. Fast bowler Issy Wong has been recalled to the T20 side, having drifted out of favour under Lewis and Knight, while uncapped seamer Emily Arlott is in both squads. Edwards, who selected the squad alongside newly appointed national selector Lydia Greenway, plus directors Clare Connor and Jonathan Finch, said: 'Following her knee injury, Sophie Ecclestone is physically not quite at 100 per cent yet. 'She's been rehabbing and working hard but she's only just got back on the park for Lancashire so she doesn't have enough cricket under her belt to be ready for this series. 'Maia Bouchier misses out having been a part of the Ashes series. Maia's talent is there for all to see and the challenge to her is to go and make consistent match-winning contributions in domestic cricket. 'It's the same for any player who'd disappointed to not be a part of these squads.' Tammy Beaumont returns to the T20 squad and retains her ODI spot while all-rounders Freya Kemp and Danielle Gibson and quick bowler Lauren Filer were not considered for selection because of injuries. England Women T20 squad: N Sciver-Brunt (captain), E Arlott, T Beaumont, L Bell, A Capsey, C Dean, S Dunkley, S Glenn, A Jones, H Knight, P Scholfield, L Smith, I Wong, D Wyatt-Hodge. England Women ODI squad: N Sciver-Brunt (captain), A Davidson-Richards, E Arlott, T Beaumont, L Bell, K Cross, C Dean, S Dunkley, M Gaur, S Glenn, A Jones, H Knight, E Lamb, L Smith.
BBC News
14-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Ecclestone left out of first Edwards England squad
Star bowler Sophie Ecclestone has been left out of new coach Charlotte Edwards' first squad to face West Indies as England look to manage her return from a knee is currently playing in her first match of the English season, scoring a 49-ball 50 in the first innings of Lancashire's One-Day Cup fixture against Warwickshire at 26-year-old is one of several senior players omitted by Edwards, who will coach her country for the first time after being appointed in the aftermath of England's disastrous Ashes batter Maia Bouchier does not feature in either the one-day international or T20 squad, while veteran Danni Wyatt-Hodge will sit out the 50-over are recalls for batter Emma Lamb, all-rounder Alice Davidson-Richards and seamer Issy Wong, while uncapped medium pacer Emily Arlott is also face the West Indies in three ODIs and three T20s, starting in Canterbury on 21 June. ——————————————————— England ODI and T20 squads: Nat Sciver-Brunt (capt, The Blaze), Amy Jones (The Blaze), Charlie Dean (Somerset), Emily Arlott (Warwickshire), Heather Knight (Somerset), Lauren Bell (Hampshire), Linsey Smith (Hampshire), Sarah Glenn (The Blaze), Sophia Dunkley (Surrey), Tammy Beaumont (The Blaze)ODI squad only: Alice Davidson-Richards (Surrey), Emma Lamb (Lancashire), Kate Cross (Lancashire), Mahika Gaur (Lancashire)T20 squad only: Alice Capsey (Surrey), Danni Wyatt-Hodge (Surrey), Issy Wong (Warwickshire), Paige Scholfield (Surrey) ———————————————————
