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BBC News
19-05-2025
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Top two Hants & Lancs win again in One-Day Cup
Charli Knott and Georgia Adams shared a stand of 114 as One-Day Cup group leaders Hampshire edged home by three wickets against Warwickshire at made 82 off 88 balls and Adams 68, but they had to rely on the lower order to see them home on 246-7 with four balls Lamb took her run total in the competition to 577 by making 82 for second-placed Lancashire as they beat Durham by 35 runs, with Sophie Morris claiming of the table Essex came up just short against Surrey at Chelmsford, losing by 14 runs despite a brilliant 73 not out from just 46 balls by Jo Gardner as they chased a target of games were the final ones for all six teams until the tier one competition resumes on 24 July. Once again, Lamb was the star performer with the bat for Lancashire as she passed 50 for the fourth game in a row before being bowled by spinner Katie Levick in the 30th over at Turner and Mady Villiers took three wickets each as the Red Rose were bowled out for 239 and despite losing Emma Marlow to the fourth ball of their reply, Suzi Bates and captain Hollie Armitage laid a solid base for their put on 74 before Armitage was caught off Grace Potts for 47, but Bess Heath (45) helped Bates add 65 before the innings went into was caught off Mahika Gaur and Morris bowled Bates for 63 with one that kept a little low to leave Durham on 170-6 and she and Kate Cross worked their way through the tail as the visitors were all out for 204 at the start of the 45th briefly looked like the win might take them to the top as Hampshire's chase against Warwickshire lost momentum following the loss of Knott and score of 243-7 was built on a stand of 97 between Abi Freeborn and Charis Pavely, who came together with the score on scored 55 before being stumped off Adams' off-spin, but Freeborn stayed to the end, hitting 12 fours in her 94 not lost both openers with 43 on the board but Australian Knott struck 12 boundaries, supported by the patient Adams, before she was caught off Georgia Davis, top edging a followed, bowled by Hannah Baker, and they needed 41 from the final seven more wickets fell but Mary Taylor's unbeaten 21 off 18 balls got them over the line - and both Hampshire and Lancashire now have six wins from eight games. Essex - with only one win from their previous seven games - had Surrey in trouble on 117-6 but England's Ryana MacDonald-Gay and Kalea Moore pushed the visitors towards a score of 259-9 with both reaching their first 50s of the did so from 60 balls before she was caught by Gardner off Eva Gray - who took 5-52 - for 66 and MacDonald-Gay followed two overs later for chances suffered a major setback when skipper Grace Scrivens was run out by Emma Jones' direct hit for 15 but Ariana Dowse (44) and Sophia Smale (42) made good contributions to keep them in the was Gardner, though, who provided the batting highlight, hitting six sixes and two fours - despite Dani Gregory claiming she ran out of partners as MacDonald-Gay produced a crucial three-wicket burst, including those of Kate Coppack and Abtaha Maqsood at the start of the 47th over to end the match. Tuesday fixture Loughborough: The Blaze v Somerset (10:30 BST start)
BBC News
17-05-2025
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Lancashire Thunder dump Glamorgan out of cup
T20 County Cup, BreconLancashire Thunder 167-4 (20 overs): E Jones 60, Lamb 52Glamorgan 86 (17.1 overs): Burke 49*; Johnson 3-2Lancashire Thunder won by 81 runs Lancashire Thunder ended Glamorgan's progress in the T20 County Cup with a convincing 81-run victory in Brecon, as the Tier One visitors showed the difference between the fully professional level and Tier chose to bat first with Emma Lamb hitting 52 off 36 balls and Eve Jones 60 off 46, the pair opening up with a stand of batter Seren Smale was 23 not out as England's Sophie Ecclestone chipped in with a cameo of 17 off nine in their early wickets for Grace Johnson (3-2) stifled Glamorgan's chances, with Surrey loanee Emily Burke (49 not out) top-scoring in the modest home total of hit four fours and two sixes, facing just 45 balls, but her last two partners were run out to leave her stranded one short of the Jeanes' brief early flurry earned her 17 from seven balls as the only other player to reach double figures, while Ecclestone also showed her international class with one for 13 in four Jackson, 17, was among the Glamorgan wicket-takers on her own school's ground at Christ College.
BBC News
11-05-2025
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Women's One-Day Cup - Hants beat Essex to top table
Lancashire completed a Metro Bank Women's One-Day Cup double over leaders The Blaze at Emirates Old win means Hampshire take over top spot in the table after Georgia Adams' century helped them beat Essex, while there were also wins for Durham and Potts' 4-37 led an excellent bowling effort by the Lancashire attack on a slow wicket that restricted the visitors to a below-par 222 all out from 48.2 overs, with half centuries by England wicketkeeper Amy Jones and Ella Lamb, the leading run scorer in the competition, boosted her chances of gaining international selection with an excellent 74 in front of the watching England head coach Charlotte Edwards, but three wickets from The Blaze skipper Kirstie Gordon threatened to swing the game the way of the visitors with Lancashire 155-6 after 32 took a vital partnership of 71 runs in 15.2 overs between captain Ellie Threlkeld and England all-rounder Kate Cross for the seventh wicket to take Lancashire to a four-wicket victory with 16 balls to Smith posted a superb hundred to steer Surrey to a convincing 101-run win over Somerset on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in by example, Surrey's captain scored 110 from 103 balls, striking 15 fours and one six as the visitors made 306-7 in a contest reduced by rain to 44 overs a Dunkley raised an attractive 79 from 81 balls and Danni Wyatt-Hodge contributed 44 including eight fours, while Australian spinner Amanda-Jade Wellington returned figures of a revised target of 317, Somerset came up short in the face of accurate bowling and sharp fielding, being dismissed for 215 in 40.5 overs. Ton-up captains Adams won the battle of century-making captains as Hampshire beat Essex by 17 unbeaten 110, with assistance from Rhianna Southby's 61, helped Hampshire to a healthy skipper Grace Scrivens replied with a classy 101, her second ton in successive innings, to put herself firmly in the frame for England left-arm spinner Linsey Smith took 4-33 to give Hampshire their fourth victory in six matches to remain amongst the pacesetters, while Essex remain rooted to the bottom of the excellent all-round performance from Mady Villiers led Durham to a three-wicket win over Warwickshire at bowlers restricted Warwickshire throughout their innings with regular wickets from the likes of Sophia Turner and Villiers, but a late flurry of runs from half-centurion Charis Pavely helped them to a competitive total of hosts got off to a great start in reply, with the brilliant Suzie Bates combining well with skipper Hollie Armitage for a partnership worth 105. However, some quick wickets for Warwickshire unsettled the home side until Villiers' maiden List A fifty for Durham secured her side a first win since the opening day.
