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Vitality Blast Women 2025 Match 16, 17 – Warwickshire vs Lancashire; Surrey vs Durham Cricket Match Predictions – June 8
Warwickshire Women vs Lancashire Women, Vitality Blast Women
Lancashire Thunder, 162 for seven, beat Warwickshire, 157 for nine, by five runs.
Lancashire Thunder opened the Women’s Vitality Blast table right up with a five-run victory over Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
Eleanor Threlkeld’s side shrugged off a slow start with the bat to reach 162 for seven, much of it compiled in heavy drizzle. That was a strong recovery from 31 for four, led by Ailsa Lister 39 (26) and Tara Norris (33 not out, 24) against an accurate Warwickshire attack in which all six members took wickets,
The home side replied with 157 for nine. Davina Perrin provided a fiery start with 34 (23) and Natasha Wraith late power with 58 not out (34) but Lancashire closed the game out as Norris completed her excellent all-round day with three for 24.
Put in, Lancashire soon lost Emma Lamb, off-stump flattened by Issy Wong, and then lurched from 29 for one to 31 for four in nine balls. Seren Smale was beautifully stumped behind her legs by Natasha Wraith, Fi Morris sliced her second ball, from Charis Pavely, to backward point and Threlkeld top-edged her third to short third to supply Hannah Hardwick’s first Blast wicket.
The support that opener Tilly Kesteven needed finally came from Lister. They rebuilt with a stand of 69 from 53 balls before falling in successive overs. Lister missed with a slog-sweep at Hannah Baker and was lbw. When Millie Taylor turned one through Kesteven (29, 37) to bowl her, the first six wickets had fallen to different bowlers.
The prospect of all ten falling to different bowlers disappeared when Alana King’s punchy counter-attack (21, 13) ended with a smart catch by Perrin at deep mid-wicket off Taylor. The recovery continued as Norris struck Pavely for a glorious six over long off in an innings turned the target into tricky.
Perrin gave Warwickshire’s reply a dynamic start with four fours and a six but then had her leg-stump struck by Grace Johnson. Sterre Kalis chipped Norris to mid off and Sophie Morris then struck two huge blows in three balls. Abi Freeborn fell lbw, reverse-sweeping and Laura Harris, 132 from 55 balls behind her from her first two games at Edgbaston, skied a catch back to the bowler.
Pavely’s breezy 27 (20) ended when she lifted Johnson to long off. Wong was bowled trying to cut Norris, leaving Warwickshire needing 61 from six overs with six wickets down. Wraith responded with some spectacular hitting on the way to a 29-ball half-century which sent her side into the last over needing 14 but Grace Potts, back on her former home ground, delivered it for just eight.
Surrey Women vs Durham Women, Vitality Blast Women
Surrey 143-1 beat Durham 141-5 by nine wickets
Report by ECB Reporters’ Network
Durham won the toss and elected to bat.
Danni Wyatt-Hodge’s blistering 26-ball half-century set Surrey on their way to a thumping nine-wicket win over Durham at the Oval.
The England opener struck 2 6s and 11 4s in her 74 (36), sharing a stand of 94 for the first wicket with skipper Bryony Smith (44 from 28) as the hosts chased down a target of 142 with 43 balls to spare to return to the top of the table.
The onslaught came after Durham fought back from 29-3 to total 141-5, Holie Armitage anchoring the effort with 50 (49) while Bess Heath (27 from 18) and Mia Rogers (25 from 20) played eye-catching cameos.
There were two wickets apiece for Ryana MacDonald-Gay (2-16) and Tash Farrant (2-25).
Durham were soon in trouble, MacDonald-Gay uprooting Suzie Bates’ middle stump after the New Zealand international gave her the charge.
MacDonald-Gay was at it again in her next over, spreadeagling Mady Villiers’s stumps and when Emma Marlow chipped one from Tash Farrant into the hands of Paige Scholfield, the visitors were 29-3.
Durham fought back with Armitage playing the anchor role and Heath and Rogers providing the impetus. Heath twice drove powerfully over cover and then mid-off for four in racing to 27 before Bryony Smith clung on to a good catch at mid-off to cut her charge short.
Rogers should have been stumped on 12 off the bowling of Dani Gregory, but celebrated the reprieve with some good straight hitting until she too didn’t get enough onto another drive, Scholfield again showing safe hands on the boundary.
Armitage ran hard throughout and finally found the fence twice late on while Katherine Fraser hit the last ball of the innings for six to set the target.
Smith was quick to take up the challenge clubbing Grace Thompson to the fence four times in her opening over and when spinner Katie Levick came on for the third over she was driven and pulled with equal disdain by the Surrey skipper.
Wyatt-Hodge caught the mood, cutting and driving Trudy Johnson to the fence to raise the 50-partnership in 22 balls.
Things got worse for Durham when Phoebe Turner dropped Smith a mid-off on 34, but brilliant fielding on the fence at backward square saved a six from the next ball, the England all-rounder parrying the ball back into play and keeping the hosts down to one.
Wyatt Hodge produced the first six, hammering Levick over the mid-wicket rope, but with the hundred partnership in sight Smith pulled one from Turner into the hands of Villiers to end the stand at 94.
Wyatt-Hodge though continued to brutalize the Durham bowling adding a second straight six to her boundary count as Surrey galloped home.
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