The Metro Bank One Day Cup Women’s Division I continues on May 14 with multiple fixtures that could shape the standings.
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Essex Women vs Durham Women, Match 26, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I
Mady Villiers and Mia Rogers shared a stand of 98 as Durham made it back-to back wins in the Metro Bank One-day Cup women’s competition with a six-wicket victory over hosts Essex.
Rogers led the charge with an unbeaten 66, while Villiers, back on what was her home ground for more than a decade until her move north over the winter made 46 as the visitors recovered from 55-3 to win with 70 balls to spare
Earlier, a catastrophic runout sparked a collapse by the hosts in which they lost seven wickets for 53 runs in 81 balls, Villiers taking 3-28, while Ariana Dowse was left stranded on 43 not out.
Lissy Macleod was dropped on two, but that scare aside Essex began well after being sent in. Macleod lofted Grace Thompson back over her head for six, while in-form skipper Grace Scriven unfurled a couple of square cuts as the openers posted a 50-stand in 49 balls.
Thompson (2-28) switched ends to break the partnership with the last ball of the powerplay, Macleod strangled down the leg side. The same combination accounted for Scrivens soon afterwards, the host’s skipper wafting at a wide one outside off stump.
Dowse and Sophia Smale steadied matters, the latter driving Villiers for four before sweeping Susie Bates to the legside boundary as the pair added 51 in 12 overs
Smale perished tentatively paddling one from Villiers around the corner to backward square but Essex still looked handily placed at 120-3 at halfway.
Then came the runout, confusion over a second leaving both batters mid-pitch, Amara Carr unable to turn and beat Villiers’s throw. It was the catalyst for the collapse, in-form Phoebe Turner taking two in an over, including Jo Gardner for a second-ball duck.
Dowse stood firm to remain unbeaten on 43, but spin twins Villiers and Katy Levick (2-28), proved too much for the home side’s tail.
Needing early wickets Essex made a dream start, New Zealand international Suzie Bates edging a swinging ball from the excellent Eva Gray (1-16 from 7) to a diving Carr. If that was a good ball, Esmae MacGregor produced a beauty to befuddle skipper Hollie Armitage and clip the top of off.
Emma Marlow’s response to adversity was to plunder three boundaries from MacGregor’s next over in racing to 30, but comical runouts were catching and a mix up saw her sent back by Villiers, the square leg umpire adjudging her short of her ground, though replays suggested the batter had made it home.
Villiers and Rogers managed the rebuild, both driving Smale for four, while the former clubbed one from Abtaha Maqsood back over her head to raise the 50 partnership.
Villiers fell just short of 50 top edging an attempted pull to Gray at mid-on, but Rogers completed her half century with the help of six fours.
Durham batter Mia Rogers who made 66 not out said: “That was a very fun day out. To get two wins in a row and keep the momentum going.
“We took a few learning from the Warwickshire win, taking ownership of the game at the end to finish it off being one of them.
“The run-rate needed when Mady came in was quite low, so the talk was about keeping it really simple. Mady is a great person to bat with very experienced. We had played here together previously, so it was satisfying to come back together and do that.
“I’m feeling confident with my form. It was a bit streaky towards the end, but that’s cricket. Hopefully I’ll continue in this manner.
Essex batter Ariana Dowse said: “We started well with the bat, the openers went out and got a good partnership going and when Sophia and I came together it was going in the right direction.
“I need to apologise to Amara (Carr) for the runout. That was a bit of a mind blank by me. I decided to come and then didn’t.
“I was trying to balance a bit of risk and reward (batting with the tail) and that is a challenge when partners at the end keep going.
“Mady bowled very consistently stump to stump which was hard to get away, and then she went out there and anchored their innings.
“We hoping for that kind of start with the ball and we were buzzing to get both those big names out (Bates and Armitage) but they stayed in and accumulated and we just didn’t have enough runs to defend.”
Surrey Women vs The Blaze, Match 27, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I
The Blaze 346 for 9. Surrey 346-9. Match tied. 2 points each.
A stunning finish at Beckenham saw Surrey tie with The Blaze in the Metro Bank Cup, after Dani Gregory scrambled a single off the last ball.
Georgia Elwiss, who top-scored with 82 and took 3 for 35, looked to have handed the visitors victory but a superb 125 by Alice Capsey dragged Surrey back from the brink.
When Capsey was out, Surrey’s last wicket duo of Alexa Stonehouse and Gregory needed 40 from 29 balls. They got the target down to nine off the last over and two off the last ball, but with the number 11 Gregory on strike they could only manage one, leaving both sides unsure if they should laugh or weep.
The visitors had dominated after being put in, with Amy Jones hitting 80 and Kathryn Bryce 56. Dani Gregory had Surrey’s best figures with three for 66.
Surrey got Tammy Beaumont for just 8, when she pulled Alexa Stonehouse straight to Ryana MacDonald Gay at backward square, they struggled to contain Jones and Kathryn Bryce.
They put on 113 for the second wicket and Jones looked poised for a century until Gregory had her caught behind.
Kathryn Bryce also looked well set until she missed a straight one from MacDonald-Gay and was bowled middle stump.
Sarah Bryce had made 34 when she edged Alexa Stonehouse and Chathli took a sharp one-handed catch.
Gregory slowed The Blaze’s progress by bowling both Maddy Green and Ella Claridge in successive overs for 21 and seven respectively, but Elwiss and Kirstie Gordon responded with a stand worth 63 that was only broken when the latter was run out by Paige Scholfield for 26.
Davidson-Richards took two wickets in as many balls in the final over, with Scholfield snaring Elwiss on theboundary and MacDonald-Gay reeling in Cassidy McCarthy at mid-off, but Grace Ballinger just avoided getting caught and bowled off the hat-trick ball and Groves finished with a flourish, hitting an unbeaten 10 from five, including a six over mid-wicket.
At halfway the WASP estimated Surrey’s chances at four percent, which suggested the software had never seen a Beckenham wicket before.
Sophia Dunkley and Wyatt-Hodge put on 57 for the opening wicket, but the former was caught behind for 20 off McCarthy.
Capsey was on six when she was dropped by Elwiss on the midwicket boundary off Kathryn Bryce, but Bryce struck in the same over to get Wyatt-Hodge for 43, caught at backward square by Groves.
Scholfield went on the attack, smashing Gordon back over her head for six, then sweeping her for another maximum over cow corner, but she went for 37 of 31 balls when she miscued Elwiss and Kathryn Bryce took a diving catch at deep midwicket.
Davidson-Richards made a single, smashed a Groves delivery into her own foot, hobbled back to the crease and was caught and bowled off the next ball.
Elwiss then got Chathli for five, caught on the boundary by Sarah Bryce and Phoebe Franklin for 17 after Groves took a steepling catch at backward square.
Moore went for 10, caught by Gordon off McCarthy but Capsey made her maiden List A century by sweeping Gordon for four after hitting the previous delivery for six. She hit the next ball for another six. Elwiss at dropped Capsey again at extra cover off Ballinger, but she held on to catch MacDonald-Gay for 27 off the next ball and when Capsey skied Ballinger to Gordon the game seemed up. Yet Stonehouse still managed to hit sixes off Ballinger and Kathryn Bryce to leave Surrey needing nine from the last over.
Stonehouse hit Ballinger’s first ball for four, then took a single. The third was a dot, the fourth and fifth singles, leaving Gregory on strike. She straight drove Ballinger who couldn’t break the wicket before the single was completed, leaving the scores tied.
Surrey’s Alice Capsey said: “Obviously we would have liked to have got over the line. I guess the draw keeps it interesting, that’s nearly 700 runs in one day so that’s a pretty good game of cricket I’d say.
“It’s nice to get the milestone (her highest score). I’ve been with Surrey for a long part of my career so it was nice to get with the Three Feathers on my chest. I felt in real nice touch this season and I’ve been able to get a few starts but just not been able to make that big contribution, so with a big run chase today it was the perfect opportunity to bat and we all know that at Beckenham350 is about par these days.
“Especially chasing it’s so hard to defend here so I felt the longer I batted, I had brilliant people at the other end. Ryana MacDoand-Gay and Alexa Stonehouse were so clear about what they wanted to achieve and that’s just a testament to the hard work they’ve put in over the winter.”
(On higher scores) “The weather definitely has definitely helped and especially here it’s been flatter so there hasn’t been a lot in it for the bowlers but I think touching on having the county system, the girls being in one place, training all winter and having it alongside the men, having those dual path ways really helps.. This is just the start of the county stuff, I can’t wait to see where it is in two or three years time. There’s also an element to it becoming more professional each year and the skill level getting higher and higher. We’ve seen tht with the Hundred and it’s rally nice to see how close the games are and how much skill is on show.
“You don’t really look at that (WASP). I guess it’s dictated by numbers and I understand that but it probably doesn’t know the Beckenham pitch is an an M1 and nothing really happens for the bowlers with the tiny boundaries.”
The Blaze’s Amy Jones said: “Games like that don’t happen very often. When you step back you can appreciate it for the game that it was, it was very entertaining, just runs galore. It’s a brilliant pitch here at Beckenham but when you put runs on the board like that it does feel like a loss at the end I think, but there’ll be lots of learnings I’m sure.
“I think it’s quite natural to take a bit of a sigh of relief when someone like Capsey gets out on that many runs. The way she was striking it I thought that was an incredible innings so at that point I think it was only natural to relax a little. I think Tammy to be fair said it’s not over in the huddle so it was on our radars that there was a lot to do, but yeah Stonehouse at the end as well, that was a crucial innings, so credit to them it was a brilliant performance from them.
“Charlotte Edwards has been quite open about how she values county cricket and the contracted players have had seven games to really settle in with our counties. I think it puts a bit more value on it. (The domestic game).”
“I was happy with how I batted but obviously you don’t want to get out. I enjoyed it while I was out there and I thought Georgia was brilliant at the end. We knew we needed a high total and it was proven in the end there.
(On Capsey)
“It was brilliant, I think that’s right up there with one of the best 50 over innings I’ve seen. She was confident to take on the boundary fielders, with some of the cleanest striking and I thought her tempo was brilliant too. She respected the good balls and kept it ticking with her partner at the other end.”
Warwickshire Women vs Lancashire Women, Match 28, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I
Lancashire, 276 for 8, beat Warwickshire, 175, by 101 runs
Lancashire recorded a third successive win by hammering Warwickshire by 101 runs in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup women’s competition at Edgbaston.
The visitors’ total of 276 for eight was built by a strong start and finish. Emma Lamb (88 from 84 balls) and Katie Mack (57, 86) laid a solid platform and, after a wobble induced by spinner Georgia Davis (three for 45), Sophie Ecclestone (50, 49) led a second wave which took the total from solid to imposing.
Warwickshire then succumbed for 175 all out (Katie George 35, 38), as Fi Morris took out numbers two, three and four in 12 balls on her way to five for 48 to sentence the home side to a third successive defeat.
After choosing to bat, Lancashire took an early hit when Eve Jones, back at the ground when she scored so many runs as a home player, fell to the eighth ball, lbw to an inswinger yorker from George.
Lamb and Mack responded assertively with a stand of 116 in 23 overs. They reached their half-centuries from 50 and 80 balls respectively before the innings faltered in the face of spin.
Warwickshire captain Davis struck in her first over when Mack, deceived by flight, was stumped by wicketkeeper Abi Freeborn. Seren Smale was brilliantly caught at slip by George off Hannah Baker. Davis held a stinging return catch from Fi Morris and drew a fatal outside edge from Ailsa Lister.
When Lamb edged a pull at Issy Wong to Freeborn, five wickets had fallen for 49 runs in ten overs and, at 168 for six, Lancashire needed shoring up. Experienced pair Ecclestone and Eleanor Threlkeld (37, 44) provided the necessary ballast and then impetus with a stand of 91 from 82 balls and, after Ecclestone heaved Em Arlott to long on, Katie Cross socked Wong into the Hollies Stand to carry on the revival.
With Freeborn, injured while wicketkeeping, unable to open, Warwickshire sent in Charis Pavely with Sterre Kalis but the makeshift opened was first to go when she played on to Cross.
Morris then torpedoed the top order with three wickets in 12 balls. Kalis and Davina Perrin sent up catches to mid off and mid on respectively and Natasha Wraith was stumped through a reckless slog.
Bethan Ellis got a reverse sweep at Ecclestone all wrong and gave wicketkeeper Threlkeld the simplest of catches. Arlott embarked on a crazy second run and was only just past halfway when former team mate Grace Potts’ throw arrived.
Morris returned to bowl George with a lovely ball and complete her five-for when Freeborn holed out to deep mid-wicket. It was an all-round performance from Lancashire which oozed conviction and emphatically staked their claim as contenders for the inaugural County Championship title this season.
Warwickshire captain Georgia Davis said:
“That was quite disappointing. We probably let them get a few too many on the board and then we weren’t good enough with the bat either.
“They have got loads of experience in their side and we didn’t counter that well enough today. Lamby batted really well at the top and then Eccles kind of took the game away from us in the middle. We didn’t pull them back enough and then, with the bat, we were a bit slow in the powerplay and never really got going.
“We know how we want to play our cricket and if we stick to that and do things right then wins will come. We started the season quite well but we have lost a bit of momentum so I think we just need to stick to the way we play and trust it and back it.
“Abi Freeborn will be fine. It wasn’t a finger injury, she just got a little bug while we were fielding.”
Lancashire all-rounder Fi Morris said:
“It was a really good all-round performance by the ream. I thought par on that pitch was 230 so we did really well to get up to 280. It was a great partnership between Emma and Katie and then Sophie and Eleanor did brilliantly to get us up to a really good score.
“I felt good with the ball today. It was a bit of a used wicket and started to spin quite big towards the end. Our opening bowlers were brilliant, they put the pressure on, and after that we just needed to bowl straight because their batters needed to take risks.
“We’re five wins from seven now so we’re really happy with the start and to be among the leaders. We’ve bowled and batted really well at times and today it all came together in a great team performance.”
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