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Metro Bank One Day Cup Women’s Division 1 2025 – Match 45 – 48 – Cricket Match Predictions: September 7th
Durham Women vs Hampshire Women, Match 45, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I
Result: Durham Women (224-9) lost to Hampshire Women (174-1) by nine wickets (Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method – revised target of 171 runs in 37 overs)
Leaders Hampshire Women clinched a semi-final berth in the Metro Bank One Day Cup after a convincing nine-wicket victory with 13.2 overs to spare against Durham Women at the Banks Homes Riverside.
The defeat leaves Durham in fifth place with two rounds to play, one point behind fourth-placed Surrey with the two sides meeting in the final group match at Chester-le-Street next Saturday.
Initially chasing a target of 225, Hampshire opening pair of Maia Bouchier and Rhianna Southby produced an attacking start that saw 74 runs arrive from the ten over powerplay and they had raced along with some fine strokeplay to reach 144-0 from 19 overs when rain took 13 overs out of the game. A revised DLS target of 171 in 37 overs made little difference, and despite the loss of Southby for 58, Bouchier (92 not out) and Freya Kemp (9 not out) quickly scored the 27 needed to clinch an impressive victory.
Earlier, a fighting 88 by captain Hollie Armitage had given Durham some hope with the hosts posting 224-9 after a poor start. Armitage came to the crease in the eighth over and batted through to the last, hitting nine fours, but found partnerships difficult to come by until Grace Thompson finally provided great support for the eighth wicket. The pair added 72 to rescue Durham from a perilous 144-7 with 18-year-old Thompson contributing a List A career-best 39.
Georgia Adams with 3-41 led an excellent bowling effort by the visitors with Freya Davies impressive with 2-30 along with Bex Tyson (2-40).
Southby and Bouchier made a strong start to the Hampshire run chase, the pair attacking effectively to race to their fifty partnership from just 41 balls in increasingly gloomy overhead conditions that required the use of the floodlights.
Bouchier was the first to reach her half century – her fifth in this season’s competition – from 47 balls hitting 8 fours, with the century partnership arriving moments later from only 86 balls as Durham struggled to exert any control with the ball.
Southby hit the first six of the game on her way to a 45-ball fifty that also included 8 fours as the Hampshire openers raced along at nearly eight runs per over to put the outcome in little doubt.
It was an impressive display, with Bouchier not out on 76 from 67 balls and Southby unbeaten on 56 from 50 balls when rain stopped play at 3.30pm with Hampshire 144-0 after 19 overs.
After an 80 minutes delay with thirteen overs lost, the target was reduced to 171 from 37 overs and Durham finally made a breakthrough when Thompson bowled Southby for 58 to end a fine 152-run partnership.
Bouchier and Kemp then eased their way to 174-1 in the 24th over to clinch the win.
After opting to bat, Durham lost both opening batters for 38 runs, Mia Rogers run out for 6 and Emma Marlow caught at cover for 12 during an impressive five over spell of 1-9 by Davies.
Armitage and Mady Villiers had begun to fashion a recovery with a steady partnership of 30 before Villers on 19 was tempted into a drive off left arm spinner Tyson that ended up in the hands of Mary Taylor at mid-on.
That also proved to be the fate of Emily Windsor when she picked out Maia Bouchier off Adams for 13 who then had Bess Heath caught behind three balls later to leave Durham struggling on 89-5 in the 22nd over.
It left a lot resting on the shoulders Armitage, and she responded with a determined innings, passing fifty off 65-balls for the fifth time while becoming the second batter to pass 500 runs in the competition this season.
But Durham continued to lose wickets at the other end. Having taken 1-14 from her first six over spell, Tyson returned to bowl Phoebe Turner around her legs for 18 while Adams picked up her third wicket when trapping Katherine Fraser lbw sweeping for 4.
An excellent innings by Thompson finally lent Armitage the support needed over the final 15 overs, the pair adding 72 off 86 balls – easily the highest partnership of the innings – with Armitage’s excellent effort ending in the final over as Durham posted a far better total than had looked likely earlier, but one the visitors comfortably hauled in.
Somerset Women vs The Blaze, Match 46, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I
Sisters Kathryn and Sarah Bryce scored half centuries to guide The Blaze to a 44-run bonus point victory over Somerset on the Duckworth/Lewis/Stern Method in a rain-shortened Metro Bank One Day Cup match at Taunton Vale Sports Ground.
Sarah Bryce top-scored with 68 from 54 balls, hit 12 fours and shared in an opening stand of 76 inside 10 overs with Georgie Boyce as The Blaze posted 252-6 in a contest reduced to 33 overs-a-side. Kathryn Bryce then made 63 not out from 60 balls with eight fours, staging a partnership of 72 with Orla Prendergast, who weighed in with a forthright 46. Charlie Dean did her best to keep Somerset in contention, returning figures of 3-50 from seven overs.
Chasing a revised target of 214 in 26 overs, Somerset never recovered from the wreckage of 9-4, Cassidy McCarthy taking three wickets in a devastating eight-ball burst that all but settled the outcome during the powerplay. Amanda-Jade Wellington raised a defiant 28-ball 53 and Fran Wilson hit 33, but McCarthy finished with 3-12 as the home side were bowled out for 169 in 22.2 overs.
Victory cemented The Blaze’s position in the top three and materially improved their prospects of making the final stages of the 50-over competition, but Somerset are now out of contention with two games remaining.
Making the most of short boundaries and a quick outfield, Boyce and Sarah Bryce accrued 11 boundaries on their way to 61 without loss from a seven-over powerplay after being put in on a drying surface. When the seamers struggled to contain the flow of runs, Somerset turned to spinners Dean and Wellington in an attempt to turn the tide.
England international Dean struck in her second over, persuading Boyce to drive to mid-off and depart for a run-a-ball 31 with the score 76-1 in the 10th over. But there was no dislodging Sarah Bryce, who went to an assured half century from 40 balls with 10 fours, the Blaze wicketkeeper-batter growing in stature all the time.
There was a sense of relief within Somerset ranks when off spinner Chloe Skelton bowled Bryce in the act of cutting in the18th, her dismissal providing the home side with much-needed respite. Thereafter, Prendergast and Kathryn Bryce proved adept at finding the gaps, these two combining clever placement and forceful running in staging a third wicket stand of 73 in eight overs.
Ireland international Prendergast seized on anything wide or short of a length, pulling Alex Griffiths for the first six of the innings and then driving Skelton for four as returning rain rendered control difficult for the bowlers. She had raised 46 off 31 balls and helped herself to 5 fours and a six when she skied a catch to backward point off the bowling of Wellington as The Blaze slipped to 195-3.
Somerset continued to fight back, Dean bowling the dangerous Georgia Elwiss and then pinning Ella Claridge lbw to further reduce their opponents to 212-5 in the 29th. But Kathryn Bryce continued to carry the fight to Somerset, raising her 50 via 52 balls with her sixth four and putting on 34 for the sixth wicket with Michaela Kirk, who contributed a useful 17 from nine deliveries.
A further downpour caused seven overs to be lost and, when Somerset resumed their innings, they were required to score a further 209 at 8.36 an over. Their task quickly became even more difficult, Bex Odgers pulling Cassidy McCarthy’s first ball to square leg and fellow opener Niamh Holland nicking a catch behind off the bowling of Grace Ballinger.
Generating pace and swing aplenty, McCarthy bowled Sophie Luff and Dani Gibson with successive deliveries, at which point she had taken three wickets in eight balls and the home side were deep in trouble on 9-4. Kirstie Gordon then had Dean held by Kirk on the mid-wicket boundary as Somerset slumped to 22-5.
Wilson and Wellington did their utmost to make a game of it thereafter, staging a face-saving alliance of 69 in 6.5 overs in the late-afternoon sunshine. Not afraid to play expansive strokes, these two raised a quickfire 50 from 33 balls in a blaze of boundaries, Wellington plundering five consecutive fours off the bowling of Prendergast to put the visitors on the back foot for the first time.
Elwiss accounted for Wilson, caught at short fine leg, but the defiant Wellington went on to post a rapid 50 from just 26 balls with 10 fours. She was run out by Kathryn Bryce soon afterwards, her dismissal signaling the end of meaningful West Country resistance.
Surrey Women vs Lancashire Women, Match 47, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I
Lancashire Women stayed on course for the Metro Bank Cup semi-finals with a four-wicket win over Surrey at Beckenham.
Grace Potts took three for 31 as Surrey were bowled out for 225, while Hannah Jones took two for 33 and was unlucky not to get two more.
Kalea Moore was dropped twice off her bowling and she cashed in to make a career-best List A score of 67, while Alexa Stonehouse was the next highest scorer with 48.
Seren Smale anchored the visitor’s reply with 67 not out, as they closed on 227 for six, with 24 balls remaining. Alexa Stonehouse was the pick of Surrey’s bowlers with three for 34.
Lancashire chose to bowl and quickly made inroads, reducing them to 60 for five. Ailsa Lister dropped Bryony Smith off Grace Potts when she was on 14 but two balls later Potts dismissed Smith with an outstanding one-handed return catch.
Kira Chathli then went for 17, driving Kate Cross straight to Smale.
Alice Capsey was run out by Fi Morris for five and Paige Scholfield was bowled by Hannah Jones for just a single.
Jones then had Alice Davidson-Richards caught for 20 by Cross at mid-off, after she’d initially dropped her drive, but Phoebe Franklin and Moore responded with the biggest partnership of the innings to that point, putting on 61 before the former cut Phoebe Graham to Emma Lamb and was out for 25. Morris then had Alice Monaghan caught behind for four.
Moore cut Jones for a single to reach 50 and she was on 53 when she heaved Jones to the midwicket boundary and was dropped over the rope by Lister.
In Jones’ final over Moore was put down again, this time on 67 and this time when Gaby Lewis missed a far more difficult chance at square leg.
This time she couldn’t profit as Moore was lbw to Lamb in the next over, the 42nd.
Stonehouse, who’d put on 55 with Moore, blasted a huge six off Cross but fell to Potts in the final over, holing out to Graham at mid-off and Potts then ended the innings one ball early when she had Danni Gregory caught, also by Graham, for 18.
Lancashire’s openers put on 74 for the opening wicket before Lewis tried to pull out of a hook shot and edged Monaghan behind for 39.
The visitors seemed to be coasting at 117 for one, when two quick wickets opened a window for Surrey. Lamb tried to reach for a Stonehouse delivery and was brilliantly caught by a diving Franklin at backward point and Morris lofted Stonehouse to Scholfield for six.
Ellie Threlkeld went to an even better catch by Smith, who almost pirouetted to take a one-handed grab off Moore, but she made a useful 21 and by then Lancashire only needed 47.
Smale eased past 50 by clipping Moore for four through mid-wicket.
The target was down to three when two wickets gave the scoreline some respectability: Lister skied Stonehouse to Scholfield and although she was dropped, she hit the next delivery straight to Smith for 23. Collins ramped Franklin to Tilly Corteen-Coleman for a duck, but this merely allowed Cross to hit Franklin back over her head for the winning boundary.
Lancashire’s Seren Smale said: “It was really good, that’s exactly how we want to play our cricket and I think everyone’s stood up today and did their bit and it was full team performance.
“This time of year the wickets have always got something in them and you’ve got to be a little bit wary but the decks are normally good here so you know it’s going to be ok.
We did what we wanted to do with the new ball and got them five down but normally cricket kicks you up the backside. We just stayed calm, didn’t panic and kept them to what we wanted to after all, that so we were quite happy.
“We always talk about someone being there at the end out of your top, lucky seven so for me, I’ve not had the best season and to do that today was really important. I just went out there and thought ‘I’m going to have a net, I’ve got loads of time.’ And that’s what I did, I’m really happy with what happened today.
“We wanted to get ourselves in the best position in the last two games, three games and we’ve done exactly that by winning today.”
Surrey’s Johann Myburgh said: “It was a disappointing result. Obviously we’ve just had a nice chat as a group and the good thing about this group is that we can be honest. We know we didn’t perform as we wanted to and then to scrap, to still try and extend the game as far as we did, that’s always nice to see, but ultimately we let ourselves down in probably all three departments.
“It wasn’t a typical Beckenham wicket, so we would have bowled first. We felt that the surface would have assisted the seam bowlers a little bit but this is cricket and we still think we’ve got a good enough side to cope with that and transfer pressure onto the opposition.
“Credit to Lancs, I thought they way they bowled up front did ask a lot of questions of our batters and transferred a lot of pressure on to our batting unit, so credit to them as much as we think there’s a couple of things we could have done to transfer that pressure back.
“We believed (at halfway.) To get to that score, ultimately through some crucial partnerships and that’s why I say when you’re not at your best all you can ask of a group of people and a team is to show a little bit of fight. To get to 225 we certainly showed that as a batting unit and to scrap all the way, even when they had a really good partnership up top, sometimes in those games you hope for a couple of wickets at the start of the innings and then you can get into the game but to stay in the game once again showed the players were fighting.
“Thee were some good catches but as a group we don’t feel we fielded as well as we can so something we’ll reflect on. Ultimately that cost us runs in the field when I thought a stages the bowlers got the balls in the right areas, but unfortunately today, for whatever reason, we couldn’t back it up in the field like we usually do. It’s something we’ve reflected on as a group, I certainly don’t think it’s anything to panic about and it’s certainly something we can put right for the next game
Warwickshire Women vs Essex Women, Match 48, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I
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