Freya Davies (2-15) and Bex Tyson (2-20) starred with the ball for Hampshire as Essex fell short of a target of 102, finishing on 97-6.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Maia Bouchier and Freya Kemp both made 31 in what looked an under par score of 101-7, Esmae MacGregor the pick of the home attack with 2-17.<\/p>\n
In reply, Sophie Munro top-scored with an unbeaten 28 but Hampshire eked out a narrow win to all but mathematically assure their semi-final spot.<\/p>\n
At Emirates Old Trafford, an impressive bowling display set Somerset up for victory against second-placed Lancashire.<\/p>\n
They restricted their hosts to 169-9 from 44 overs and, after a 90-minute rain delay, chased a revised 164 from the same allocation inside 35 for a bonus point.<\/p>\n
Ellie Anderson’s seam accounted for three wickets and Amanda-Jade Wellington’s leg-spin two before Niamh Holland and unbeaten Gibson contributed 44 apiece.<\/p>\n
Wellington also added a steadying 25 not out to cap her impressive day.<\/p>\n
Inserted Lancashire had been put under early pressure at 69-7 inside 24 overs before England seamer Kate Cross’ composed 51 off 58 balls led a fightback which ultimately failed to prevent defeat.<\/p>\n
It was a frustrating day in Birmingham for Warwickshire and Durham, who both needed maximum points to boost their slim Finals Day chances, only for rain to prevent any play at all.<\/p>\n
At Trent Bridge, meanwhile, The Blaze, in third, and fourth-placed Surrey had to settle for two points each in their quest for semi-final places.<\/p>\n
Surrey had the hosts in trouble as Alexa Stonehouse took 2-23 but the weather intervened to preclude further play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freya Davies (2-15) and Bex Tyson (2-20) starred with the ball for Hampshire as Essex fell short of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-119281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}