{"id":26723,"date":"2025-07-28T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26723\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T05:14:08","slug":"surrey-takes-womens-t20-blast-as-grace-harriss-63-helps-win-title-over-bears-and-sister-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/26723\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey takes Women’s T20 Blast as Grace Harris’s 63 helps win title over Bears and sister Laura"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grace Harris has won a battle of the siblings, as her Surrey side beat the Warwickshire team of her sister, Laura, in the final of the Women’s T20 Blast competition in England.<\/p>\n

The Australian pair both produced big-hitting knocks for their respective teams, but it was Grace’s unbeaten 63 off 33 balls that helped Surrey become the inaugural women’s champions, as they chased down a target of 154 in the 17th over.<\/p>\n

Grace Harris was the dominant performer in the final, with a brilliant innings that was 32 runs more than anyone else in the match.<\/p>\n

The Queenslander came out to bat in the seventh over, with her team behind the run-rate at 3-42.<\/p>\n

But the right-hander proceeded to flay the attack to all parts of the ground, changing the momentum of the game.<\/p>\n

She hit seven fours and two big sixes as none of the bowlers could slow her down.<\/p>\n

Do you have a story idea about women in sport?<\/p>\n

Email us abcsport5050@your.abc.net.au<\/a><\/p>\n

Harris saw her team home with help from Sophia Dunkley (23 off 13) and Kira Chathli (16 off 9) \u2014 the latter scoring the winning runs with a clip off her legs for four.<\/p>\n

Loading Instagram content<\/p>\n

Earlier, the Warwickshire Bears had got off to a rough start, losing both openers with the first two overs.<\/p>\n

When Laura Harris came to the crease in the 11th over, the Bears had recovered to be 5-83 before immediately losing Amu Surenkumar to make it 6-83.<\/p>\n

But Harris produced a brilliant cameo of 25 off 11 balls, including three four and two sixes.<\/p>\n

She was caught off the bowling of Danielle Gregory at the start of the 15th over, by which time Warwickshire were 8-115. They finished the innings with 9-153 off their full 20 overs.<\/p>\n

“I was a bit nervous \u2026 you want her [Laura] to do well but you still want to win,” Grace Harris told cricket.com.au after the match.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy she got out when she did, I was a bit nervous \u2014 it could have been a 180 chase if she hung on there and she had a few damaging innings from that position earlier in the comp.<\/p>\n

“It’s fantastic that we made sure we stayed with that run chase regardless of wickets lost [and] our bowlers did really well to set up that game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grace Harris has won a battle of the siblings, as her Surrey side beat the Warwickshire team of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,81,740,2649,25997,25999,26000,588,85,25996,25998,25995],"class_list":{"0":"post-26723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-final","13":"tag-grace-harris","14":"tag-laura-harris","15":"tag-sisters","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-surrey","19":"tag-warwickshire","20":"tag-womens-t20-blast"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723","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=26723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}