Live Cricket Streaming The Blaze Women vs Surrey Women with score updates, match stats and complete Metro Bank One Day Cup Women 2026 coverage.
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By Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Metro Bank One-Day Cup – Women: The Blaze, 166 for 5, beat Surrey, 164 all out, by five wickets.
The Blaze cemented their place at the top of the Metro Bank One-Day Cup table with a five-wicket victory over Surrey at Trent Bridge.
Kirstie Gordon’s side banked a solid victory from a low-scoring game after bowling Surrey out for just 164. Priyanaz Chatterji top-scored from number seven with 45 from 68 balls, but Gordon eviscerated the middle order with three wickets in seven balls on her way to three for 37.
The Blaze then hit trouble of their own at 61 for five but Georgia Elwiss (76 not out, 95) and Emma Jones (36 not out, 49) calmly steered them to victory with 93 balls overs to spare with an unbroken stand of 105.
Surrey’s defeat was their third in succession after starting the season with three wins. They badly need to reboot, but Blaze’s momentum continues to grow after a fourth consecutive win, and fifth out of six games.
Put in on a grey morning with the floodlights shining brightly, Surrey started briskly, 19 from three overs, but then hit terminal decline. Paige Scholfield missed a drive at Charley Phillips and was bowled off-stump. Alice Monaghan lifted a pull at Lucy Higham and was slickly caught by Tammy Beaumont at square leg.
Gordon then left Surrey reeling with three quickfire wickets. Bryony Smith top-edged to deep square leg and Alice Davidson-Richards and Jemima Spice were bowled through the gate and past a crooked bat respectively.
From 57 for five, Surrey had little option to retrench. Kira Chathli (28, 58) and Chatterji added a watchful 36 before the former copped a tough lbw decision and fell to Josie Groves. Less arguable was the lbw call against Aylish Cranston (20, 31) when she missed a sweep at Higham.
Chatterji, having hit just two fours in a diligent innings that at least gave her side something to bowl at, was caught at long on off Kathryn Bryce who then had Danielle Gregory caught at point. When Tilly Corteen-Coleman was yorked by Phillips, Surrey’s innings ended with 42 balls unused.
Surrey’s bowlers responded impressively with three wickets in the first five overs. Corteen-Coleman ousted Beaumont, caught at slip, and Maitlin Brown bowled Kathryn Bryce and Amy Jones to leave The Blaze 19 for three. Elwiss and Sarah Bryce (29, 39) added 42 but Monaghan powered Surrey back into the match by hitting the off-stumps of Bryce and Ella Claridge with successive balls. Where Surrey had been 57 for five, The Blaze were now 61 for five.
Elwiss and Emma Jones were unruffled. Elwiss hooked Brown for six to bring up the 100 and the sixth-wicket pair added 50 from 75 balls. Elwiss reached her half-century from 72 balls and well though Surrey bowled, their batters’ under-performance had left them too much to do as the sixth-wicket pair closed out an ultimately comfortable victory.
The Blaze batter Georgia Elwiss said: “We’ve had a really busy period over the last few games. We’ve had a lot of games over a short space of time with a lot of moving parts, people coming in and out of the side, so I am really proud of the group. The bowlers in particular have been absolutely outstanding over the last couple of games and really set the games up for us.
“It was a little bit of a tricky chase today with early wickets falling, but we knew that one good partnership could do it, and we have got such depth in our batting line-up that we have a lot of confidence in everybody.
“It was a potentially awkward target but it was a question of backing our strengths and trusting our game and going for it. They bowled really well up top, their key bowlers took wickets, and made it difficult for us. But the message to everyone in our squad is to play your own game and play to your strengths and it was great to see Emma Jones doing that at the end.”
Surrey captain Kira Chathli said: “We didn’t give our bowlers many to defend but they came out and did really well up top. I think maybe another 40 or 50 runs, setting them 200, and it would have been a very good game. It was a great effort to try and claw it back but we just couldn’t get over the line.
“Georgia Elwiss batted really well in the game situation and Jonesy helped her. I thought we might get one of them out early in their partnership, we had a little bit of a sniff, but they were relentless in their partnership and batted really well.
“This is a testing time for us. It is a just a matter of how well we can regroup as a team. I think in the previous games, and even in this one, it has been fairly fine margins that went against us, so if a few more decisions and partnerships going our way, we will be back over that line again. We have just got to keep backing ourselves and believing we can do it and we’ll soon be back on that winning streak.”
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