{"id":28524,"date":"2025-07-28T11:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28524\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:04:23","slug":"womens-vitality-blast-surrey-beat-bears-to-become-t20-blast-champions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/28524\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Vitality Blast: Surrey beat Bears to become T20 Blast champions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bears batted first in the final with Wong again top-scoring for her side with 31 before being bowled by Alexa Stonehouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Laura Harris, the sister of Surrey&#8217;s Grace, struck a typically ferocious 25 from 11 but the Bears struggled to build partnerships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phoebe Franklin was the pick of the Surrey attack with 2-16, while two run outs helped to further restrict the Bears to 153-9 in 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Surrey suffered early blows in their reply when Danni Wyatt-Hodge holed out to Em Arlott in the deep and Bryony Smith fell to the last ball in the powerplay. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were further rocked when Nat Wraith stumped Alice Capsey off Hannah Baker to leave them 42-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sophia Dunkley got Surrey back on course with three boundaries from Millie Taylor&#8217;s opening over and a six off Baker in the next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Dunkley was out to a smart piece of work behind the stumps from Wraith, Grace Harris took up the baton to play the match-defining innings, charging to her half-century at a strike rate of 200 and seeing her side home to claim the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bears batted first in the final with Wong again top-scoring for her side with 31 before being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-28524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}