Elsewhere, Ella McCaughan and Abi Norgrove’s mammoth 147-run partnership helped Hampshire (266-5) to a nail-biting five-wicket win over Essex (265-8).<\/p>\n
McCaughan scored 90 and Norgrove struck a personal best 85, and while Hampshire – who lost last year’s final to Lancashire – were taken to the last over, despite Freya Kemp’s vivacious 46, they secured victory with two balls to spare.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Jodi Grewcock had led Essex’s innings with a career-high 80 in front of watching England head coach Charlotte Edwards at the Utilita Bowl.<\/p>\n
Somerset (179-9) beat Yorkshire (178) in another thrilling finale, albeit in a far lower-scoring affair.<\/p>\n
Sophie Luff produced a brilliant match-winning innings of 76 not out from 101 balls as Somerset held their nerve to win by one wicket in Taunton.<\/p>\n
Chasing 179 to win, the hosts were deep in trouble on 115-8, only for Luff to lead them to victory against a Yorkshire side making their first ever top tier appearance.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the visitors were bowled out for 178 in 33.5 overs as Alex Griffiths and Chloe Skelton took 4-22 and 4-42 respectively. Yorkshire skipper Lauren Winfield-Hill top-scored with 36.<\/p>\n
The latest finish of the day came at Edgbaston as Danni Wyatt-Hodge’s dazzling century powered Surrey (389-9) to a 52-run win against Warwickshire (337-9).<\/p>\n
Wyatt-Hodge smashed eight sixes and 10 fours in a scintillating 124 from 80 balls, with Jemima Spence (79) and Alice Davidson-Richards (57) adding valuable support as Surrey recovered superbly from 95-4.<\/p>\n
Warwickshire’s creditable reply fell short from 101-1 despite the best efforts of Amu Surenkumar (59), Em Arlott (90) and Issy Wong (45) as a burst of top-order wickets from Tilly Corteen-Coleman (3-48) ultimately proved decisive.<\/p>\n
Match details supplied by the ECB Reporters’ Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elsewhere, Ella McCaughan and Abi Norgrove’s mammoth 147-run partnership helped Hampshire (266-5) to a nail-biting five-wicket win over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-525605","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\/525605","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=525605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}