Put in on a grey morning with the floodlights shining brightly, Surrey started briskly, scoring 19 from three overs, but Paige Scholfield missed a drive at Charley Phillips and was bowled off-stump. <\/p>\n
Alice Monaghan then lifted a pull at Lucy Higham and was well caught by Tammy Beaumont at square leg.<\/p>\n
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 both bowled.<\/p>\n
From 57-5, Surrey had little option to retrench and Kira Chathli (28) and Chatterji added a watchful 36 before the former was adjudged leg-before to Josie Groves. <\/p>\n
Less arguable was the lbw call against Aylish Cranston (20) when she missed a sweep at Higham and 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. <\/p>\n
When England newcomer Tilly Corteen-Coleman was yorked by Phillips, Surrey’s innings ended with 42 balls unused.<\/p>\n
Their bowlers, though, responded impressively with three wickets in the first five overs as Corteen-Coleman had Beaumont caught at slip, and Maitlin Brown bowled Kathryn Bryce and Amy Jones to leave The Blaze 19-3. <\/p>\n
Elwiss and Sarah Bryce (29) added 42 but Monaghan powered Surrey back into the match by hitting the off-stumps of Bryce and Ella Claridge with successive balls.<\/p>\n
Elwiss and Emma Jones were unruffled and the former hooked Brown for six to bring up the 100 as the sixth-wicket pair added 50 from 75 balls. <\/p>\n
Elwiss reached her half-century from 72 deliveries 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 with 93 balls in hand.<\/p>\n
“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,” said Surrey skipper Chathli.<\/p>\n
“This is a testing time for us. It is a just a matter of how well we can regroup as a team. We have just got to keep backing ourselves and believing we can do it and we’ll soon be back on that winning streak.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Put in on a grey morning with the floodlights shining brightly, Surrey started briskly, scoring 19 from three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-566552","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\/566552","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=566552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}