Surrey made it two wins from two matches as they geared up their Women’s T20 Blast title defence with a comfortable four-wicket victory over Yorkshire, while Somerset beat Warwickshire Bears and Durham beat Hampshire Hawks. <\/p>\n
Fresh from an opening-round win on Friday afternoon over Lancashire, Surrey waltzed to victory at Headingley, chasing down their hosts’ underpowered 133 in 15.3 overs.<\/p>\n
The Yorkshire total never looked likely to contain the combined batting power of Surrey despite a strong start from the White Rose, with Erin Thomas (with a 29-ball 42) and Lauren Winfield-Hill (23 from 16 balls) getting them off to 60-0.<\/p>\n
Surrey’s Kalea Moore (3-21) and Ryana MacDonald-Gay (3-29) ensured only Sterre Kallis, with 18, made it into double figures, as Yorkshire were all out on the final ball of the 20 overs.<\/p>\n
Somerset went second in the table, improving on their opening-day tie against Hampshire, with a seven-wicket win over last season’s finalists Warwickshire.<\/p>\n
The Bears won the toss and elected to bat, setting a decent total of 166-9, with Meg Austin top-scoring with 41.<\/p>\n
Despite the loss of Rebecca Odgers in the third over, Somerset’s reply gathered momentum, which proved impossible for Warwickshire’s bowlers to halt.<\/p>\n
Skipper Sophie Luff (58 from 33 balls) and Anika Learoyd (60 from 49 balls) shared an 84-run partnership for the second wicket, with the latter steering home the chase with 10 balls to spare.<\/p>\n
Warwickshire, who lost last year’s inaugural final against Surrey by five wickets, have started with two defeats and sit bottom of the table.<\/p>\n
In contrast, Durham started their campaign with a 32-run victory over Hampshire at the Riverside in Chester-le-Street.<\/p>\n
Captain Hollie Armitage posted a top score of 64 from 49 balls after electing to bat first in bright sunshine. She shared a 52-run partnership with Mady Villiers and 60 with Emily Windsor, who struck 35 from 16 balls to set an imposing 178-5.<\/p>\n
Villiers, Katie Levick and Heather Graham all took two wickets apiece as Durham smothered the Hants reply with wickets in each of the final three overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey made it two wins from two matches as they geared up their Women’s T20 Blast title defence…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-601737","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\/601737","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=601737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}