{"id":606040,"date":"2026-05-27T05:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606040\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T05:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T05:13:12","slug":"womens-t20-blast-hampshire-beat-essex-despite-grewcock-half-century-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/606040\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s T20 Blast: Hampshire beat Essex despite Grewcock half-century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On three occasions during the Hampshire innings, Coppack throttled the Hawks \u2013 who had chosen to bat first \u2013 with unrelentingly accurate bowling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firstly, in the powerplay, where her two overs went for nine runs, with the added bonus of having Georgia Adams caught at mid-wicket. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her third over saw her bowl Francesca Sweet \u2013 who had looked dangerous with a quickfire 20 \u2013 and only went for four runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And her final return, in the penultimate over of the innings, ended Hampshire&#8217;s most fruitful partnership \u2013 45 from 28 balls between Rhianna Southby and Nancy Harman as Coppack dismissed both of them in the over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite that, Hampshire built a solid score, with every batter getting a start and plenty of partnerships formed, but none kicking on to help set an imposing total.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amanda-Jade Wellington and Poppy Tulloch, combining for 21 runs off the final seven balls gave the hosts some momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On three occasions during the Hampshire innings, Coppack throttled the Hawks \u2013 who had chosen to bat first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-606040","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\/606040","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=606040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}