Spence completed consecutive Vitality Blast half-centuries as Surrey recovered from their first defeat of the campaign by overcoming Essex at the Oval.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old, who registered her maiden Blast 50 in a losing cause against Somerset last time out, backed it up with a bustling 52 from 31 balls, including nine fours, to steer her side towards victory.<\/p>\n
That maintained the defending champions’ position at the top of the table and denied Essex a third consecutive win despite an impressive 85 not out from 63 balls by skipper Scrivens, who, after losing the toss, hit 10 fours and a six and batted through her side’s innings, during which Surrey off-spinner Kalea Moore took 2-19.<\/p>\n
Essex coach Stephen Parry said: “For us to be three out of five, knowing we’ve got a really big game at home on Sunday to finish this block off is exciting for this group. It looks like we’re going to be fighting for a finals place.”<\/p>\n
Durham’s impressive start to the Blast continued with a convincing victory over struggling Yorkshire.<\/p>\n
Bess Heath top-scored with 36 off 25 balls and Mia Rogers made a quickfire late 29 not out in the visitors’ 155-6, despite good turns from England all-rounder Sarah Glenn and Scotland seamer Hannah Rainey on their returns from injury.<\/p>\n
Levick impressed with 2-13 from four overs while the seam of Graham and Turner claimed three and two wickets respectively as the hosts limped to 89-6 in the 15th over before on-loan debutant Alice Clarke impressed with a consolatory 32, only to be bowled by Graham, who now has 12 wickets in the campaign.<\/p>\n
Austin’s 74 from 51 balls was not enough to deny The Blaze victory as the Trent Bridge side successfully defended 151-7 to pick up a fourth win in five matches and leave Bears waiting for their first win.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old opener struck seven fours and three sixes but with Georgia Redmayne’s 22 the next highest score, they closed on 140-5 to lose by 11 runs.<\/p>\n
Skipper Marie Kelly’s 29 from 22 balls helped The Blaze put early runs on the board and Emma Jones provided some mid-innings impetus with 32 from 22.<\/p>\n
Spinners Georgia Davis (3-24) and Hannah Baker (2-19) inflicted significant damage in between as the home side lost five wickets before Grace Ballinger (17 from 13) weighed in with extra runs at the death and then picked up 2-20 with the ball including the key wicket of Austin in the penultimate over.<\/p>\n
Match report details supplied by the ECB Reporters’ Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spence completed consecutive Vitality Blast half-centuries as Surrey recovered from their first defeat of the campaign by overcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623695","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\/623695","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=623695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}