{"id":672650,"date":"2026-07-04T01:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672650\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T01:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T01:41:23","slug":"match-report-yorkshire-women-v-somerset-vitality-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/672650\/","title":{"rendered":"MATCH REPORT: Yorkshire Women v Somerset, Vitality Blast"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Sterre Kalis and Lauren Winfield-Hill were sensational for Yorkshire at Headingley today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SCORECARD\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Yorkshire v Somerset, Vitality Blast Women, Friday July 3, 2026, 2.30pm, Headingley\u00a0<\/p>\n

Toss: Somerset won it and elected to bowl<\/p>\n

Teams \u2013 Yorkshire: Ami Campbell, Erin Thomas, Jess Jonassen, Lauren Winfield-Hill c\/w, Sterre Kalis, Sarah Glenn, Alice Clarke, Beth Langston, Hannah Rainey, Jess Woolston, Holly Garton.<\/p>\n

Somerset: Bex Odgers, Sophie Luff c, Anika Learoyd, Niamh Holland, Jess Hazell w, Alex Griffiths, Ruby Davis, Lola Harris, Olivia Barnes, Maddie Russell, Erin Vukusic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Match summary: Yorkshire won their first match of this season\u2019s Vitality Blast, by 11 runs at the ninth attempt, and it was largely down to the brilliance of fourth-wicket pair Lauren Winfield-Hill and Sterre Kalis.<\/p>\n

Winfield-Hill amassed a career best 99 off 55 balls, while Kalis wasn\u2019t far behind with 84 not out off 50 as the pair shared a joint world record partnership for that wicket of 167 to recover the White Rose from 18-3 to 210-4 against Finals Day chasing Somerset.<\/p>\n

Somerset\u2019s Australian overseas star Anika Learoyd hit a brilliant 103 not out off 49 balls, including four sixes, but Yorkshire just had enough as the visitors finished on 199-5.<\/p>\n

Sarah Glenn and Jess Woolston were particularly impressive with spin and seam, returning 2-30 and 1-31 respectively. They both bowled miserly overs late on in the visiting chase to get Yorkshire on the board after seven defeats and a rainy No Result.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Jess Woolston conceded only four off the 18th over of Somerset\u2019s chase.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Report: Erin Thomas top-edged a skied return catch to the seam of Alex Griffiths at the end of the first over.<\/p>\n

Maddie Russell then had Ami Campbell caught at cover and Jess Jonassen at point, with Yorkshire reaching the end of the powerplay at 42-3<\/p>\n

Winfield-Hill and Kalis quickly got going to recover things from what had been 18-3 on a belter of a batting pitch and with a lightning fast outfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winfield-Hill swept back-to-back boundaries off Lola Harris\u2019s leg-spin in the 10th over to move into the forties, and the score reached 82-3 at the halfway point in the innings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winfield-Hill reached a 31-ball fifty shortly afterwards and also faced two head-high full tosses from Niamh Holland, who was removed from Somerset\u2019s attack having bowled only nine balls. Later, Somerset also retired out Griffiths as she was three off nine balls deep in their chase.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway, Winfield-Hill had been dropped not long before reaching her fifty \u2013 and when similarly classy Kalis reached hers off 33 balls, Yorkshire were motoring at 153-3 in the 16th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Somerset were put under serious pressure as the pair hit 34 boundaries between them, with Winfield-Hill falling agonisingly short of a maiden century when she miscued to backward point to hand Russell a late third wicket. She hit 19 fours in all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But, surprisingly, it was Bex Odgers who hit the first six of the match when she pulled Hannah Rainey over deep backward square-leg as 12 came from the first over of the Somerset chase.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Sarah Glenn struck twice for Yorkshire and celebrates one of those wickets with Alice Clarke.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Odgers pulled another off Rainey as Somerset reached the end of the powerplay at 61-1, losing captain Sophie Luff to Jess Woolston\u2019s seam.<\/p>\n

Odgers made it to 39 before being trapped lbw by Sarah Glenn with the score on 81 in the ninth over.<\/p>\n

Learoyd played nicely and pulled Woolston for six over midwicket en-route to her 27-ball fifty, by which time Somerset were 129-2 after 13, needing 82 more.<\/p>\n

Glenn bowled a brilliant 15th over, conceding only three and bowling Holland. And at 140-3, despite Learoyd\u2019s presence on 57, it felt key.<\/p>\n

Two overs later, Woolston conceded four and impressed as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Somerset retired Griffiths out just before Learoyd reached her century off 48 balls as Jonassen defended 32 off the last over.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Magic moment: The fourth-wicket partnership off 167 between Lauren Winfield-Hill and Sterre Kalis was sensational, recovering Yorkshire from 18-3 in the fourth over.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Turning point: Two words for you. See Above!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Anika Learoyd on her way to an unbeaten century for Somerset.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stat of the match: That 167 stand is a joint world record for the fourth wicket in women\u2019s T20 cricket, equalling UAE pair Esha Oza and Heena Hotchandani, who did the same against Nepal in Bangkok February of this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What they said \u2013 Yorkshire\u2019s captain Lauren Winfield-Hill:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an absolute belter of a pitch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it was a tight margin in the end, but I don\u2019t think we bowled that badly. We just got three or four in the arc of Learoyd, which we could have avoided.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe crowd was awesome. These double headers bring a lot, that one-club feel where you can stay and watch the blokes, they come early and ask about the pitch. It\u2019s been a great afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know people say, \u2018Oh, a hundred\u2019, but it doesn\u2019t really make a difference to me. I was trying to get a four off that ball, I wasn\u2019t playing for my hundred at that point.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a great game of cricket from both sides, and I\u2019m thrilled that we\u2019re genuinely on the board.<\/p>\n

\u201cSterre is a superb player who has improved year on year. We probably didn\u2019t see the best of her at the World Cup. She has to play a different role for the Netherlands, but the way she plays for us she\u2019s one of the top players in domestic cricket over here now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Star duo Sterre Kalis and Lauren Winfield-Hill celebrate victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWoolly\u2019s been awesome. It\u2019s been tough for her to get back into the team. She\u2019s worked hard behind the scenes. She probably lacked a bit of control coming off the back of the 50-over stuff into the T20s, but she\u2019s worked really hard with Rich Pyrah.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThat over from her, it iced the game for us. She went for four and executed exactly what we wanted her to do. The plan was to go wide away from Learoyd\u2019s arc, and she was able to do that most successfully. Had that over gone for 10 or 11, that last over was even more dicey.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next: Yorkshire are back in action very quickly, against Warwickshire Bears at Edgbaston on Sunday morning, starting at 11.30am. That is a double-header day alongside the Bears\u2019 men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture by Allan McKenzie\/SWPix.com. Sterre Kalis and Lauren Winfield-Hill were sensational for Yorkshire at Headingley today.\u00a0 SCORECARD\u00a0 Yorkshire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672650","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\/672650","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=672650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}