Reigning champions Surrey moved top of the Women’s T20 Blast table with a 34-run win over The Blaze at Trent Bridge.<\/p>\n
Phoebe Franklin led the way with 46 from 30 balls as Surrey posted 155-9, despite Charli Knott’s incredible figures of 6-25.<\/p>\n
Kalea Moore then took 5-22, a maiden five-wicket haul, as The Blaze collapsed from 98-2 to be bowled out for just 121.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, a world-record equalling partnership between Lauren Winfield-Hill and Sterre Kalis helped Yorkshire claim their first win this season as they beat Somerset, and Durham beat Lancashire.<\/p>\n
In the Nottingham sunshine, Surrey’s win lifted them above their hosts with six wins from nine matches as The Blaze slip to fourth after a second defeat of the campaign.<\/p>\n
On a tricky surface, the substance of the Surrey innings came in an 82-run fifth-wicket partnership between Franklin and Alice Monaghan, who made 35 off 27 balls.<\/p>\n
Australian off-spinning all-rounder Knott took a career-best six-wicket haul for The Blaze and is now the leading wicket-taker in the competition with 16.<\/p>\n
Knott also made 28 from 23 balls as The Blaze moved into contention at 98-2 in the 13th over with Tammy Beaumont making 37 in 36 deliveries and Kathryn Bryce’s 31 from 21.<\/p>\n
But the hosts then collapsed miserably, losing their last eight wickets for 23 runs to lose by a wide margin.<\/p>\n
At Headingley, Yorkshire had lost seven of their previous eight games but made 210-4, the highest total by any team in this year’s Blast.<\/p>\n
Captain Winfield-Hill hit a career best 99 off 55 balls and Netherlands star Kalis 84 not out off 50 as they pair equalled the world record for the highest fourth-wicket partnership in women’s T20 cricket, putting on 167. <\/p>\n
Somerset started their chase well, but their task was too tall. <\/p>\n
Australian Anika Learoyd top-scored with an unbeaten career-best 103 off 49 balls including four sixes. But England leg-spinner Sarah Glenn impressed for Yorkshire with 2-30 as Somerset replied with 199-5.<\/p>\n
Despite a first victory, Yorkshire stay bottom of the table, while a fourth defeat in nine games dents Somerset’s Finals Day ambitions as they lie fifth.<\/p>\n
But Durham gave their chances of reaching Finals Day a boost as they moved up to third by beating Lancashire by seven wickets at Chester-le-Street.<\/p>\n
Medium-pacer Trudy Johnson led they way, taking a career-best 3-7 as the visitors were dismissed for 79 in 19.3 overs. Number three Darcey Carter offered the only prolonged resistance with an unbeaten 32.<\/p>\n
In reply, Hollie Armitage made 44 not out as Durham coasted home in 13.3 overs, thereby earning five points for their convincing victory, although young leg-spinner Venus Weerappulli offered visiting supporters some consolation and finished with 2-18 from her four overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning champions Surrey moved top of the Women’s T20 Blast table with a 34-run win over The Blaze…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-672701","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\/672701","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=672701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}