{"id":685687,"date":"2026-07-11T08:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685687\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T08:01:22","slug":"womens-t20-blast-the-blaze-and-durham-assured-of-finals-day-spots-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/685687\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s T20 Blast: The Blaze and Durham assured of Finals Day spots"},"content":{"rendered":"

With their win over The Blaze on Wednesday<\/a>, Hampshire had guaranteed their place in Finals Day and they reeled off a seventh successive victory at Edgbaston.<\/p>\n

Already eliminated Warwickshire were asked to bat and captain Katie George led the way with 67 at the top of the order as they posted 166-5.<\/p>\n

But the Hawks were aggressive in their chase as captain Georgia Adams smashed 53 off 29 balls to go with 2-21 off her four overs of spin. She departed to leave the score 90-4, but Nancy Harman’s 49 off 26 took them to the brink, which was rounded off with an over to spare.<\/p>\n

Hampshire are now guaranteed to finish first, while Warwickshire’s T20 Blast campaign ends with nine losses from their 12 games.<\/p>\n

Lancashire and Yorkshire were out of contention, so only Roses rivalry was at stake and Ami Campbell’s fine 64 led the way while a composed 33 from Jess Jonassen helped the White Rose to post 162-6.<\/p>\n

And when Lancashire openers Eve Jones and Meg Lanning fell quickly to leave them 14-2, home hopes started to fade.<\/p>\n

Tilly Kesteven had to retire hurt on 28, a score matched by some late blows from the unbeaten Kate Cross, but the result was never in doubt as they finished on 133-8, with teenage leg-spinner Holly Garton claiming an impressive 3-23 as Lancashire remain rooted to the foot of the table with only one match to go. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With their win over The Blaze on Wednesday, Hampshire had guaranteed their place in Finals Day and they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-685687","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\/685687","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=685687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}