Tammy Beaumont starred as The Blaze produced a dominant display to claim their first Women’s T20 Blast title, thrashing Durham by 10 wickets at The Oval.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old who retired from international cricket with England earlier this summer,<\/a> made 54 as she shared an unbroken opening partnership of 118 with Sarah Bryce who scored her first half-century of the tournament, finishing unbeaten on 53.<\/p>\n Having disposed of Surrey in the day’s opening semi-final,<\/a> Kirstie Gordon’s side were always in control against a Durham team who had scored a surprise victory over Hampshire Hawks<\/a> in the last four.<\/p>\n After being put in to bat, Durham lost captain Hollie Armitage to left-armer Grace Ballinger to the fourth ball of their innings and never recovered on a slow surface which made run-scoring difficult against The Blaze’s battery of slower bowlers.<\/p>\n Australian all-rounder Heather Graham backed-up her 35 against Hampshire with 30 from 23 balls but her dismissal looked crucial and, despite useful knocks of 20 from both Grace Thompson and Emily Windsor a total of 117-8 proved well below par.<\/p>\n Tournament top wicket-taker Charli Knott claimed 2-25 with Gordon taking 3-21, although they were poorly supported in the field with five catches going to ground, albeit they did not prove costly.<\/p>\n With little room for error, Lauren Filer promptly served up two wides from her opening three deliveries of the reply and neither Beaumont or Bryce offered a sniff of a chance as they strolled to victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tammy Beaumont starred as The Blaze produced a dominant display to claim their first Women’s T20 Blast title,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698100","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\/698100","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=698100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}