At Edgbaston, Austin looked on course for her second century in three innings for the Bears before she offered a return catch to Jess Woolston six runs short.<\/p>\n
But Em Arlott’s 44 from just 19 balls and Brooke Halliday, with 37, made sure the momentum was never badly lost as the home side reached 269-9, with Claudie Cooper (4-55) the pick of the Yorkshire attack. <\/p>\n
Rain in Birmingham saw the visitors’ target brought down to 260 in 46 overs but Arlott returned to wreak early havoc with the ball, ending up with 3-24, with Phoebe Brett (3-59) backing her up to make sure Yorkshire’s threat was snuffed out despite a gallant 52 from Sterre Kalis.<\/p>\n
The win moved Warwickshire up to third in the table and firmly in contention for a top-three finish with four games to go.<\/p>\n
At Chelmsford, bottom club Essex were soundly beaten by Somerset as openers Odgers and Luff crashed centuries in a marvellous stand of 223 for the first wicket.<\/p>\n
Odgers’ 133 came off 124 balls and Luff’s effort of 103 was compiled off 96 as the pair broke the back of their chase of 267 on their own.<\/p>\n
That took the limelight away from the way Essex recovered from 15-2 to reach 184 thanks to a gutsy stand of 169 between Jodi Grewcock (87) and Sophia Smale, who went on to make a career-best 83.<\/p>\n
Liberty Heap’s 39 took Essex beyond 250 before she was removed by Ellie Anderson (3-44), but the brilliance of Odgers and Luff made sure that was never enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At Edgbaston, Austin looked on course for her second century in three innings for the Bears before she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743448","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\/743448","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=743448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}