{"id":750758,"date":"2026-08-26T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750758\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:24:10","slug":"one-day-cup-the-blaze-qualify-as-lancashire-somerset-surrey-also-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750758\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Day Cup: The Blaze qualify as Lancashire, Somerset &#038; Surrey also win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blaze became the first side to secure a top-three finish in this Women&#8217;s One-Day Cup and a guarantee of a place in the knockout stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Nottingham-based side beat Warwickshire by 70 runs at Edgbaston to stretch their lead over second-placed Hampshire to five points on a day when Somerset, Surrey and holders Lancashire also triumphed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Orla Prendergast (69), Georgia Elwiss (57) and Kathryn Bryce (45) were the mainstays as The Blaze piled up another sizable score of 282-7, England fast-bowler Issy Wong taking 5-58.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Warwickshire looked well-placed at 148-2 in the 30th over, largely thanks to skipper Katie George (89) and Brooke Halliday (52), but they slumped to 212 all out in 43.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That was thanks to the efforts of Lucy Higham (4-41) and pace ace Charley Phillips (8-2-17-1) as The Blaze secured a 10th win in 12 games, while the fourth-placed Bears remain very much in the hunt for a top-four finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kate Cross took a season&#8217;s best 4-33 to keep Lancashire in the hunt with a four-wicket win over Hampshire at Southampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After bowling out their hosts for 223, Emma Lamb then hit 68 out of her side&#8217;s 224-6 as Lancashire resumed where they left off before the break for The Hundred with a third-straight win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Abi Norgove hit an unbeaten 70 for Hampshire, while Freya Kemp warmed up for England&#8217;s three-game series against Ireland next week with an explosive 61 from 54 balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blaze became the first side to secure a top-three finish in this Women&#8217;s One-Day Cup and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-750758","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\/750758","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=750758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}