Surrey squeezed past Somerset by one wicket with only three balls to spare to claim the final spot in the One-Day Cup knockout stages.<\/p>\n
In a match between third and fourth at The Oval, the home side needed seven off the final over to chase down Somerset’s 295-7 off their 50 overs.<\/p>\n
As it was, a wide from Ellie Anderson, a four from Kate Coppack and two scrambled leg-byes helped Surrey home to set up a match away to Hampshire on Wednesday, with the winner meeting The Blaze in the final at Utilita Bowl on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It was despair for Somerset, whose total had been set up by 108 from captain Sophie Luff and a superb unbeaten 130 from Niamh Holland.<\/p>\n
Former England player Kate Cross took 2-54 in her final match before retirement as Lancashire beat Yorkshire by seven wickets at Headingley, while Durham beat Warwickshire by four wickets in the day’s other game.<\/p>\n
With The Blaze and Hampshire having finished their group matches and locked into the top two spots, it was all eyes on the match at The Oval.<\/p>\n
Surrey opted to bowl and were made to suffer by a partnership of 196 for Somerset’s third wicket between Luff and Holland.<\/p>\n
Luff fell for 108 but Holland carried on to reach her century off 113 balls and added 30 more in only 15 balls in a late blitz to set a challenging target.<\/p>\n
Sune Luus scored 54 in Surrey’s reply, but when the South Africa all-rounder was out, the hosts were wobbling at 142-5. Captain Kira Chathli added 51 and Phoebe Franklin made 46 as they remained in contention, but when Franklin fell, the score was 257-8 in the 45th over.<\/p>\n
Kalea Moore contributed a valuable 23 at number nine, until she was lbw in the penultimate over, one ball after having to call for a runner, with Alex Griffiths taking 5-54.<\/p>\n
The target was seven as Anderson bowled the last over, but she started badly with a wide and then a low full toss was misfielded at mid-off to run away for four to Coppack (16 not out).<\/p>\n
A leg-bye brought the scores level, which was enough for Surrey having started the day one point ahead, before another scramble from Coppack and last batter Dani Gregory secured a remarkable victory and a trip to Southampton on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey squeezed past Somerset by one wicket with only three balls to spare to claim the final spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-768701","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\/768701","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=768701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}