Sunrisers vs Western Storm at Chelmsford, at The Cloud County Ground on 19 June 2024 at 11h30
Home team commentators remained optimistic for most of the match, at least until mid-way when Sunrisers were just 5 runs behind. Beyond mid-way all-but-one of their remaining wickets were ‘thrown away.’ Match highlights included Storm’s opener Emma Corney (pictured) who’d recovered from pre-season injury last month, to post her career-best score for the competition [46 runs (from 49 balls).] Together with Heather Knight’s (England’s skipper) who scored a match-winning ‘fifty,’ the pair added 74 runs. Storm went on to lose six wickets for 41 runs. Sophie Munro for took two pairs of Storm wickets, chalking-up her career-best 4-fer. Sunrisers made an ‘excellent start,’ (at least until mid-way – as mentioned above.) Needing 15 to win their final over, Sunrisers suffered frustration of two ‘run-outs,’ only to ‘come-up short.’ Sadly, Sunrisers received their fourth consecutive ‘wooden spoon,’ Storm narrowly avoiding their first. Commentators were Kevin Hand (Cricket journalist) with guest Danni Warren (Middx regional director of women’s cricket) for Sunrisers. Weather: cloudy with patches of blue sky 15-20C.
*Storm’s innings skipper Sophie Luff, with Heather Knight & Danni Gibson (England) Fran Wilson (exEngland); Chloe Skelton, Sophia Smale, (England u-19s), Amanda-Jade Wellington (Australia Big bash); ‘on loan’ & Issy Wong (‘England A’ from Sparks); *Without Ellie Anderson who previously took a 4-fer at Taunton (on 31 May); [*Amara Carr keeping wicket for Sunrisers]; *Playing across-the-line, Danni Gibson was caught from a top-edge at ‘short-fine’ by Amu Surenkumar stepping backwards, from Eva Gray; *After 6 overs power-play, 44/1; & 66/1 by mid-way; *Emma Corney was caught by Jodi Grewcock ‘back-tracking,’ from Amu Surenkumar’s seventh ball; *Big wicket’ when Fran Wilson ‘run out’ by Jo Gardner’s direct hit to the non-striker’s end, by Mady Villiers; *Two wickets fell three balls apart; *Sophie Luff was caught at ‘mid-wicket’; by Grace Scrivens stepping backwards, from Sophie Munro; *Attempting ‘reverse-sweep,’ Amanda-Jade Wellington was caught by Kate Coppack tumbling backwards; *Second pair of wickets fell during the same over when Natasha Wraith was caught by Lissy MacLeod from Sophie Munro; *Finally, Amara Carr stumped Heather Knight who posted top-score from Sophie Munro’s final ball; *Storm’s batting: three Storm batters made double-figures: Heather Knight 66(43), Emma Corney 46(49), Danni Gibson 15(11); Sunrisers’ bowling: Sophie Munro 4/23, Amu Surenkumar 1/19, Eva Gray 1/28;
*Sunrisers’ innings: skipper Grace Scrivens (ECB Development Squad & England ‘A’) with Lauren Filer (England), Mady Villiers (England ‘A’), Jodi Grewcock (England u19s), Eva Gray (ECB Development Squad) *Also with Kate Coppack, Sophie Munro & Amu Surenkumar; *Without Nicola ’Nic’ Hancock (Australia Big-bash) or Cordelia Griffith; [*Nat Wraith keeping wicket for Storm]; *Mady Villiers was caught at ‘deep square’ by Chloe Skelton, from Issy Wong’s 2nd ball; *Grace Scrivens was caught by Issy Wong from Danni Gibson; *After 6 overs power-play, 52/2 (vs. 44/1); *Joanne ‘Jo’ Gardner was caught by Danni Gibson’s ‘outstanding’ catch at ‘deep mid-wicket,’ from Amanda-Jade Wellington; *4 balls later Lissy MacLeod ‘chopped’ and edge that was caught-and-bowled by Chloe Skelton for a golden duck; *After 10 overs 71/4 (vs 66/1) by mid-way; *Amara Carr swept to ‘square-leg’ and was caught by Emma Corney, from Sophia Smale; *Attempting a ‘sweep,’ Flo Miller was bowled by Amanda-Jade Wellington; Amu Surenkumar was caught at ‘deep-midwicket’ by Danni Gibson, from Lauren Filer; *Pair of wickets fell during Sophia Smale’s death over when Jodi Grewcock was ‘run-out’ by Sophia Smale, at the non-striker’s end, but posted top-score; *Finally, Sophie Munro was ‘run-out’ at the ‘non-striker’s end’ by Sophia Smale, for a golden duck; *Sunrisers’ batting: four Sunrisers batters made double-figures: Jodi Grewcock 40(34), Grace Scrivens 26(16), Jo Gardner 24(16) & Eva Gray 11*not out(11); *Storm’s bowling: All took wickets: Amanda-Jade Wellington 2/24, Issy Wong 1/13, Sophia Smale 1/20, Chloe Skelton 1/22, Lauren Filer 1/24, Danni Gibson 1/28;
*Match result: Western Storm 142/7 (@7.1 runs-per-over, from 20/20overs); 4 points; beat Sunrisers 131/9 (6.5 rpo, from 20/20 ov, target 143 from 20/20 ov.) by 11 runs
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*Video highlights (48) courtesy of Sunrisers & NV Play @url https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/#v299267f6-ec7b-474f-90ca-9f62fb35ad66
*Full match free-to-air courtesy of Sunrisers TV (via NV Play) on YouTube<02h53m32s>@url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDD0RX31XlY
*Finals day at Derby @url https://derbyshireccc.ticketco.events/uk/en/e/charlotte_edwards_cup_finals_day
