Birmingham Bears (women) vs Hampshire Hawks (match 23, league one – ‘stand-alone’ fixture) Sunday 15 June at Edgbaston Stadium
Bears chalked-up their third win from three games played-to-date. Match-winning opening partnership between Meg Austin [51 runs(from 38 balls)] and Davina Perrin 30(22) came from their first six overs of power-play. Partnered by Meg Austin (misreported elsewhere as ‘Perrin’ who did not bat with Kalis) Dutch international Sterre Kalis added forty-two runs. Sterre Kalis added twenty runs when partnered by Nat Wraith, whose cameo innings added another forty-two when partnered by Issy Wong. Hawks best bowler was seamer Daisy Gibb (3/25) who took three wickets in four balls – please see video clip below. By comparison, Hawks main partnership between Abi Norgrove and Mary Taylor added fifty, albeit lower down the order. By the time the Taylor Twins (Mary and Millie) got to play against each other for two just balls, Hawks tail-enders needed to score another fifty runs at more than ten runs-per-over from four overs that remained. Post-match, top-scorer Meg Austin reviewed on-screen highlights of her innings with commentators Adam Bridge and guest player Chloe Brewer. Meg Austin said that when batting with Davina Perrin, she had to be ‘ready to run.’ Chloe Brewer revealed that (readiness) was known by Bears women as ‘green-light’ running.
Bears women wearing ’sky’ blue diamond cheque with yellow trim over dark blue; with yellow helmets and black caps; *skipper Georgia Davis *[Rhianna Southby keeping wicket for Hawks] *with international players Laura Harris (Australia) & Sterre Kalis (NL); *debutante Phoebe Graham (Thunder loan) *without Emily ‘Em’ Arlott, Abbey Freeborn, or Katie George; *After 6 overs ‘power-play’ 52/0; *Davina Perrin was caught at ‘long-on’ by Charli Knott, from Georgia Adams; *91/1 by ‘mid-way’ (after 10 overs); *Meg Austin 51(38), was caught at ‘long-on’ by Charli Knott, from Daisy Gibb; *Laura Harris ‘chopped-on’ from an inside-edge, to dislodge her leg-side bail: bowled by Daisy Gibb for a ‘golden duck;’*Charis Pavely who ‘played all round it,’ was bowled with her leg-stump (to left-hander) flattened, from Daisy Gibb coming round-the-wicket; *Mis-timing a ‘square-cut,’ Sterre Kalis ‘steepled to short-fine’ from a ‘top-edge’ caught by Mary Taylor, from spinner Bex Tyson; *Playing a ‘wide’ ball, Issy Wong feathered an edge to keeper Rhianna Southby, from Freya Davies; *Millie Taylor was caught inside the long-off boundary by Naomi Dattani, from Freya Davies; Bears women batting: Meg Austin51(38), Nat Wraith38*not out(24), Sterre Kalis35(21), Davina Perrin30(22), Issy Wong10(10); Hawks women bowling: Daisy Gibb 3/25, Freya Davies 2/34, Bex Tyson 1/35, Georgia Adams 1/37 ;
Hawks women wearing full-backed and half-fronted striped yellow tops and yellow batting pads over navy blue; *skipper Georgia Adams *[Nat Wraith keeping wicket for Bears]; *with international player Charli Knott (Australia ‘A’), *also with Daisy Gibb, Freya Kemp, Mary Taylor & Bex Tyson; *without Lauren Bell, Ava Lee or Ella McCaughan or Linsey Smith; *Charli Knott was caught behind by keeper Nat Wraith somersaulting sideways, from Phoebe Graham; *Maia Bouchier was caught at ‘mid-wicket’ by Sterre Kalis, from Georgia Davis; *After 6 overs ‘power-play’ 48/2 (vs 52/0); *Freya Kemp chipped to at ‘extra-cover,’ caught by Charis Pavely, from Hannah Baker; *78/3 (vs 91/1) by ‘mid-way’ (after 10 overs); *Rhianna Southby, was caught at ‘extra cover’ by Laura Harris, from Georgia Davis; *Georgia Adams was stumped by Nat Wraith coming down-the-wicket to Millie Taylor; *Mis-timing a square-cut, left-handed Naomi Dattani was stumped by Nat Wraith, also coming down-the-wicket to Millie Taylor; *Mistiming a ‘ramp,’ Abi Norgrove was ‘run out’ by Issy Wong with both batters stranded at the striker’s-end; Hawks women batting: Georgia Adams32(31), Mary Taylor31*not out (18), Rhianna Southby29(21), Maia Bouchier21(14), Abi Norgrove 17(10), Freya Kemp16(14); Bears women bowling: Millie Taylor 2/19, Georgia Davis 2/37, Phoebe Graham 1/19, Hannah Baker 1/33;
Match result: Birmingham Bears (women) 178/7 (@8.9 runs-per-over, from 20/20 overs) beat Hampshire Hawks (women) 165/7 (@8.2 r-p-o from 20/20ov/target 179 from 20/20 overs) by 13 runs
*Scorecard with video highlights, courtesy of ECB via nv play at url: https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#mefbfba5b-c20a-4d96-9995-f9d893b593c8
*BBC Sport @url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/scorecard/e-225312 & SKY Sports@url: https://www.skysports.com/cricket/bears-women-v-hampshire-hawks-women/scorecard/6c8f41a3-f0de-5308-a0f5-e983a10e081a
*Full match free-to-air, courtesy of Bears TV and Warwickshire CCC (Vertu) via YouTube [03h19m00s] @url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMPlte_b4wI
*Gibb takes three wickets in four balls: courtesy of Hampshire Cricket Bears TV and Warwickshire CCC (Vertu) via YouTube [09m42s] @url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHQrG2xIOqg
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