Durham Cricket (women) vs Essex (women) – match 5 – League One – at Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street (Co. Durham) on Wednesday 15 April 2026
Summarising Durham Cricket women’s first win this season, commentators witnessed ‘great cricket,’ as DC posted their second highest competition score (highest: 315 vs Somerset on 30 July 2025.) Guest international player Tahlia Wilson made a resounding ‘impression’ on her new team by posting career-best 152 runs (from 163 balls): that included fifteen ‘fours.’ Skipper Hollie Armitage – pictured – equaled her fourth highest competition score with a ‘useful’ match-winning 81 (from 65.) Essex skipper Grace Scrivens 47(80) and Cordelia Griffith 50(77) were ’squeezed,’ causing their required-run-rate to double by the 30th over, ‘nudging’ 9 r-p-o. Commentators were delighted that Jodi Grewcock 77(69) partnered by Flo Miller 49*not out(37) ‘kept the game alive,’ with good running between wickets in the face of inclement weather, forecast for 4pm. Separately Ash Thorpe felt improvement was needed by bowlers to reduce the number of ‘wides’ gifted by Durham Cricket. Commentators were Ash Thorpe from ‘Durham Cricket’ academy, with Polly Starkie as social media co-host of ‘Noughtie Child Podcast;’ and ‘HerGameToo’ cricket ambassador. Weather: ‘overcast’ with ‘a few drops’ of occasional rain, around 12C.
Durham Cricket (women) wearing three-toned blue-mauve-red vests with yellow logos; *Skipper Hollie Armitage *[Amara Carr keeping wicket for Essex women] *international Tahlia Wilson (Australia – Women’s Big Bash League); also with Katherine Fraser (Scotland); *Score 60/0 after 10 overs power-play; & mid-way 132/0 after 25 overs; *Emma Marlow was caught aerial ‘in the covers’ by Sophia Smale from Jodi Grewcock; *Hollie Armitage lost her leg-stump bail, bowled by Esmae MacGregor; *Scoring her career-best 152, Tahlia Wilson’s off-stump was flattened with bails sent flying by Eva Gray; Durham Cricket women batting: Tahlia Wilson 152(163); Hollie Armitage 81(65); Emma Marlow 53(73); Essex women bowling: Eva Gray 1/59(10); Jodi Grewcock 1/34(6); Esmae MacGregor 1/58(8);
Essex (women) wearing mauve tops and blue batting pads; skipper Grace Scrivens; [Tahlia Wilson keeping wicket for DC]; *Score 45/0 (vs 60/0) after 10 overs power-play; *Three short of a ’skipper’s fifty,’ Grace Scrivens was stumped by keeper Tahlia Wilson, from Mady Villiers; *Mid-way 113/1 (vs 132/0) after 25 overs; *Scoring ‘fifty,’ Cordelia Griffith went ‘leg-before’ to Grace Thompson’s slower ball; *Lissy MacLeod was bowled with her ‘leg-stump’ flattened by seamer Sophia Turner; *Jo Gardner was bowled ‘middle-and-off’ by spinner Katherine Fraser; *Finally, top-scorer Jodi Grewcock was caught aerial at ‘deep mid-off’ by Sophia Turner from Katie Levick; Essex women batting: Jodi Grewcock 77(69); Cordelia Griffith 50(77); Flo Miller 49*not out(37); Grace Scrivens 47(80); Lissy MacLeod 15(17); Jo Gardner 14(16); Amara Carr 11*not out(4); Durham Cricket women bowling: Katherine Fraser 1/27(6); Grace Thompson 1/39(9); Katie Levick 1/53(10); Sophia Turner 1/57(8); Mady Villiers 1/58(10);
Match result: Durham Cricket (women) 311/3 (@ 6.2 runs-per-over from 50/50 overs) beat Essex (women) 288/5 (@ 5.7 runs-per-over from 50/50 overs) by 23 runs
*Scorecard with video highlights, courtesy of ECB via nv play @url: https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_summary#mc5520000-6664-a623-e6b8-08de2dc247f0
*Upcoming League one fixtures @url: https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/4408104/metro-bank-one-day-cup-womens-competition-fixtures-2026
