‘SE Stars Women’ vs ‘Northern Diamonds W’ at Ageas Bowl, Southampton on 5 September (Charlotte Edwards Cup – Regional T20 – Final) Alice Capsey partnered by Alice Davidson-Richards played a match-winning 2nd fifty-run partnership for ‘Stars,’ recovering from an earlier meltdown – which saw 4 wickets fall in just 15 deliveries. Both Alice’s batted sensibly
Southern Vipers Women vs Northern Diamonds at Ageas Bowl, Southampton on 5 September (Charlotte Edwards Cup – Regional T20 – Semi-final) Hitting top score of the day, POTM Lauren Winfield-Hill (65 runs from 49 balls) was one of three players from either side who made double-figures; her total score exceeding the combined total of the
England Women v New Zealand 2nd T20I at Hove on 4th September (night) Wearing her 100th Cap, ‘White Ferns’ skipper Sophie Devine started the match full of optimism, needing just 24 runs to pass her 2500-run (T20I) milestone. Afterwards, commentators said that ‘Ferns’ were ‘impressive in the field;’ skipper Devine played a good skipper’s fifty; and the match
New Zealand caught England on the hop as Sophie Devine celebrated her 100th T20 appearance with two wickets and a 50. All looked fine and dandy for the hosts as Danni Wyatt (35) danced down the pitch to the first ball of the match and deposited it over the long-on boundary. But once she and
England Women v New Zealand 1st T20I at Chelmsford on 1st September (night) England’s Tammy Beaumont needed one boundary short for her century, but was caught out from the penultimate innings ball. Posting her 2nd highest score in T20I, POTM, Beaumont told player-turned-commentator Isa Guha that she’d been ‘waiting to (make a high score) for
England v New Zealand – First T20 Tammy Beaumont took charge of the game with a dominant 97, failing to reach her century only in the last over. A scoop off the penultimate ball finished in Brooke Halliday’s hands at short fine-leg. Sophie Devine sent England in, but her bowlers came under early pressure, Beaumont
The 5-way tournament in La Manga Club Murcia Spain concluded with more wins for Scotland and Ireland. France v Scotland Result: France 24; Scotland 25-3 Scotland won by 7 wickets France managed to reach the same score as in their previous match, but since that was a mere two dozen, it shows the mountain they
‘Lightning’ vs ‘Southern Vipers’ at Derby on 30 August (Charlotte Edwards Cup – Regional T20 – Group A) Previously ‘Vipers’ won by 46 runs (on July 3rd). *‘Vipers’ needed to win to stage their part in a North-South Divide Semi-Final (vs ‘Diamonds’) *Playing without ‘covid’ quarantined Maia Bouchier and Charlie Dean, ‘Vipers’’ Paige Scholfield found
‘Sunrisers’ vs ‘Western Storm’ at Fenner’s, Cambridge on 30 August (Charlotte Edwards Cup – Regional T20 – Group B) Previously ‘Sunrisers’ won by 7 wickets with 13 balls remaining (on June 26th) *Topping their group table from the previous match, ‘Storm’ needed more than a convincing win to remain in the tournament (to qualify for the semi-final
Stars secured their place in the final at the Ageas with a convincing win over Sparks at Edgbaston Foundation Ground. Like all the squads they were shorn of many of their top players, but not even Alice Capsey’s late withdrawal – she didn’t recover from the awkward fall she suffered when being run out in
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