‘Vitality blast’ Cricket Tournament (for 20 overs) starts on May 22 Women’s League One fixtures for 2026 are listed below, arranged by venue:- *Blackpool, Stanley Park (Lancs) Tuesday 9 June @14h30: Lancashire Thunder vs Hampshire Hawks (match 27); Sunday, 28 June @tbc: Lancashire Thunder vs Warwickshire Bears (match 33); *Birmingham, Edgbaston (marketed as ‘EdgBLASTon’) §
Bristol Bears v Loughborough Lightning Bears can feel very sorry for themselves. They’re suffering an injury-list as long as your arm, and not even two World Cup winners and a former World Player of the Year could ensure a second win in six attempts. They remain anchored in eighth place. Things looked far more prosperous
Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup (tournament for 20 overs) results by venue for 2025 *Allscott Cricket Ground (Salop) May 5, Shropshire women 147/7 beat Norfolk women 101/7 by 46 runs; round 1@url: https://live.nvplay.com/ecb/?tab=m_scorecard#med666783-8d4c-4a92-a3d6-ef20bed89b64 *Beckenham, Kent County Ground (Hosted by Surrey) May 17, Surrey women 237/7 beat Hampshire Hawks women 180/9 by 57 runs; round 3
Vitality blast’ Cricket Tournament (for 20 overs) played between 30 May and 27 July. Women’s results are listed below, arranged by venue:- *Arundel, The Castle Cricket Ground June 7: Durham Cricket (women) 119/6 beat Hampshire Hawks (women) 33/2 by 1 run – Duckworth Lewis Stern ‘DLS’ method (match 13); @url: http://4theloveofsport.co.uk/2025/06/10/vitality-blast-women-t20-league-one-match-13/ *Birmingham, Edgbaston § May
Surrey Women (154-5) beat Bears Women (153-9) by 5 wickets. Surrey Women were crowned champions of the first-ever Vitality Blast women’s competition after a convincing five-wicket win over the Bears Women at the Kia Oval. Grace Harris led the way for the hosts with a match-winning 63* from just 33 balls, guiding Surrey to victory
Bears Women (162-8) beat The Blaze (143ao) by 20 runs. Bears Women overcame defending short-format champions The Blaze, in the Vitality Women’s T20 Blast Eliminator at the Kia Oval to secure their place in the final later this afternoon. Player of the match, Bears’ Issy Wong, top scored with 59 and bowled an impressive 4-19.
Surrey (women) v Birmingham Bears (women) (match 53 – league one stand alone fixture) London (South) at The Kia Oval (Kennington) on Friday 18 July 2025 (18h30 with floodlights) Friday Finale became a ‘dress rehearsal’ for the competition’s semi-finals – albeit that third-placed Bears women would need to beat The Blaze who stand-in-the-way of playing
‘Vitality blast’ Cricket Tournament (for 20 overs) concludes with finals day on July 27 Matches prefixed ‘§’ indicates ‘double-headers’ (both women’s matches dual ticketed with either women’s or men’s matches); Remaining women’s fixtures with group stage results are listed below, arranged by venue; *Arundel, The Castle Cricket Ground June 7: Durham Cricket (women) 119/6 beat
Hampshire Hawks (women) vs Bears (women) (match 47 – league one ’double-header’ fixture) at the Utilita Bowl, Southampton on Sunday, 13 July 2025 (11h00) Bears women beat Hawks to ‘cement’ their second-place position to qualify for Finals Day (ceteris paribus – all other things being equal) now nine points behind the leaders (Surrey). By comparison, Hawks women
Somerset (women) vs Birmingham Bears (women) (match 44 – league one ’stand-alone’ fixture) at The Coopers Associates County Ground, Taunton on Friday, 11 July 2025 (18h30) Bears women defended their third position in the T20 table, against Somerset women who’d collected their first win. Dutch international Sterre Kalis -pictured – hit ‘fifty’ for Bears from 38
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