Lancashire Thunder women vs The Blaze (match 5, league one ‘double-header’) at Manchester, Emirates Old Trafford on Saturday, 31 May 2025 (15h00) Expectations for Thunder women were high, skipper Ellie Threlkeld having just lifted the Vitality T20 Women’s County Cup at their first attempt. By contrast, The Blaze were playing back-to-back matches, following their Midlands
Somerset women vs Surrey women – (match 2, league one ‘double-header’) – at Taunton, The Cooper Associates County Ground (Somerset) on Friday, May 30 (14h30) Surrey women won their first match of the inaugural ‘Vitality Blast T20’ against Somerset, by eight wickets. When bowling first, England u-19 star bowler Tilly Corteen-Coleman who two wickets, also
Hampshire Hawks women vs Essex women – (match 1, league one ‘double-header’) – at Southampton, The Utilita Bowl (Hants) on Friday 30 May 2025 (15h00) Hawks women won the first match of the inaugural ‘Vitality Blast T20’ against Essex, before a record crowd for watching women’s cricket at the Utilita bowl; of 4378 (excluding women’s
Derby This is England, so a black cloud hovered over the ground and the umbrellas went up, but not for long. Nat Sciver-Brunt won the toss and decided to bat. The game worked out just as we should have expected. Off the first two overs Tammy Beaumont and Amy Jones each hit a four, to
News of a season-ending hamstring injury to ex-captain, Heather Knight cuts two ways. She has proved England’s most reliable batter in the T20 series against the West Indies. In her absence the top order looks potentially vulnerable again. Apart from her only the new captain, Nat Sciver-Brunt, can be relied on to provide runs in
The Vitality Blast women’s competition county-by-county preview compiled by journalists from the ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay. BEARS Previewed by Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay Captain: Georgia Davis Overseas players: Laura Harris (Australia, full competition) Key winter moves: Bears entered the new era needing to keep up without the Joneses (Amy
All change for the better? – No! England, already one-up after the match at Canterbury, made the short-form series safe with a second win at Hove by 9 wickets. Scores: West Indies 81-9 England 82-1 The ECB website claims England won by 8 wickets. Ah! 9-1 = 8. The game served to underline the sad
Pakistan spinner Sadia Iqbal is back as No. 1 bowler after Ecclestone misses England-West Indies series. West Indies captain Hayley Matthews has moved up to a career-best-equalling second position in the ICC Women’s T20I Batting Rankings after a valiant show against England, while Pakistan spinner Sadia Iqbal has regained the number one position among bowlers
Taunton The Semis Surrey v Warwickshire Kent won this game for Surrey. There were six of them in the team, and both innings turned on their performances. Alexa Stonehouse took 4-29 and Ryana Macdonald-Gay 2-25 to put the skids under the Midlanders’ innings. They scored fast, but after reaching 65-6 in under nine overs, then
Gloucestershire women vs Glamorgan women – match 13, L2 – at Seat Unique Stadium Bristol on Saturday 3 May 2025 Glamorgan women bagged their second win, under their skipper Lauren Parfitt who’d returned from injury. Two batters dominated the match: Daisy Jeans who scored ‘fifty’ (for Glamorgan women) partnered by Beth Gammon (Wales) banking 87
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