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‘Metro Bank’ One Day Cup League Two  – match 34

Kent (Horses) (women) vs Leicestershire Foxes (women)  match 34, L2) at The Spitfire Ground St Lawrence Canterbury (Kent) on Sunday 6 September 2026 Horses posted a strong innings and successfully defended their total score, to qualify for the competition’s semi-final. Top-scorer Kelly Castle – pictured [60 runs (from 73 balls)] laid a solid foundation partnered

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Metro Bank One Day Cup

Women’s (tournament for 50 overs) League Two – September update 2026 Women’s League Two results for 2026 are listed below, with remaining September’s matches marked in bold; all arranged by venue with suffix ‘L2’ :- *Arundel, Arundel Castle Cricket Ground (Sussex) 02 August: Middlesex (women) 249/8 beat Sussex Sharks (women) 248 ‘All out’ by two

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Source: Julian Thompson

‘Metro Bank’ One Day Cup League Two  – match 30

Leicestershire Foxes (women) vs Middlesex (women) – (match 30, L2) at Kibworth Cricket Club (Leics) on Sunday 16 August 2026  Middlesex women ‘booked their place’ in the semi-finals with season’s best performances from bat-and-ball. Season’s-best performance by Issy Routledge – pictured scored 90 runs (from 108 balls) accumulating 158 runs when partnered by Ariana Dowse,

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‘Metro Bank’ One Day Cup League Two  – match 26

Leicestershire Foxes (women) vs Derbyshire Falcons (women) (match 26, L2) at Uppingham School, Oakham (Rutland) on Sunday, 9 August 2026  Midlands Derby – a ‘dead rubber’ played with neither side expected to qualify for a ‘top-four’ place. Batting first for Falcons women, Frances Lonsdale [106runs(from 114 balls)] played innings anchor, scoring her second competition ‘ton’

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‘Metro Bank’ One Day Cup League Two  – match 20

Northamptonshire Steelbacks (women) vs Leicestershire Foxes (women) (match 20, L2)  at the ‘cinch’ County Ground (Wantage Road) Northampton on 26 July 2026   Evenly balanced tied-match, that ended ’staggeringly’ with a ‘tail-end heave’ for a last-ball tie. Batting first for Steelbacks women, Amelia Kemp – pictured [107 runs (from 115 balls)] scored her maiden ‘ton.’  Both

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Women’s Vitality Blast ‘league two’ top-ten for 2026

Women’s Vitality Blast (2026): top-ten batters and bowlers strike-rates ‘sr’ at group-stage from ‘league two’  *History was made when Saskia Horley  – pictured scored the competition’s first ‘ton’ (from 47 balls) and highest individual score as Middlesex womens skipper: 111 from 56 balls, on June 5. *For new readers, understanding a batter’s impact is not

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‘Vitality Blast’ League Two Results – July 2026

‘Vitality blast’ Cricket Tournament (for 20 overs) played between 22 May and 12 July 2026. Women’s ‘league two’ L2 results are listed below, arranged by venue:- *Brighton & Hove, The 1st Central County Ground, Hove May 31: Glamorgan (women) 167/2 beat Sussex Sharks (women) 166/5 by eight wickets (match 11, L2)@url: http://4theloveofsport.co.uk/2026/06/10/vitality-blast-women-t20-league-two-match-11-2/ June 5: Leicestershire

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 31

Gloucestershire (women) vs  vs Leicestershire Foxes (women)(match 31, league two – ‘stand-alone’ fixture) at Bristol, Seat Unique Stadium, on 3 July 2026 Vital win for Gloucestershire women, to keep their qualification aspirations ‘alive’ for finals day at Cardiff on 12 July, with one group-stage match remaining. When batting, Foxes keeled-over during their ‘power-play,’ losing five

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 33

Derbyshire Falcons (women)  vs Leicestershire Foxes (women) (match 33, league two-‘stand-alone’ fixture); at The OurCoop County Ground, Derby on 5 July 2026  Played purposefully, albeit missing-out on finals day qualification with Falcons women receiving the ‘wooden spoon.’ Batting first, Falcons ‘missed-out’ (on scoring) during their power-play as Foxes women ‘bowled a good line.’ When batting,

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two  – match 27

Leicestershire Foxes vs Glamorgan (match 27,  league two -‘double-header’ fixture) at Leicester, The Uptonsteel County Ground, Grace Road (Leics) on 28 June 2026 Match that went ‘down-to-the-wire’ to see Glamorgan women beat Foxes women by a wafer-thin margin. Glamorgan women enjoyed a more productive ‘power-play,’ retaining twenty runs advantage by mid-way 68/2(vs.Foxes48/2.) Beyond mid-way, ‘ones’

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