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‘Metro Bank’ One Day Cup League Two  – match 29

Gloucestershire (women) vs Kent (Horses) (women) – (match 29, L2) at Cheltenham College on Sunday, 16 August 2026  Celebrating the second ‘middle’ week of the Towergate Cheltenham cricket festival, on which occasion, Kent (Horses) women bowled-out Gloucestershire women before mid-way to ‘book their place’ in the competition’s semi-finals. Previously, both teams got through to June’s

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‘Metro Bank’ One Day Cup League Two  – match 24

Worcestershire Rapids (women) vs Kent (Horses) (women) – (match 24, L2) at Astwood Bank Cricket Club, Redditch on Sunday, 2 August 2026  Kent ’Horses’ women ‘showed their quality’ with stand-out batting by centurion Coco Streets – pictured [117runs(from 112 balls)] – her third competition ‘ton’ this season – partnered by Kelly Castle [97*not out(from 111

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‘Metro Bank’ One Day Cup League Two  –  match 19

Kent (Horses) (women) vs Middlesex (women) (match 19, L2) at The Spitfire Ground St Lawrence, Canterbury on Sunday, 26 July 2026  With ‘remarkable effort,’ Horses beat an ‘incredibly strong’ Middx womens’ team, who remain top-of-table with one solitary defeat. Batting first, Middx posted three ‘fifties’ from Saskia Horley 63(56); and Riva Pindoria 60(72) whose third

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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 29

Derbyshire Falcons (women) vs Kent (Horses) (women) (match 29, league two – ‘double-header’ fixture) at The OurCoop County Ground, Derby on 3 July 2026 Destined to finish in either second or third-place (on 23 points) Kent (Horses) women are the first team to qualify for up-coming second-league finals day at Cardiff on Sunday 12 July.

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two  – match 26

Kent (Horses) vs Northamptonshire Steelbacks (match 26, league two -‘double-header’ fixture) at Canterbury, The St Lawrence Ground (Kent) on 28 June 2026  Billed to celebrate Canterbury’s – 174th Cricket Week, this low-scoring thriller went down-to-the-wire and was decided by the final ball. Batting first, Steelbacks women lost three wickets either side of their power-play, scoring

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two  – match 8

Kent (Horses) (women) v Sussex Sharks (women) (match 8, league two – ‘double-header’ fixture) at Canterbury, St Lawrence Ground on 25 May 2026 Charging back from their crushing defeat by Middlesex women as title-holders, Horses bowled tightly to restrict Sharks score and responded well when battting. Opening century partnership between Amy Gordon [70 runs (from

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two  – match 21

Leicestershire Foxes (women) vs Kent (Horses)(women)(match 21, league two -‘stand-alone’ fixture); at Kibworth Cricket Club (Leics) on 14 June 2026  Kent Horses – pictured bagged a ‘convincing win’  their third win this season. After a relatively slow ‘power-play’(28/2 vs 34/3) Horses lost both openers during their first over; but later discovered two wickets’ advantage by mid-way.

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two  – match 17

Glamorgan vs Kent (Horses)(match 17, league two -‘stand-alone’ fixture); at Spytty Park Newport (Wales) on 7 June 2026  Kent Horses women chased-down 92 runs to claim an eight-wicket shock victory over table-topping Glamorgan women. Key success factors were ’sharp fielding;’ ‘stump-to-stump’ bowling and fewer gifted ‘wides.’ By comparison, scores were level-pegging after six overs power-play

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