Birmingham Bears (women) vs Hampshire Hawks (match 23, league one – ‘stand-alone’ fixture) Sunday 15 June at Edgbaston Stadium Bears chalked-up their third win from three games played-to-date. Match-winning opening partnership between Meg Austin [51 runs(from 38 balls)] and Davina Perrin 30(22) came from their first six overs of power-play. Partnered by Meg Austin (misreported elsewhere
Somerset (women) vs Durham Cricket (women) (match 25, league one – ‘stand-alone’ fixture) at The Cooper Associates Ground, Taunton on Sunday, 15 June 2025 Durham Cricket women chalked-up their second win from six matches played, despite Somerset women scoring their highest ‘league one’ score at 20 overs. Commentators felt that Somerset ‘lost their way’ beyond
Essex women vs Hampshire Hawks women (match 20, league one – ‘double-header’) Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford on Thursday, 12 June 2025 Leading run-scorer Ella McCaughan [106 runs (from 60 balls)] made history at least three times: firstly becoming the first women to score a ‘Vitality Blast T20 century.’ Secondly Ella McCaughan partnered by Charli Knott
Surrey women vs The Blaze women (match 19 league one) – ‘stand-alone’ fixture at the Kia Oval (Kennington) on Wednesday, 11 June 2025 Batting first, Blaze openers Georgia Elwiss (who made top score) and Marie Kelly banked 93 runs (from 57 balls) or Blaze, until – approaching mid-way – a difference-of-opinion left both batters stranded
Durham Cricket (women) vs Birmingham Bears (women) (match 18, league one – ‘double header’ fixture) at Banks Homes Riverside Chester-le-Street, on Wednesday, 11 June 2025 Mady Villiers (on three-year Durham Cricket contract, with 20 England caps-to-date) put on an impressive show of batting, chalking-up her season’s-best score [85*not out runs (from 56 balls).] Openers Davina
Durham Cricket (women) vs The Blaze (women) (match 21, league one – ‘stand-alone’ fixture) Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street on Friday, 13 June 2025 Home team commentators lauded Durham Cricket ‘DC’ women who ‘gave everything’ for their mammoth score of 188. Elation became ‘Friday-the-thirteenth’ heartbreak when The Blaze chased-down that score – a feat that had
Somerset women vs Lancashire Thunder women (match 22, league one – standalone) at The Cooper Associates County Ground Taunton on Friday, 13 June 2025 A record-breaking crowd of 3000 spectators turned-out to watch Somerset women play against Lancashire on ‘Friday-the-thirteenth.’ Batting first, mustering 85/6 with less than five overs remaining, Somerset women depended upon Amanda-Jade Wellington’s
The Blaze vs Essex women (match 12 league one ‘double-header’) at The Central Co-Op County Ground Derby on Friday, 6 June 2025 Commentators announced that ‘it was all happening at Derby’ when two Blaze players became injured during Essex women’s power-play. Blaze strike bowler Grace Ballinger was escorted away with a pulled ham-string after bowling
Surrey vs Durham Cricket women (match 17 league one – ‘double-header’) at at the Kia Oval, Kennington South London on Sunday, 8 June 2025 Commentators gave ‘full marks’ for a ‘pleasing all-round performance’ by top-of-table Surrey women (with bat, ball and also in-the-field) as the only undefeated team. Hollie Armitage played a ‘skipper’s innings’ for
Birmingham Bears vs Lancashire Thunder women (match 16 league one – double header) at Birmingham, Edgbaston Stadium on Sunday, 8 June 2025 Commentators lauded both teams for staging a gripping match: said to be a ‘great advertisement’ for the competition, ‘with superb fielding.’ Apart from the final ball, commentators found it difficult to separate the
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