Source: Julian Thompson

Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 34

Worcestershire Rapids women vs  Derbyshire Falcons women  – (match 34, league two) at Wolverhampton Cricket Club, Wolverhampton on Sunday 17 August 2025 (10h30) Rapids women proved their worth to qualify for the up-coming semi-finals in fourth place, sending Falcons to a ‘crushing’ defeat. Previously, Falcons suffered a similar scenario when at the start of the season,

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Source: Julian Thompson

Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 35

Northamptonshire Steelbacks women vs Sussex Sharks women (match 35, League two) – at Horton House Cricket Club, Horton (Northamptonshire) on Sunday 17 August 2025 (10h30) Steelbacks women received a boost to their semi-final qualification chances, staging a dramatic turn-around that saw both teams lost all their wickets, playing on a pitch that ‘turned.’ POTM bowler

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 31

Gloucestershire women vs Yorkshire (White Roses) women  – (match 31, League two) –  at Bristol, Seat Unique Stadium on Saturday 16 August 2025 (10h30) Yorkshire White Roses women are on-track as the fourth team destined to qualify for the semi-finals. Their ‘crucial encounter’ made top-scorer [undefeated with 98 runs] Ami Campbell – pictured  ‘happy and relived.’ Yorks

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 33

Leicestershire Foxes women  vs Middlesex women  – (match 33, League two) – at  the Upton Steel County Ground Leicester,  on Saturday 16 August 2025 (10h30) Unbeaten Middlesex women booked their semi-finals place, during a match dominated by a batting masterclass between Middlesex women’s skipper Saskia Horley [114 runs (from 105 balls)] who scored 13 ‘fours;’

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 29

Sussex Sharks women vs Leicestershire Foxes women   (match 29, league two)- at Arundel, Arundel Castle Cricket Ground cricket festival on Saturday 9 August 2025 (10h30) Sussex Sharks women ‘kept their hopes alive’ to qualify for the up-coming semi-finals. Looking to create ‘scoreboard pressure’ by positing more than 250, only one Sharks batter scored ‘fifty’

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 30

Yorkshire women vs Glamorgan women – (match 30, L2)  at Weetwood Playing Fields, Leeds on Saturday 9 August 2025 (10h30) Yorkshire women suffered their third defeat from six matches played-to-date, bowled-out for a second back-to-back defeat. Commentators became concerned that chances for a ‘top-four finish’ to qualify for the semi-finals were jeopardised with key Yorkshire

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 26

Gloucestershire women vs Worcestershire Rapids women – (match 26, league two );  at Bristol, Seat Unique Stadium on Saturday 9 August 2025 (10h30) Billed as a ‘crucial encounter’ for Gloucestershire women, said to be on-track to qualify as one of four teams destined to play the up-coming semi-finals. By comparison, Rapids women had won their

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 27

Kent (Horses) women vs Northamptonshire Steelbacks women – (match 27, league two) – at the County Ground, Beckenham on Saturday  9 August 2025 (10h30) After losing three power-play wickets to Emily Carpenter’s left-armed seam, Megan Sturge [40 runs (from 65 balls)] partnered by Elsa Barnfather 26(from 50) added 55-runs for the Kent (Horses) womens fourth wicket,

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 21

Glamorgan (women) vs  Leicestershire Foxes (women) – (match 21, league two) – at Neath CC, Neath (South Wales) on Saturday 2 August 2025 (10h30) Both teams had much in common as beaten semi-finalists from the 20 overs contest, whereas second-placed Glamorgan women are playing a series of ‘must-win’ matches to qualify as semi-finalists from at 50

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