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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‘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 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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‘Metro Bank’ One Day Cup League Two  – (match 14)

Leicestershire Foxes (women) vs Gloucestershire  (women) – match 14, L2 – at Leicester Uptonsteel County Ground (Grace Road) on Sunday, 10 May 2026 Foxes chalked-up their fourth competition win to date: their first under Lucy Western, standing-in for skipper Becki Brooker – pictured. Gloucs women still waiting to open their account, albeit having beaten Foxes women

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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 16

Sussex Sharks (women) vs Leicestershire Foxes (women) (match 16 – ‘double-header’ fixture)  at The 1st Central County Ground, Hove on 5 June 2026  Thriller with result decided by the final ball. With little to choose between each team, there were many similarities between each innings. No batter scored ‘fifty,’ three batters scoring into double figures;

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