Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league one match 22

Hampshire women vs Essex women – (match 22) – at Southampton, The Utilita Bowl Stadium on Sunday 11 May 2025 (10h30) Commentators were impressed by Hampshire women who proved to be the ‘slightly stronger side.’ Both skippers scored centuries. Hampshire’s skipper Georgia Adams (pictured) made top-score: [110*not out runs (from 130 balls)]; adding 114 runs when

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Source: Julian Thompson

Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league one match 24

Somerset women vs Surrey women  – (match 24)- at Taunton, The Cooper Associates County Ground on Sunday 11 May 2025 (10h30) Surrey women won ‘quite convincingly,’ by a 100-run margin. Surrey skipper Bryony Smith [110runs(from 103 balls)] played a skipper’s innings in difficult conditions. England’s Sophia Dunkley [79(from 81)] also made ‘fifty.’ International All-rounder Amanda-Jade

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Source: Julian Thompson

Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league one match 26

Surrey women vs The Blaze women – (match 26) at County Ground, Beckenham on Wednesday 14 May 2025 (10h30)  With level-pegging scores for most of the match, all eyes were on unlikely match hero Dani Gregory, the tail-end bowler-turned-batter who scored the decisive ‘single’ to square the match; having previously bagged a 3-fer (taking 3

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Source: Julian Thompson

Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 11

Derbyshire Falcons women vs Yorkshire women – match 11, L2 – at The Incora County Ground Derby on Saturday 3 May 2025 (10h30) Described by commentators as a ‘massive’ day in Derbyshire’s cricketing history. Falcons women’s first home match turned into a ‘David vs Goliath’ contest between the inexperienced hosts as ‘under-dogs’; and the visitors

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 10

Gloucestershire women vs Glamorgan women – match 13, L2 – at  Seat Unique Stadium Bristol on Saturday 3 May 2025 (10h30) Both teams started the season full of optimism, each bagging their historic first home team win (19 April); but weren’t so lucky when losing their second-round ties. On the day, Glamorgan women posted three hundred

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 12

Kent women vs Leicestershire Foxes women – match 12, L2 – The Spitfire Ground at St Lawrence near Canterbury in Kent on Saturday 3 May 2025 (10h30) Kent women have much work to do to pick themselves up following their poor run-of-form’ and inconsistent performance between opening tier-two matches. Previously boosted by bagging their first

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Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league two match 14

Northamptonshire Steelbacks women vs Middlesex women – match 14, L2 – at Northampton County Ground (Wantage Road) on Saturday 3 May 2025 (10h30) Middlesex women remain unbeaten as they cruised home win by four wickets in a one-sided low-scoring match. Previously, both teams were unbeaten in their first two matches. For Middlesex, Gayatri Gole had

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Source: Julian Thompson

Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league one match 7

Somerset vs Lancashire women at Taunton (The Cooper Associates County Ground) on Sunday 27 April 2025 (10h30) Lancashire women chalked-up their second-straight-win, previously both teams having won their opening matches. Commentators lauded younger batters who were given a chance to step-up once Lancashire spinners (Hannah Jones 2/23, Emma Lamb 2/30) both took wickets with ‘stump-to-stump

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Source: Julian Thompson

Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league one match 9

Lancashire women vs Hampshire women – (match 9) at Southport, Birkdale (Trafalgar Road) on Wednesday 30 April 2025 (10h30)  The hosts staged an impressive opening partnership of 185 between Eve Jones 107 runs (from 134 balls) and Emma Lamb: on a ‘batter’s wicket’ with ‘little on offer’ for bowlers. Once Emma Lamb departed, three batters

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Source: Julian Thompson

Metro Bank One-Day Cup – league one match 10

Surrey women vs Durham Cricket women – (match 10) County Ground, Beckenham Wednesday 30 April 2025 (10h30)  Headline England batter Sophia Dunkley (pictured) [(92 runs (from 94 balls)] partnered by Alice Capsey [79 runs (from  balls)] shared a match-winning century partnership of 155 runs. According to commentators, that resulted in a one-sided ‘heavy defeat’ for Durham

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