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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 21

Derbyshire Falcons vs Worcestershire Rapids (women) (match 21-L2 – stand alone fixture) at Queen’s Park Chesterfield Cricket Club on Saturday 28 June 2025 (14h30) Clare Boycott’s (pictured) captaincy chalked-up Rapids womens’ first win in this year’s competition, having marked Chesterfield Borough Council’s ‘BRM Chesterfield festival of Cricket’ (28June – 6July) with a ‘very good score.’

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 17

Yorkshire (women) vs Worcestershire Rapids (women) (match 18-L2 double-header fixture) at Leeds (Headingley Stadium) on Friday 27 June 2025 (15h30) Unbeaten Yorkshire women pulled-off a ‘relatively comfortable’ run-chase, chalking-up their fourth successive victory at 20 overs; having won 10-out-of-12 matches across both formats. In contrast, commentators had earlier relished a ‘great encounter’ between ‘David and

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 20

Kent (Horses) vs Gloucestershire (women) (match 20-L2 – stand alone fixture) at The Spitfire Ground St Lawrence, Canterbury on Friday 27 June 2025 (17h30) Match Celebrated Canterbury’s ‘173rd Kent cricket week.’ Commentator described ‘faultless’ captaincy by Liv Daniels, bagging Glos womens’ first win in this year’s competition, also said to be ‘well-deserved.’ After Gloucester’s ’tricky start,’ Bea Willis

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 11

Glamorgan (women) vs Middlesex (women) (match 11-L2 stand alone fixture) at Penrhyn Avenue, Rhos-on-Sea, Colwyn Bay Cricket Club, North Wales on Sunday 15 June Closely contested match during which both skippers made top-score. Opening Glamorgan women’s partnership between Lauren Parfitt [75*runs(from 60 balls) who played a skipper’s innings; and Daisy Jeanes 53(from 21) who scored

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 16

Sussex Sharks (women) vs Kent Horses (women) – match 16 – L2 double-header at 1st Central County Ground Hove on Sunday 22 June Sussex Sharks women out-performed their close rivals, limiting two Kent Horses women batters to reach double-figures. Sharks top-scorer Rachel King made a match-winning ‘fifty’ from twenty-eight balls. Between innings, commentators considered whether

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 14

Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Derbyshire Falcons (women) (match 12-L2 stand alone fixture) at Northamptonshire County Cricket Ground Wantage Road on Sunday 15 June Local Midlands Derby won by Falcons who carried 20-30 runs advantage throughout the low-scoring match. Speaking post-match for Steelbacks, Anisha Patel – pictured mentioned that the spinner’s wicket was ‘used earlier in the week;’ and that

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 12

Gloucestershire (women) v Kent Horses (women) (match 12-L2) – stand alone fixture at Seat Unique Stadium, Bristol  on Sunday 15 June Horses women openers banked 62 runs in their first six-and-a-half overs. By comparison beyond mid-way, Spitfires’ 27-run advantage was retained, as a winning margin. Both teams suffered unfortunate dismissals (Amy Gordon for Horses, and

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league one, match 30

The Blaze (women) vs Lancashire Thunder (women) (match 30, league one – ‘double-header’ fixture) at the Uptonsteel County Ground Leicester on 19 June (14h30) Scoring the  highest individual score for Thunder ‘for this year,’  Scots International Ailsa Lister [79 runs (from 38 balls)] hit nine ‘fours’ and three ‘sixes.’ No other batter hit a ’six.’

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league one, match 32

Durham Cricket (women) vs Essex (women) (match 32, league one – ‘double-header’ fixture) at Banks Homes Riverside Chester-le-Street on Friday 20 June (14h30) Essex women chalked-up their third win in a match where only three Durham Cricket women batters reached double-figures. Essex seamers Esmae MacGregor and Kate Coppack took two wickets each during their first two

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league one, match 29

Somerset women vs Hampshire Hawks women (match 29) at The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton on 19 June (14h00)  Somerset women fell ‘agonisingly short’ of their first Vitality Blast victory. Hawks openers Maia Bouchier partnered by Charli Knott (due to return to Australia) banked 80 for Hawks first wicket. Freya Kemp [65*not out (from 38

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