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
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
Birmingham Bears vs Somerset (match 11, league one ‘double-header’) at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham on Friday, 6 June 2025 (15h00) Bears made an ‘emphatic’ performance, bagging a bonus point to go top-of-table. Post-match, ‘Bears TV’ interviewed congratulated Vertu POTM Australian Laura Harris for her unprecedented achievement, scoring back-to-back ‘fifties’ in less than 20 balls. Aaron Viles
Essex women vs Birmingham Bears women (match 8 league one ‘double-header’) at the Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford on Wednesday, 4 June 2025 (18h00) Essex bagged their second home win in four days following a rain-affected match during which six overs were docked from each innings. When play resumed, Essex batters continued to score faster
Bears vs Durham Cricket women (match 4 league one ‘double-header’) at Birmingham, Edgbaston Stadium on Saturday, 31 May 2025 (15h00) History unfolded as Australian International Laura Harris broke Sophie Devine’s (NZ) long-standing record ‘fastest fifty’ that had stood for ten years. Beyond mid-way (on 72/1) Bears new signing Laura Harris took four overs to score
The Blaze vs Bears women – (match 3 league one ‘double-header’) – on 30 May 2025; at Nottingham, Trent Bridge on Friday 30 May 2025 Both teams first match became a closely-contested Midlands derby. Bears posted a ‘competitive’ score with Charis Pavely made top-score 46 (from 34 balls) and Katie George scoring 37. Blaze skipper Kirstie Gordon
Hampshire women vs Warwickshire women – (match 30) – Arundel, The Castle Cricket Ground on Monday 19 May 2025 (10h30) Hampshire stay top-of-table, until the competition restarts (after the T20s) during late July. Spectators were wrong to expect a whitewash when the visitors lost four early wickets during their ‘power-play’ on 42/4. Warwickshire women’s batter Abbey
Warwickshire women vs Lancashire women – (match 28)- at Birmingham, Edgbaston on Wednesday 14 May 2025 (10h30) Lancashire women won ‘convincingly’ by 100 runs. When batting a foundation was laid by three ‘fifties’ from Emma Lamb 88, Katie MacK 57 and Sophie Ecclestone 50. Warwickshire skipper Georgia Davis 3/45 was ‘pick of bowlers 3/45. Commentators
Warwickshire women vs Somerset women – (match 20) – at Birmingham, Edgbaston on Wednesday 7 May 2025 (10h30) Warwickshire women’s skipper Georgia Davis had guided her side to two wins and a draw from their opening four games. On the day, Somerset women’s skipper Sophie Luff (pictured) posted a ‘magificent’ 111*not out. Together with former England
Durham Cricket women vs Warwickshire women – (match 21) – ay Chester-le-Street, Banks Homes Riverside on Sunday 11 May 2025 (10h30) Having won their first match followed by back-to-back losses ever since, Durham Cricket ‘DC’ needed to lift themselves from seventh-place. In contrast, Warwickshire women started the match as one of the top-three teams. After thirty
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