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

Vitality Blast women T20 – league  two, match 30

Worcestershire Rapids (women) vs Leicestershire Foxes (women) (match 30, league two double-header fixture) at Visit Worcestershire New Road on Sunday, 13 July 2025 at 10h30 ‘Rapids women beat Foxes in a low-scoring thriller that Rapids won convincingly both with bat-and-ball. Foxes arrived with triple back-to-back wins, also having previously beaten Rapids at Home. An extraordinary

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Source: Julian Thompson

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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Source: Julian Thompson

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 13

Leicestershire Foxes (women) vs Worcestershire Rapids (women) (match 13-L2 – double-header fixture) at Leicester (Uptonsteel County Ground) on Sunday 15 June 2025 Foxes women successfully chased down Rapids women’s par score, before their home crowd with two overs to spare. Foxes opener Francesca Sweet [67*not out (from 53 balls)] scored her season’s best ‘fifty’ with

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Source: Julian Thompson

Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 9

Worcestershire Rapids women v Northamptonshire Steelbacks women (match 9, league two women’s ‘double-header’) at Visit Worcestershire New Road on Sunday 8 June 2025  Playing the second half of the first women’s back-to-back double-header, Rapids did well to pick themselves up from their first match defeat to ‘go again’ and this time were proud to produce

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Vitality Blast women T20 – league two, match 8

Worcestershire Rapids women v Derbyshire Falcons women (match 8, league two women’s ‘double-header’) at Visit Worcestershire New Road on Sunday 8 June 2025 Falcons women batters were made to ‘work hard’ for their first win. Challenged to play both ‘double header’ matches on the same-day, under Rapids women skipper Clare Boycott (for 20-overs) partnered by

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