On the morning after the night before for Nat Sciver- Brunt's calf, and with England's male football players apparently getting ready for some competition or other, the ladies what cricket were at it again in the One Day Cup.
Bottom-dwellers Lancashire toppled the table-toppers The Blaze; Hampshire annihilated Essex, Somerset produced the 40 balls of the season and Yorkshire took the spoils in the Northern derby.
Here is how the games worked out......
Durham v Yorkshire
Durham 193 ao lost to Yorkshire 194/4 by 6 wickets
Durham only made it to a lowly 193 courtesy of a tenth wicket partnership of 62 between Trudy Johnson (32*) and Katie Levick (31). It never looked like being enough runs once Lauren Winfield-Hill (65) and Erin Thomas (67) serenely took Yorkshire past 140 only one wicket down. Both perished thereafter, but Yorkshire stuck to the task to claim their third victory of the year and consign Durham to their fifth defeat.
Essex v Hampshire
Essex 245 lost to Hampshire 246/0 by 10 wickets
Hampshire may have been disappointed to have allowed Essex to post 245, having been 112/6, but Essex's recovery showed how good the wicket really was. Number 8 Liberty Heap hit an aggressive 75 and Jo Gardner 56.
Hampshire need not have worried as openers Maia Bouchier (136*) and Ella McCaughan (104*) were rarely troubled, as Hampshire cruised to a 10 wicket victory within 40 overs. The only doubt was whether McCaughan would join her opening partner in hitting a 100, but, with passive assistance from Bouchier, she scored 18 of the last 19 runs required to win to post her own century.
Lancashire v The Blaze
Lancashire 239 ao beat The Blaze 211 ao by 28 runs
The Blaze at 159/4 looked to have their ninth victory nicely sown up, with Tammy Beaumont (64) and Prisha Thanawala (39) apparently in full control of the chase. Lancs had made hard work of setting 239 in the first place with the top 8 all making double figures, but only Seren Smale (51) and Fi Morris (57) going on beyond 50.
But suddenly Beaumont missed a straight ball from Jones, Ella Claridge dragged a legside delivery onto her own stumps and Thanawala tamely holed out at mid-on. The Blaze, who have escaped some scrapes this season were in another one at 173/7. This time there was no saving the points for The Blaze as they were bowled out in the 48th over for a much-needed victory for a beleaugured Lancs team.
Somerset v Warwickshire
Warwickshire 160 ao lost to Somerset 161/3 by 7 wickets
I don't think anyone saw the remarkable passage of play coming that took Warwickshire from a commanding 151/2 in the 27th over to 160 all out just 43 balls later. Openers Amu Surenkumar (58) and Georgia Redmayne (32) had laid the initial platform and Meg Austin (17) had helped take Warwickshire beyond 100, but when leg-spinner Lola Harris enticed Surenkumar to sweep the ball straight to Ellie Anderson at square leg Warwickshire's worst nightmares were about to become a reality.
Harris accounted for Pavely for a duck and left arm spinner Olivia Barnes bowled Katie George (31) with a peach; Freeborn was bowled by Harris; Taylor was run out by keeper Katie Jones' direct hit from 25 yards; Davis pulled Barnes to deep square; Stonehouse drove Harris to short cover and finally Baker dragged Barnes back onto her own stumps.
Lola Harris finished with 4/32 and Olivia Barnes 4/24.
Shell-shocked Warwickshire did what they could with the ball, but Anika Learoyd's comfortable 70* guided Somerset to a victory that will live long in the memory.
Martin Davies
18/VI/2026
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