skied into the covers, a simple chance to Norris... who shells it! Oh my, what a finish! That should have been 1 from 1 with a new batter on strike... but instead Cross gets away with a horrid miscue!
Spirit vs N S-Chargers, 24th Match at London, Women's Hundred, Aug 18 2023 - Match Result
N S-Chargers won by 4 wickets (with 1 ball remaining)
The Meerkat Match Hero is Phoebe Litchfield: "So glad we got it done, not the most fluent innings, but a team effort. A dream come true to play here, so to be on the winning side is special. I'm not the biggest hitter so try to hit different pockets on the field. Bess hit the sixes, I just nurdle it around."
Right, the men's match is coming up shortly. Matt Roller is all over that. From myself and Thilak, thanks and goodnight!
5.39pm Well, that was a thriller, albeit an anticlimax at the end there. Superchargers squeak through by the skin of Tara Norris's palms.
Baz: "Rare game where the clear PotM is on the losing side. Doubt if they will give it to her though."
fired in fuller, just beats the off stump! How did that miss!
wider line, and Cross lamps surely the match-sealing boundary through point! Scores level and England's chase heroine does it again
onto the front foot, eases the single down the ground
pace off the ball, and skimmed past the cover fielder! So close to holing out, but it would have taken a blinder from Knight, stretching with an outstretched right hand. Holland sweeps round in the deep but her attempted claw-back deflects off her feet and over the rope. Crucial boundary!
swung hard out to deep midwicket, Wareham wants two but it's just the single
down the pitch to meet the cross-seamer, flicked to the on-side for another single
hacked away, off a leading edge, loops past backward point
Where's the ramp...
low full toss, plonked back past the bowler to long-on
Tara Norris, fresh from that dropped catch, has a chance to atone now
steps across to off, but Wareham holds her nerve, dipping a well-flighted delivery under an expansive swing to leg. The pendulum swings again!
lands the cut this time, but straight to deep point
width outside off, but again Cross can't catch up with the overspin as she misses her cut
width, could have been there for the taking, but Cross gets in a tangle on her cut
outside off, cut to backward point
21 off 15 with three wickets standing becomes 17 off 15 with four... here's Wareham
width, slapped, dropped! Tara Norris at backward point, perfectly placed for the miscued cut, but the ball bursts through her hands and away to the rope! Huge moment
rushed through the pull, top-edged, but not quite enough legs to carry to deep square
74mph, hits the pitch, rises into the hip, Cross can't do anything with that
hits the pitch, scuffs a pull, deep square rushes in to prevent the second
flicked off the toes, superb timing! Scorches across the turf at deep midwicket. Back-to-back boundaries to flick the momentum again!
Filer's final set. Big moment. Could go any of several ways!
bosh! Full length, and dumped back through Glenn's legs, away through long-off. That'll help!
Kate Cross. What price the ramp now?
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Lord's, London | |
Toss | Northern Superchargers (Women), elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2023 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 18 August 2023 - day (100-ball match) |
Umpires | Sue RedfernDRS |
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