Tie At Edgbaston As Somerset, Durham & Lancs Win

Durham, Somerset and Lancashire each won successful nan One-Day Cup arsenic nan revamped apical formation of nan women's home play sewage nether way.

Meanwhile a melodramatic crippled astatine Edgbaston saw Warwickshire necktie pinch Hampshire pursuing a last-ball tally retired for nan Bears.

Another lucifer that went down to nan last transportation was betwixt Surrey and Somerset.

With some innings reduced to 33 overs because of rain, Somerset chased an adjusted target of 238 to triumph by 7 wickets.

Heather Knight, batting for nan first clip since being removed arsenic England captain successful March, led nan measurement for Somerset pinch 64 and they scored 18 disconnected nan last complete to unafraid victory.

New Zealand opener Suzie Bates made an unbeaten 93 successful Durham's nine-wicket triumph complete Essex, while England batter Emma Lamb scored a superb 130 not retired arsenic Lancashire chased down 235 to hit The Blaze by 8 wickets.

The 8 top-tier sides will title nan One-Day Cup and T20 Blast and nan ECB has called it "the adjacent shape successful nan improvement of women's cricket".

Bates is arguably 1 of nan biggest names successful women's cricket having scored much than 10,000 runs for New Zealand.

And nan 37-year-old demonstrated her people connected debut, scoring freely connected some sides of nan wicket arsenic Durham chased down Essex's 177 each retired pinch small trouble.

Captain Hollie Armitage provided good support, making 64 not out, arsenic nan brace put connected an unbroken 173 for nan 2nd wicket.

Having taken 3 wickets, Lancashire opener Lamb past became nan first batter to people a period successful this season's title arsenic nan visitors made ray activity of The Blaze's 234 each retired astatine Trent Bridge.

The Blaze looked good placed astatine 146-2, but Lamb's 3-42 and Hannah Jones' 3-38 restricted nan hosts, contempt an innings of 70 from Scotland's Kathryn Bryce.

Katie Mack (44) and Seren Smale (38 not out) some provided good support for Lamb arsenic Lancashire chased down their target pinch 5 overs to spare.

In Birmingham, Hampshire posted 208 arsenic wicketkeeper Rhianna Southby apical scored pinch 72.

England brace Linsey Smith (4-39) and Lauren Bell (2-44) looked to person group up triumph for Hampshire erstwhile they reduced Warwickshire to 189-9, still needing 20 to win.

Last-wicket brace Georgia Davis and Hannah Baker took nan scores level pinch 1 shot left, but Davis was tally retired attempting nan azygous required.

At Beckenham, Surrey's innings was delayed by rainfall but they managed to station 243-7 disconnected their 33 overs. Alice Davidson-Richards apical scored pinch an unbeaten 57 disconnected 47 balls.

Knight and 21-year-old Emma Corney (61) shared an opening guidelines of 122, but erstwhile some went successful nan abstraction of 3 overs nan required run-rate began to climb.

Needing 15 disconnected Davidson-Richards' past over, Fran Wilson (36 not out) pulled nan past shot for 4 to unafraid a thrilling victory.