Ladies’s Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup remaining, Trent Bridge
Hampshire 251-9 (50 overs): McCaughan 78, Kemp 52; Higham 4-49, Phillips 3-38
The Blaze 254-7 (50 overs): Beaumont 74, Elwiss 64; Wellington 3-36
The Blaze win by three wickets
Emma Jones sealed The Blaze’s treble success with a dramatic last-ball boundary to win an exhilarating One-Day Cup remaining and shatter Hampshire’s hopes of silverware.
The Blaze, who had already gained the T20 Blast and County Cup trophies this season, gave the impression to be coasting in direction of their goal of 252 after half-centuries from Tammy Beaumont (74) and Georgia Elwiss (64) on the Utilita Bowl.
However Hampshire’s spinners fought again, with Amanda-Jade Wellington taking 3-36 and Bex Tyson 2-46 as 4 wickets went down for 29 to go away the Blaze needing 30 from the ultimate three overs.
Nevertheless, Jones stored her cool with an unbeaten 34 from 25 balls and, with two nonetheless required from Daisy Gibb’s remaining supply, pulled it to the boundary to clinch a outstanding treble for her facet.
That meant heartbreak for Hampshire on house soil for a second successive 12 months, having misplaced the 2025 remaining to Lancashire.
Requested to bat after Blaze captain Kirstie Gordon gained the toss, Hampshire began slowly however Ella McCaughan and Maia Bouchier step by step eased into their rhythm to share a gap stand of 84 from 106.
