Anya Shrubsole claims 4 to arrange up mad scramble for final two Finals Day locations
Southern Vipers 144 for six (Adams 42*, Levick 2-12) beat Northern Diamonds 128 for 9 (Tryon 30, Shrubsole 4-18) by 16 runs
Southern Vipers recovered from 49 for five batting first earlier than defeating Northern Diamonds at Headingley, helped by Anya Shrubsole‘s 4 wickets to arrange up a mad scramble for the remaining two locations at subsequent Saturday’s Finals Day.
Heading into Wednesday’s remaining day of group fixtures, the Vipers, Diamonds, Thunder and Western Storm are all nonetheless in rivalry to affix the already certified Blaze. Thunder host Diamonds and Vipers host Sunrisers.
A characteristic of this fixture was early wickets in each innings. The Vipers, having elected to bat, misplaced 5 wickets inside 9 overs earlier than recovering to 144 for six. The Diamonds then slipped to five for 3 earlier than being stumbling to 128 for 9.
Youth and expertise ensured the Vipers leap-frogged the Diamonds into second place within the desk on 17 factors.
Nancy Harman hit a regional finest 32 not out off 19 balls from No. 8 in her tenth competitors senior look in orange. In defence, England seam legend Shrubsole struck thrice with the brand new ball, eradicating key duo Lauren Winfield-Hill and Hollie Armitage and ending with an outstanding 4 for 18.
England batter Maia Bouchier seemed robust on either side of the wicket as she hit 5 boundaries in a 16-ball 24 on the high of the order. However, the Vipers misplaced common wickets by means of the primary half of the innings, slipping to 38 for 3.
Bouchier was the third to fall when she lobbed Grace Hall as much as cowl. Hall, a slingy seamer with variations aplenty, has loved a formidable competitors to this point. The 20-year-old took her tally of wickets to 10 in six video games – her first appearances in senior regional cricket. After getting Bouchier, she compelled Freya Kemp to play a yorker onto her stumps, leaving the Vipers 5 down.
From there, the Vipers had been compelled into an innings rebuild. And they did a wonderful job on a pitch used for a Vitality Blast recreation between Yorkshire and Derbyshire earlier within the day.
The restoration was led by captain Georgia Adams, who shared 43 with Emily Windsor and an unbroken 52 with Harman. The latter two had been each priceless contributors – Windsor with a measured 25 and Harman with 4 fours earlier than she lofted the final ball of the innings over long-on for six off Abi Glen.
Windsor had been bowled advancing at leg-spinner Katie Levick, who had earlier trapped Georgia Elwiss lbw on the best way to a formidable 2 for 12 from 4 overs.
Harman was definitely essentially the most damaging Viper on present with the bat, whereas Adams was busy. The momentum they created was then constructed upon by Shrubsole, whose second ball within the second over – a great thing about an inswinger – ripped out Winfield-Hill’s off-stump.
The different opener, Leah Dobson, then miscued to mid-on on the finish of identical over earlier than Armitage chipped to cowl within the fourth.
Then got here a counter-attack from England hopeful Bess Heath, who crashed two fours and three sixes in 26 off 12 balls, taking the rating to 46 within the seventh over earlier than falling lbw to Mary Taylor’s seam.
From there, Sterre Kalis and South African abroad all-rounder Chloe Tryon shared 53 inside eight overs to place their aspect again within the hunt, the latter making 30 off 20 balls because the rating moved to 99 for 4 within the fifteenth over.
But they had been a part of one other damaging collapse of three wickets to fall for six runs. The medium tempo of Elwiss accounted for Tryon caught at cowl and Katherine Fraser at midwicket within the fifteenth over earlier than Shrubsole returned to get Kalis caught at mid-off for 32 because the rating fell to 105 for 7 within the sixteenth.
Another fightback seemed a protracted shot, and so it proved. Scott was stumped off Adams’ off-spin. Then, with 22 wanted off the final over from Taylor, Levick was run out amid an in any other case eventless over.