Lauren Winfield-Hill, Katie Levick assist steer Diamonds previous Sunrisers
Northern Diamonds 160 for five (Winfield-Hill 51, Villiers 3-42) beat Sunrisers 157 (Grewcock 50, Levick 3-23) by 5 wickets
Lauren Winfield-Hill maintained her outstanding Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy document with one other commanding half-century to place Northern Diamonds again on observe as they noticed off Sunrisers by 5 wickets.
The Diamonds opener handed 50 for the eighth time in her final 10 innings within the match to make sure the defending champions – defeated by Central Sparks on Saturday – responded with a complete win at Chelmsford.
Seam duo Lizzie Scott and Jessica Woolston laid the foundations with two wickets apiece earlier than legspinner Katie Levick‘s 3 for 23 ensured Sunrisers have been bundled out for 157, regardless of Jodie Grewcock‘s second half-century of the match.
Winfield-Hill then top-scored with 51 from 43 balls and Bess Heath struck an unbeaten 32 from 25, because the guests chased down their goal with 21.3 overs to spare.
Scott and Woolston, opening the assault after Diamonds had misplaced the toss and surprisingly been invited to bowl in overcast circumstances, established management as they made the ball swing from the beginning. Woolston introduced one again to uproot Cordelia Griffith’s off stump in her second over after which discovered motion in the other way to clip the bails and decide up the prize scalp of Grace Scrivens for 11.
Mady Villiers departed for a second-ball duck, clipping Scott to the diving Katherine Fraser at midwicket and, when Saskia Horley’s pull off Abi Glen flew straight to Hollie Armitage, Sunrisers have been deep within the mire at 32 for 4.
Grewcock and Jo Gardner dug in for a concerted rebuilding marketing campaign in the course of the center overs, clawing their approach again into the sport with a spirited fifth-wicket partnership of 65. Gardner had simply begun to open up, drilling Fraser again previous the stumps for an remoted boundary, when she miscalculated a Chloe Tryon supply and was bowled for 32 – after which Sunrisers’ innings hit the buffers once more.
Teenage left-hander Grewcock, having battled exhausting to finish her half-century from 91 balls, was then caught behind off the 93rd – the primary of two wickets in three deliveries for Levick.
Kate Coppack’s breezy unbeaten 16 not less than hauled Sunrisers above the 150 mark earlier than they have been bowled out with 4 overs unused – however the whole by no means seemed like one they might defend with any diploma of confidence.
Winfield-Hill instantly set the tone for Diamonds’ response, slamming Coppack to the midwicket boundary twice contained in the opening over as she and Sterre Kalis constructed a belligerent partnership of 53. Coppack’s luck appeared to be out, with Kalis edging her simply over the stumps for 4, and it was Sunrisers skipper Kelly Castle who finally achieved the breakthrough, trapping the opener in entrance with a slower supply.
With Winfield-Hill hanging the ball confidently and Armitage in no temper for warning, as she cracked Abtaha Maqsood to the rope 3 times in her first over, Diamonds gave the impression to be coasting in direction of their goal.
They have been held up by Villiers, whose wily offbreaks introduced her figures of three for 42 – the trio of victims together with Winfield-Hill and Armitage, who till then had been extremely efficient towards the slower bowlers in her knock of 30 from 32. However, Heath clubbed Villiers over long-on for the primary six of the match – after which flayed the second off Eva Gray to seal Diamonds’ victory in type.