One-Day Cup: Hampshire take top spot

Lancashire completed a Metro Bank Women’s One-Day Cup double over leaders The Blaze at Emirates Old Trafford.

Their win means Hampshire take over top spot in the table after Georgia Adams’ century helped them beat Essex, while there were also wins for Durham and Surrey.

Grace Potts’ 4-37 led an excellent bowling effort by the Lancashire attack on a slow wicket that restricted the visitors to a below-par 222 all out from 48.2 overs, with half centuries by England wicketkeeper Amy Jones and Ella Claridge.

Emma Lamb, the leading run scorer in the competition, boosted her chances of gaining international selection with an excellent 74 in front of the watching England head coach Charlotte Edwards, but three wickets from The Blaze skipper Kirstie Gordon threatened to swing the game the way of the visitors with Lancashire 155-6 after 32 overs.

It took a vital partnership of 71 runs in 15.2 overs between captain Ellie Threlkeld and England all-rounder Kate Cross for the seventh wicket to take Lancashire to a four-wicket victory with 16 balls to spare.

Bryony Smith posted a superb hundred to steer Surrey to a convincing 101-run win over Somerset on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in Taunton.

Leading by example, Surrey’s captain scored 110 from 103 balls, striking 15 fours and one six as the visitors made 306-7 in a contest reduced by rain to 44 overs a side.

Sophia Dunkley raised an attractive 79 from 81 balls and Danni Wyatt-Hodge contributed 44 including eight fours, while Australian spinner Amanda-Jade Wellington returned figures of 4-47.

Chasing a revised target of 317, Somerset came up short in the face of accurate bowling and sharp fielding, being dismissed for 215 in 40.5 overs.