- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR11.1 and how! On a length and right on target, Armitage goes back and the ball beats the inside edge to crash into the stumps! Southern Vipers have the breakthrough. 35/120.6 uppish and she tries to clear the infield but chips it straight to extra cover! Adams makes the breakthrough in her first over! 72/222.2 on a length and it hits the front pad on the knee roll in line with middle! Adams strikes again as the Vipers go bang, bang, bang! 73/421.6 advancing down the wicket, she plays the wrong line as that one goes straight on to strike off-stump! Dobson falls for a four-ball duck and the Vipers have another one! 73/349.2 just outside off, Campbell goes to club that again but she picks out long-off! Emily Windsor takes a comfortable catch and so ends the Diamonds' innings with four balls left 183/1033.2 length ball, Heath goes for a big swipe across the line and it hits the back thigh! Height not an issue as she was just about kneeling down trying to whack that over the leg side 112/534.3 fuller ball on the base of middle stump, and she chips it up directly to midwicket! Gaby Lewis takes a regulation catch as Adams strikes again! 115/634.5 length ball, pitching on middle, Langston tries to get it away to the leg side and it strikes the front pad low and around the line of leg stump by the looks of it. Adams has her fourth! Langston falls for a second-ball duck 115/735.2 fuller ball, right on target as Graham plays and misses, Taylor beats the bat! Diamonds are in all sorts of bother here 116/841.1 back of a length and outside off, Levick slashes at it and gets a thick edge! Carla Rudd, standing up to the stumps to the seamer Tara Norris, swallows the catch! Vipers are well and truly on top 144/9Extras17 (b 1, lb 4, nb 1, w 11)TOTAL183 all out (49.2 Overs, RR: 3.7)Fall of wickets: 1-35 (Hollie Armitage, 11.1 ov), 2-72 (Linsey Smith, 20.6 ov), 3-73 (Leah Dobson, 21.6 ov), 4-73 (Sterre Kalis, 22.2 ov), 5-112 (Bess Heath, 33.2 ov), 6-115 (Jenny Gunn, 34.3 ov), 7-115 (Beth Langston, 34.5 ov), 8-116 (Phoebe Graham, 35.2 ov), 9-144 (Katie Levick, 41.1 ov), 10-183 (Ami Campbell, 49.2 ov)
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.2 oh wow! Length ball angling in onto off-stump, beats Adams' defence and pegs back off stump! A lovely delivery and the Diamonds make early inroads with the valuable wicket of Vipers captain Georgia Adams 0/12.2 and Langston again! Good length, pitching on off and it darts through to knock leg stump out of the ground! The Diamonds couldn't have asked for a better start here 6/216.6 full and floated up outside off, Bouchier lunges at it, misses and Bess Heath whips off the bails! 62/411.4 back of a length and outside off, it rears up a little as Elwiss flashes at it and sends an edge to keeper Bess Heath! Another important wicket for the Diamonds 47/328.1 on a length and angling in, bowls her through the gate and pegs back middle stump! Gunn strikes immediately! 93/534.3 looping onto off stump and she bobbles it up towards cover! Hollie Armitage, diving to her right takes a pearler of a catch! Fantastic fielding and that's a big wicket for the Diamonds 109/634.4 full and pitching on off stump, it raps the front pad in line with middle and off! What a Gunn! She's on a hat-trick! 109/7Extras20 (lb 4, w 16)TOTAL187/7 (49.4 Overs, RR: 3.76)Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Georgia Adams, 0.2 ov), 2-6 (Ella McCaughan, 2.2 ov), 3-47 (Georgia Elwiss, 11.4 ov), 4-62 (Maia Bouchier, 16.6 ov), 5-93 (Gaby Lewis, 28.1 ov), 6-109 (Paige Scholfield, 34.3 ov), 7-109 (Carla Rudd, 34.4 ov)
Match Details
Toss
Northern Diamonds , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Southern Vipers won the 2021 Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy
Season
Match days
25 September 2021 (50-over match)
Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
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