Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy: Northern Diamonds beat Southern Vipers for first major trophy
Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy: Northern Diamonds beat Southern Vipers for first major trophy
< /figurine>Rachael Heyhoe Flint T final rophy, Lord'sNorthern Diamonds 215-9: Winfield-Hill 65, Heath 44; Adams 3-34 Southern Vipers 213-9: Adams 70, Bouchier 48; Smith 2-24Northern Diamonds beat Southern Vipers by two pointsMatch scorecard
Lauren Winfield-Hill made 65 of 87 balls as they went 215-9 despite a mini-fall of 114- 1 at 119 -5.
Vipers started slow in response but Maia Bouchier (48) put 81 with Georgia Adams for the third wicket.
Skipper Adams made 70 but was knocked out in the 48th and the Vipers ran out 213 -9 as Diamonds won by two runs.
Vipers - who beat Diamonds in the finals 2020 and 2021 - needed 13 on the last over and six to win or four to force a super over from the final ball, played by Katie Levick (2-44), but Charlotte Taylor could not manage it r only two.
It was a big moment for Diamonds, who had played in three previous Trophy finals and of the Charlotte Edwards Cup 20 times, and lost them all.
And that meant a double disappointment for the versatile Charlie Dean, who played cleanly for the Vipers and hit 32 of 43 balls, on the same court where she suffered a match - ending Mankad's burnout a day earlier as the England lost to India. throw but Winfield-Hill and Linsey Smith opened with a stand of 83 before the latter, on the 27th, managed a comeback...
< /figurine>Rachael Heyhoe Flint T final rophy, Lord'sNorthern Diamonds 215-9: Winfield-Hill 65, Heath 44; Adams 3-34 Southern Vipers 213-9: Adams 70, Bouchier 48; Smith 2-24Northern Diamonds beat Southern Vipers by two pointsMatch scorecard
Lauren Winfield-Hill made 65 of 87 balls as they went 215-9 despite a mini-fall of 114- 1 at 119 -5.
Vipers started slow in response but Maia Bouchier (48) put 81 with Georgia Adams for the third wicket.
Skipper Adams made 70 but was knocked out in the 48th and the Vipers ran out 213 -9 as Diamonds won by two runs.
Vipers - who beat Diamonds in the finals 2020 and 2021 - needed 13 on the last over and six to win or four to force a super over from the final ball, played by Katie Levick (2-44), but Charlotte Taylor could not manage it r only two.
It was a big moment for Diamonds, who had played in three previous Trophy finals and of the Charlotte Edwards Cup 20 times, and lost them all.
And that meant a double disappointment for the versatile Charlie Dean, who played cleanly for the Vipers and hit 32 of 43 balls, on the same court where she suffered a match - ending Mankad's burnout a day earlier as the England lost to India. throw but Winfield-Hill and Linsey Smith opened with a stand of 83 before the latter, on the 27th, managed a comeback...
< /figurine>Rachael Heyhoe Flint T final rophy, Lord'sNorthern Diamonds 215-9: Winfield-Hill 65, Heath 44; Adams 3-34 Southern Vipers 213-9: Adams 70, Bouchier 48; Smith 2-24Northern Diamonds beat Southern Vipers by two pointsMatch scorecard 
