South East Stars win again to extend their lead at the top

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South East Stars made it three wins from three in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy as Ryana MacDonald-Gay's 4-18 helped her team. to a 71-run Duckworth-Lewis-Stern win over Central Sparks.

The Maidstone-born seamer took her season tally to 12 wickets after Paige Scholfield (65) and Tash Farrant (54) had given the Stars a winning platform at Beckenham.

Hannah Baker finished with a career-best 5 to 45 as the hosts faltered from 230-3 to 268 overall.

But it proved far beyond the Sparks, who never seriously recovered from falling from 56-2 to 58-6, before reaching 119-6 when the game was abandoned.

The Southern Vipers won two wins from three to complete a winning start to the season for the Northern Diamonds.

Ella McCaughan hit a half-century - 83 from 97 balls - to surpass the 1,000 runs for the Vipers, as Charli Knott continued her good start to life in the UK with 40 – as the hosts made it 287-9 at Southampton.

Charlie Dean then took 4-34 as Diamonds stuttered in response as Lauren Winfield-Hill (63) and Erin Burns (45) took them to 162-7 - 70 points short of the DLS target of 232.

Western Storm picked up their first win after beating Thunder by 66 points. at Old Trafford.

Storm made it 252-6 from their 50 overs after a superb exhibition of spin bowling from Sophie Ecclestone (3-16) threatened to derail their innings, with Sophie Luff making an unbeaten 76.

That proved enough as Thunder calmed down to 186 from 42.4 overs with Sophia Smale and Chloe Skelton taking three wickets each.

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