Northern Superchargers 127 for 4 (Heath 57) beat London Spirit 122 for 7 (Luff 39, Davidson-Richards 2-20) by 5 runs
Northern Superchargers claimed their first victory of the momen’s Hundred as they edged out London Spirit by 5 runs at Headingley.
Heath got here to the crease after each Superchargers’ imposing openers had fallen early. Jemimah Rodrigues was bowled by Freya Davies for two and Alyssa Healy was dismissed for an explosive 22 off 16 together with an enormous six over the lengthy-on boundary.
After a interval of stagnation the place runs and bounds dried up, Heath made her transfer, smashing Amelia Kerr for 3 consecutive boundaries. Heath adopted up by clubbing Megan Schutt for 11 runs off her set of 5, mentioning the 50 partnership between herself and Laura Wolvaardt, of which she had scored 41.
Fielding errors began to creep in for Spirit beneath Heath’s assault, Luff misjudging a catch at deep backward sq. leg and spilling a second 10 balls later at cowl, permitting Heath’s pyrotechnics to proceed. Heath whacked a floaty supply from Charlie Dean over the longest boundary for a six after passing 50.
Heath’s innings lastly got here to an finish after she mistimed a half-tracker from Grace Scrivens straight into the arms of Natasha Wraith at positive leg, leaving the sphere to a becoming ovation from the group.
Wolvaardt, who appeared nearly caught in quicksand on the different finish, lastly hit her first boundary off her twenty seventh supply, ending with 24 off 29 within the Superchargers’ whole of 127 for 4, a rating that in close to-good batting circumstances appeared nicely beneath-par.
Mooney then appeared able to demolish the goal, contemporary from her ladies’s Hundred document 97 not out towards Southern Brave in Spirit’s earlier match.
Mooney hit three fours within the first 10 balls, and after advancing to 30 of 20 balls, a shocking bit of labor from Healy behind the stumps introduced her innings to a untimely finish. A mixture-up between the batters gave Healy the chance and she or he picked the ball up excessive to her left above her head and threw down the stumps leaving Mooney in need of her floor.
Gibson adopted her again to the dugout the very subsequent ball and the baton was handed to Kerr who appeared nicely set to information her facet to victory till she fell for 20 after failing to clear the lengthy-off fielder.
Despite a cameo from Luff, who hit an unbeaten 39 from 30 balls, which included an enormous six over cow-nook, Spirit nonetheless wanted 13 off the final 5. Their hopes ended off the penultimate supply when Dean was caught at cowl off Davidson-Richards.
Katya Witney is an ECB Hundred Rising Reporter