27/07Result
1st Semi-Final, Vitality Blast Women at London, Jul 27 2025
WAR Women won by 20 runs
Player of the Match
Issy WongWarwickshire Women
27/07Result
1st Semi-Final, Vitality Blast Women at London, Jul 27 2025
WAR Women won by 20 runs
Player of the Match
Issy WongWarwickshire Women

3.25pm So, the inaugural Women's Blast final will be a repeat of the inaugural Men's Twenty20 Cup final in 2003. Surrey versus Warwickshire, all getting underway at about 4.30pm. This one was effectively done and dusted in Issy Wong's first over, when Tammy Beaumont and Kathryn Bryce fell for ducks in consecutive balls. Georgia Elwiss battled hard for her fifty, but it wasn't to be, especially once Millie Taylor had got to work on the middle-order. Sarah Glenn had a good allround game for the Blaze, but Wong is the runaway player of the match after her hard-hitting fifty in partnership with Sterre Kalis.

19.1
W
Wong to Ballinger, OUT, Wonderful catch from Kumar to seal the Bears' place in the final! Got good hold of it, hoisted out through the leg-side from round the wicket, but not quite enough. Wong mops up with her fourth of a stellar spell

G Ballinger c Surenkumar b Wong 1 (2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50

Wong is back, with 20 needed for a Super Over

END OF OVER:
19 | 8 Runs 1 Wkt | BLZ-W: 143/9 (21 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 7.52, RRR: 21.00)

  • Cassidy McCarthy1 (2b)
  • Grace Ballinger1 (1b)
  • Em Arlott4-0-35-2
  • Georgia Davis2-0-22-1
18.6
0
Arlott to McCarthy, no run,
18.5
1
Arlott to Ballinger, 1 run,
18.4
W
Arlott to Gordon, OUT, walks way too far across her stumps, and another one bites the dust! The last rites are upon us

KL Gordon b Arlott 15 (10b 2x4 0x6) SR: 150

18.4
1w
Arlott to Gordon, 1 wide,
18.3
4
Arlott to Gordon, FOUR, good use of the crease, timed to perfection at short third, as Gordon gave herself room to pick off the boundary
18.2
1
Arlott to McCarthy, 1 run,
18.1
1
Arlott to Gordon, 1 run, hauled down to deep square leg

END OF OVER:
18 | 7 Runs 1 Wkt | BLZ-W: 135/8 (29 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 7.50, RRR: 14.50)

  • Kirstie Gordon10 (7b)
  • Georgia Davis2-0-22-1
  • Em Arlott3-0-27-1
17.6
W
Davis to Elwiss, OUT, down the track, and stumped! She had to keep coming, but Davis did her in flight, and Wraith whipped off the bails. That feels like game, set and match

GA Elwiss st †Wraith b Davis 53 (45b 8x4 0x6) SR: 117.77

17.5
4
Davis to Elwiss, FOUR, lumped through deep midwicket! Elwiss reaches her fifty with another boshing stroke. Eight fours
17.4
1
Davis to Gordon, 1 run, a big wallop, looked good to the naked eye, but off the toe of the bat and didn't have the legs
17.3
1
Davis to Elwiss, 1 run,
17.2
0
Davis to Elwiss, no run,
17.1
1
Davis to Gordon, 1 run,

END OF OVER:
17 | 8 Runs | BLZ-W: 128/7 (36 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 7.52, RRR: 12.00)

  • Georgia Elwiss48 (41b)
  • Kirstie Gordon8 (5b)
  • Em Arlott3-0-27-1
  • Millie Taylor4-0-20-3
16.6
0
Arlott to Elwiss, no run,
16.5
4
Arlott to Elwiss, FOUR, tickled away very fine! Elwiss or bust for the Blaze, and she's still going strong...
16.4
0
Arlott to Elwiss, no run, a real mix-up in the running, just about back in time!
16.3
1
Arlott to Gordon, 1 run,
16.2
2
Arlott to Gordon, 2 runs, rushes back for two, makes it just in time... the umpires are checking but no-one is interested

BLZ Women 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st2TT BeaumontM Kelly
2nd0M KellyKE Bryce
3rd55GA ElwissM Kelly
4th17GA ElwissH Graham
5th12GA ElwissSJ Bryce
6th3GA ElwissEC Claridge
7th25GA ElwissS Glenn
8th21GA ElwissKL Gordon
9th7KL GordonCM McCarthy
10th1CM McCarthyG Ballinger