Hampshire Women v Essex Women
Metro Bank One Day Cup
Utilita Bowl, Southampton
Sunday 11 May 2025 | 10:30am start
Team News
Essex Women: Grace Scrivens (c), Lissy Macleod, Cordelia Griffith, Jodi Grewcock, Flo Miller, Sophia Smale, Amara Carr (wk), Eva Gray, Esmae MacGregor, Kate Coppack, Abtaha Maqsood.
Hampshire Women: Ella McCaughan, Maia Bouchier, Charli Knott, Georgia Adams (c), Rhianna Southby (wk), Abi Norgrove, Nancy Harman, Linsey Smith, Freya Davies, Bex Tyson, Lauren Bell.
Match Details
Umpires: James Tredwell and Julia Jarvis
Match Referee: Sarah Bartlett
Toss: Essex Women won the toss and elected to bowl
Match Reaction: Grace Scrivens
“I am pleased to be contributing and scoring runs, but it is just frustrating that they aren’t get us over the line. It is a bit gutting.
“It was a good cricket pitch where if you played good strong cricket shots it got you rewards, and then the outfield flew away.
“It is never ideal when two of your best batters go down [Cordelia Griffith and Flo Miller], and cannot bat. I think we did an okay job with the players that came in, but we are disappointed not to get over the line with the platform we set.
“Flo is waiting on some scans and stuff but hopefully Cords [Cordelia Griffith] won’t be out for too long.
“We lost wickets at key points. When you have to go at five and a halves you want to get there and stay there, and we allowed it to climb up more than we wanted to in periods. They bowled well so credit for them.
“I don’t think we are far away and we’re getting better in every game. We are a young group and still learning, developing and getting better. We put in a strong performance with the bat so hopefully we are not far away from a complete performance.”
Match Highlights
Match Report
Georgia Adams won the battle of the century-making captains as Hampshire beat Essex by 17 runs in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup women’s competition.
Hampshire’s Adams 110, with assistance from Rhianna Southby’s 61 and Ella McCaughan’s 44, helped her side to a healthy 273 for five.
Essex skipper Grace Scrivens replied with a classy 101, her second ton in successive innings, to put herself firmly in the frame for England selection.
But left-arm spinner Linsey Smith took four for 33 to give Hampshire their fourth victory in six matches to remain amongst the pacesetters, while Essex remain rooted to the bottom of the table.
Maia Bouchier zoomed off with four boundaries in a 12-ball 19 but two quick Kate Coppack wickets punctured Hampshire’s fast start, having been put in.
Bouchier had her off stump flattened before Charli Knott tickled behind to Amara Carr to leave Hampshire 32 for two.
But McCaughan continued her magnificent form, which started with Manly in Australian Grade Cricket over the winter and carried on in the One-Day Cup with scores including 64, 133 not out and 57.
She rebuilt with an initially scratching Adams – who was dropped on 28 at midwicket – before missing a sweep to get pinned lbw by Abtaha Maqsood, six runs shy of a fourth 50-plus score.
That stand of 72 was merely the amuse bouche for the innings-defining 144 that Adams added with Southby.
Everything the pair did was done with the lowest of risk as they barely let the run-rate dip below five an over with crafty batting.
Adams became the final member of Hampshire’s top five to record a fifty this season, doing so in 77 balls, before Southby followed to the milestone – for the second time this year – in 68 balls.
Southby was bowled with seven overs to go, with the latter stage of the innings coming with the sub-plot of ‘can Adams get to three figures?’ She was on 82 when Southby departed.
Abi Norgrove gamefully rotated the strike until she was run out, with Adams still eight runs away, but a pair of offside boundaries drew the bat raise out of Adams.
The innings, which had showcased all her trademark effortless swinging and placement, came in 125 deliveries and was her fourth in List A cricket. She ended up unbeaten on 110, and Hampshire just above par on 273, with Nancy Harman replicating Norgrove’s earlier endeavour.
Scrivens was supreme from the off, showing complete control over where her shots were going. The innings wasn’t built around big shots, but constant accumulation.
Her top-order all rolled with her. Lissy MacLeod was brisk in her 25 – adding 47 for the opening stand – before Jo Gardner came in.
Gardner wasn’t in the starting XI, but fielded the majority of the innings after Flo Miller injured herself trying to stop a boundary in the second over, before formally entering the match after Cordelia Griffith suffered a concussion while fielding.
She took her chance by keeping the scoreboard ticking in a 71-run alliance with Scrivens, but departed for 23 when she slapped to mid off.
Jodi Grewcock followed on, scoring at over a run-a-ball but only scoring three boundaries, in her 33, with 70 runs added with the accelerating Scrivens.
She chipped to cover with 86 still required, with Essex stumbling as the required rate climbed, and Smith gained complete control of the game and put herself at the top of the leading wicket-takers in the One-Day Cup.
Eva Gray, Scrivens, Coppack and Esmae MacGregor were caught, and Amara Carr stumped, all trying to keep the visitors in touch, but they fell 17 runs short.
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