Essex Women v Somerset Women
Vitality Blast
Ambassador Cruise Line Ground, Chelmsford
Sunday 01 June 2025 | 12pm start
Team News
Essex Women: Lauren Winfield-Hill (wk), Grace Scrivens (c), Lissy Macleod, Cordelia Griffith, Maddie Penna, Jo Gardner, Sophia Smale, Eva Gray, Kate Coppack, Esmae MacGregor, Abtaha Maqsood.
Somerset Women: Bex Odgers (wk), Amelie Munday, Enna Corney, Fran Wilson, Sophie Luff (c), Alex Griffiths, Amanda Jade-Wellington, Chloe Skelton, Ellie Anderson, Mollie Robins, Olivia Barnes.
Match Details
Umpires: Rose Dovey & Chris Watts
Match Referee: Helen Pack
Scorers: Helen Hyde & Polly Rhodes
Toss: Somerset won the toss and elected to bowl
Result: Essex Women won by 65 runs
Match Reaction
Match Highlights
Match Report
Esmae MacGregor claimed career-best T0 figures as Essex’s bowlers ripped through the Somerset batting line-up to secure their side’s first win of the Women’s Vitality Blast at Chelmsford.
The Essex medium-pacer finished with four for eight from 3.2 overs, while leg-spinner Abtaha Maqsood took two for 16 as the visitors were rolled for just 84, with Fran Wilson their only batter to reach double figures.
Somerset had looked strongly-placed at halfway after seamer Ellie Anderson’s three for 19 restricted their opponents to 149 for seven, opener Lauren Winfield-Hill top-scoring with 42 from 25 balls.
Anderson struck with her first delivery after Somerset had won the toss and inserted their hosts, uprooting Grace Scrivens’ middle stump to set the tone with two tight powerplay overs.
The seamer should have snapped up another early wicket, spilling a return drive from Lissy Macleod, while Winfield-Hill swept Chloe Skelton for successive boundaries as the pair added a brisk 45 from 33.
But Olivia Barnes’ acrobatic catch at square leg, leaping to grab the ball one-handed at the second attempt, removed Macleod and Alex Griffiths castled Winfield-Hill in the next over to leave Essex under pressure.
Amanda-Jade Wellington’s miserly spell of two for 21 maintained control, but Sophia Smale – dropped early on by Mollie Robbins – provided some impetus with 22 from 18 before she was eventually bowled trying to ramp the medium-pacer.
Jo Gardner (20 from 22) and Eva Gray both cleared the ropes during the death overs to haul their side to fractionally short of 150 – a total that looked far more challenging for Somerset after they lost four wickets in the powerplay.
Dropped at slip first ball, Bex Odgers was then caught behind slashing at Kate Coppack and Emma Corney swung at Scrivens and missed before Amelie Munday skied MacGregor into the hands of mid-on.
Skipper Sophie Luff also fell cheaply, cleaned up by Gray’s inswinger, but the experienced Wilson started strongly with successive fours off Coppack and was looking nicely set with 25 from 19 when she perished top-edging a sweep off Maqsood.
The leg-spinner also accounted for Griffiths before diving forward at mid-on to pouch Anderson’s drive off MacGregor and Somerset’s last faint hope of a fightback evaporated when Wellington holed out to long leg.
With Barnes unable to bat after sustaining an injury in the field, the contest ended in the 15th over as MacGregor has Skelton caught at mid-off to secure the ninth Somerset wicket – and her fourth.
Purchase your Essex Double Header tickets!
Our next double header at the Ambassador Cruise Line Ground comes against Hampshire Hawks and Glamorgan on Thursday 12 June.
The Essex Women will face Hampshire Hawks Women at 2:30pm before the Men take on Glamorgan at 6:30pm.
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