Bears Women v Essex Women
Metro Bank One Day Cup
Edgbaston Community Sports Ground | Birmingham
Sunday 07 September 2025 | 10:30am start
Team News
Bears Women: Meg Austin, Bethan Ellis, Amu Surenkumar, Davina Perrin, Abbey Freeborn, Nat Wraith (WK), Issy Wong, Georgia Davis (C), Hannah Hardwick, Hannah Baker, Phoebe Brett.
Essex Women: Grace Scrivens (C), Ariana Dowse, Jodi Grewcock, Sophia Smale, Flo Miller, Jo Gardner, Eva Gray, Amara Carr (WK), Sophie Munro, Esmae MacGregor, Abtaha Maqsood.
Match Details
Umpires: Neil Bainton & Mohammed Waseem
Match Referee: Alec Swann
Scorers: CL Hughes & H Vernon
Toss: Bears Women won the toss and elected to bowl first
Result: Essex Women won by 27 runs DLS method.
Match Reaction: Grace Scrivens
“We started nicely with the bat and then after the rain delay, the way we batted was excellent. It was a great cameo from Soph. That partnership in the last few overs gave us a real boost and great momentum when we went out to bowl. There was some really clean ball-striking to get us up to a good total.
“Then we bowled well and especially smartly to the short boundary. With such a short boundary, a set batter is very dangerous and hard to contain so it was important to keep taking wickets and we did that.
“It was a really strong team performance. We probably have not played our best cricket at points this season and have been unlucky at other points. Our batters showed what they can do today and got us up to a good score. That meant we didn’t have to search too much for wickets which has probably been a bit of our downfall in the past. The bowlers did really well.”
Match Highlights
Match Report
Essex secured some belated joy from their disappointing Metro Bank Women’s One-Day Cup campaign with a 31-run (DLS) victory over Warwickshire at the Edgbaston Community Sports Ground.
Put in, the visitors totalled 235 for seven from 32 overs either side of a long rainstorm which arrived in the 13th over. Jo Gardner top-scored with 47 (34 balls) while Bears captain Georgia Davis took four for 35.
Facing a revised DLS target of 232 from 32 overs, Warwickshire mustered only 204 for eight in murky light despite an accomplished maiden half-century from 18-year-old Amu Surenkumar (56, 54). Her team-mates were unpicked by an attack led by Abtaha Maqsood (three for 34) and Esmae MacGregor (three for 38) as Essex recorded only their second win in 12 50-over games this season.
On a gloomy morning at Portland Road, Essex got off to a flier as opening batters Ariana Dowse (36, 44) and Grace Scrivens added 67 from 61 balls before falling in successive overs just before the rain. Scrivens chipped Phoebe Brett to mid off before Dowse nicked a waft at Davis to wicketkeeper Nat Wraith.
After a lengthy interruption, Essex resumed with only 32 overs now at their disposal and again lost wickets in consecutive overs. Sophia Smale lifted Hannah Baker to long off and Fiona Miller missed a sweep and was lbw to Davis.
Jodi Grewcock (39, 34) and Gardner restored some momentum with a stand of 69 in 49 balls before Davis hit Grewcock’s middle stump through an attempted cut. Six balls later, Warwickshire’s captain was at long off to take a catch sent up by Gardner off Surenkumar who repaid her skipper in the next over by catching Eva Gray at long off to supply Davis’ fourth wicket.
Essex needed some late impetus and Sophie Munro (36, 19) and Amara Carr (17, 12) provided it with a punchy unbroken stand of 55 from the last 29 balls.
Warwickshire’s reply began briskly with a stand of 40 in six overs between Meg Austin and Bethan Ellis but they both fell, bowled and lbw respectively, to lovely, flighted deliveries by Maqsood. Munro quickly followed up with the big wicket of Davina Perrin who chopped to backward point.
Surenkumar and Abbey Freeborn added 52 in 50 balls before the latter walked across her stumps to sweep MacGregor who hit the exposed timber. Much depended on Surenkumar who hit a six and five fours on her way to a run-a-ball half-century but when she swung Maqsood to deep mid-wicket, Warwickshire’s lower order needed to find 73 from 44 balls. The departure of Issy Wong, who lifted Munro to long leg, left Essex to ease home to victory.
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