Live: Somerset v Yorkshire Women, Vitality Blast
Good afternoon from the Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton, where it's another glorious day for Somerset v Yorkshire in the Vitality Blast. Follow this page for live updates throughout the afternoon as the White Rose bid for their first win at the third attempt.
Yorkshire have been beaten by 39 runs
Yorkshire 129-9, 19 overs
Erin Vukusic has just bowled Holly Garton.
Yorkshire 110-7, 13.5 overs
Maddie Ward bowled Lola Harris, 22.
Bowled reverse sweeping at the leg-spinner.
And she’s bowled Ines Blackwell next ball for nought.
Yorkshire en-route to a defeat here. It will take something very special to turn it around now.
Ria Fackrell joins Beth Langston at the crease.
Kalis 50
Sterre Kalis reaches an excellent 50 off 33 balls with 9x4s.
Yorkshire still alive in this one at 104-4 in the 13th over chasing 178.
Oh no. Hang on.
Kalis has fallen caught at backward square-leg sweeping against Olivia Barnes, 51. It’s 104-5 now.
Yorkshire 86-4, 11 overs
Sterre Kalis has 41 and is keeping Yorkshire afloat here as we chase 178.
She’s just drilled two boundaries down the ground off spin.
Maddie Ward has 10.
Yorkshire 63-4, 8.5 overs
Ami Campbell caught Alex Griffiths bowled Olivia Barnes, 6.
Miscued high to long-on.
Maddie Ward in now alongside Sterre Kalis, who has 28.
Yorkshire chasing 178.
Yorkshire 60-3, 8 overs
Sterre Kalis 25 and Ami Campbell 6.
These two have settled things for Yorkshire, but they have plenty more to do in pursuit of 178.
Yorkshire 29-3, 4.1 overs
Jess Jonassen bowled Erin Vukisic, 17.
Vukusic has just struck with her first ball of seam.
Yorkshire chasing 178, and they’ve lost two wickets in three balls.
Yorkshire 29-2, 3.4 overs
Lauren Winfield-Hill caught Bex Odgers bowled Olivia Barnes, 11.
Oh no! Swept a low full toss to short fine-leg.
Sterre Kalis in alongside Jess Jonassen, 17.
Yorkshire chasing 178.
Yorkshire 22-1, 3 overs
The White Rose, chasing 178, have started brightly despite that Thomas wicket.
Lauren Winfield-Hill has 11 and Jess Jonassen 10.
Yorkshire 1-1, 1 over
Erin Thomas bowled Alex Griffiths, 0.
Thomas looks to pull one angled in at her and it skids on and does for her.
Jess Jonassen in now alongside Lauren Winfield-Hill.
Yorkshire chasing 178
Lauren Winfield-Hill and Erin Thomas opening.
Alex Griffiths has the new ball for Somerset.
Somerset 177-5, 20 overs
Yorkshire will require 178 to win here at Taunton.
Niamh Holland finishes with 41 not out.
A stop start innings, really. Yorkshire managed to keep a lid on things at stages, but when Somerset accelerated they did so with real gusto.
Decent batting conditions, so the game not beyond Yorkshire by any stretch.
Two run outs late on.
Somerset 162-4, 19 overs
Alex Griffiths has been run out coming back for two to deep square-leg.
Niamh Holland has 31.
Somerset 139-3, 17 overs
Anika Learoyd caught Sterre Kalis bowled Maddie Ward, 35.
Hoisted to long-on, smart catch over her head from Kalis.
Somerset 126-2, 16th over
Anika Learoyd 32 and Niamh Holland 4.
Somerset 110-2, 12.1 overs
Sophie Luff stumped Lauren Winfield-Hill bowled Jess Jonassen, 57.
Luff dances down the pitch and looks to go over the off-side, but Jonassen outfoxes her.
Yorkshire really needed that wicket.
Niamh Holland in now alongside Anika Learoyd, who has 20.
Luff 50
Home captain Sophie Luff has played really nicely for her fifty off 30 balls.
She has helped take the Somerset score to 89-1 early in the 11th over.
Somerset 68-1, 7.3 overs
Bex Odgers lbw Beth Langston, 30.
Odgers is trapped in front on the reverse against the extra pace of Langston, who goes full and strikes with her third ball.
Much needed breakthrough for Yorkshire.
Sophie Luff has 35 and has been joined at the crease by Anika Learoyd.
Picture by Allan McKenzie/SWPix.com.
Somerset 50-0, 5 overs
Bex Odgers 23 and Sophie Luff 27.
Luff has just driven three successive boundaries down the ground off Jess Woolston’s seam.
Yorkshire’s bowlers just haven’t got it right yet.
Somerset 35-0, 4 overs
Yorkshire under early pressure as Bex Odgers 21 Sophie Luff 14 get out of the blocks.
Luff hoisted Holly Garton’s leg-spin over long-on an over or so ago.
Five overs, five different bowlers. Now for some Jess Woolston.
And Lauren Winfield-Hill is receiving some treatment having been struck on the hand. She seems to be ok, thankfully.
Somerset 13-0, 2 overs
Bex Odgers has swept and reverse swept boundaries in the opening two overs against Maddie Ward and Ines Blackwell.
Holly Garton into the attack now.
We're underway....
Maddie Ward is bowling to Bex Odgers, who has swept the ball of the match for four.
She then tried to go again next ball and survived an lbw shout.
Yorkshire won it and elected to bowl
Yorkshire – Lauren Winfield-Hill c/w, Erin Thomas, Jess Jonassen, Sterre Kalis, Ami Campbell, Maddie Ward, Beth Langston, Ines Blackwell, Ria Fackrell, Holly Garton, Jess Woolston.
Good afternoon...
It’s a stunner of a day in the West Country ahead of Yorkshire’s clash with Somerset in the Blast, which kicks off at 2.30pm – much warmer down here than it was in the north before setting off this morning.
The White Rose are bidding for their first win from their third game after opening defeats against The Blaze and Surrey over the weekend.
They face a Somerset side who have played two, won one and tied one. They beat Warwickshire at Edgbaston on Sunday having tied with Hampshire – both teams finishing on 159 – at Taunton on Friday.
This the first of 10 remaining games for Yorkshire in the Blast. And whilst it’s by no means must win just yet in terms of the race for a top-four finish and Finals Day qualification, the White Rose can’t really afford to leave it too much longer before they get on the board.
You can read our match preview, with Sterre Kalis, via the link below.
The stream will be embedded at the top of the page shortly before we get going.
Enjoy the day.
