Metro Bank One Day Cup Women 2025 :Division I Matches Live on May 7: Coverage, Scores & Match Reports

The Metro Bank One Day Cup Women 2025 - Division I continues with a full slate of matches on May 7, delivering live action from across England. 

Metro Bank One Day Cup Women's 2025 Division 1: Hampshire vs Durham; Lancashire vs Surrey; Warwickshire vs Somerset –  Predictions May 7

Hampshire Women vs Durham Women,  Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I, Arundel Castle Cricket Club Ground, Arundel

Durham 190/8 lost to Hampshire 193/3 by seven wickets 

Maia Bouchier and Charli Knott made light work of chasing down 191 as Hampshire beat Durham with a bonus point in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup women’s competition.

Bouchier crashed 53 – her third half-century of the summer – as she continued to rebuild her confidence after a difficult winter with England.

Knott oozed class for her first half-century of the One-Day Cup as Hampshire knocked off the runs three down with 74 balls to spare.

Earlier, Phoebe Turner had top-scored with 38 but Hampshire’s spinners – led by two for Knott and incredibly economical spells for Linsey Smith and Bex Tyson – stifled Durham and kept them to an under-par total.

Durham chose to bat but lost Emily Marlow within the first five overs as Lauren Bell beat her for pace and cannoned into her off stump.

Suzie Bates showed more fluency than any of her team-mates that followed but her 26 off 28 balls – ended when she pulled Bell to midwicket – began a trend of starts but no substantial scoring.

The reason: the pressure built by Linsey Smith and Hampshire’s suffocating spinners.

Mady Villiers and Hollie Armitage showed restraint to giving their wicket away for 92 balls, but could only add 40 runs before Villiers was caught and bowled by Smith and Armitage missed a sweep and was castled by Bex Tyson.

Smith eventually returned an incredibly economical one for 25 in her 10 overs, while fellow left-armer Tyson was marginally more expensive going for one for 29.

But it was off-spinner Charli Knott who was rewarded with wickets as she pinned Leah Dobson leg-before and bowled Katherine Fraser with a bail trimmer.

Bess Heath’s patient 31 and Phoebe Turner’s 38 – which largely came in an innings high 42-run stand – gave the total a boost, with anything north of 200 promising to cause a challenging chance.

Heath fell with six overs to go when she sliced another spinner – Georgia Adams – to short third, while Turner was run out, with the visitors reaching 190 for eight.

Ella McCaughan ended a run of 64, 133 not out and 57, when, having already been dropped, was bowled by Fraser with the third ball bowled by a spinner in the second innings.

But Bouchier and Knott showed off their international pedigree with two innings of high quality.

Durham’s spin trio of Fraser, Villiers and Katie Levick were negotiated with ease, with a mixture of finding the gap and powering the ball to the boundary.

The biggest difference was their use of the feet, which opened up more gaps than the Durham batters had managed.

They both brought up half-centuries within four balls of each other, Bouchier first in 61 balls before Knott followed in 47 – with eight fours.

Neither could get the job done, with Bouchier failing to clear mid off and Knott was lbw, but Adams and Rhianna Southby knocked off the remaining 32 runs together to make it three wins from five.

Hampshire fast bowler Lauren Bell:

“It ended up being a good toss to lose. We bowled pretty well and kept them to a low score and the batters did the job. They were pretty under par there.

“Bouchier and Knott went about it exactly as they should have, they didn’t take any risks and give many chances and just ticked it off comfortably.

“I feel in a good place. It was trickier for the seamers out there especially with the new ball, it was very slow. We just had to hit the stumps and be boring.

“I’m absolutely loving it. I feel like a real part of the team playing this much cricket. When you are in and out you can often feel like a spare part.

“I prefer bowling my overs in games. I’m fit and have no injuries so I’m happy playing a lot of cricket before the international matches.

“The way I’m going to get better is by playing under pressure in competitive games. I’m loving that Charlotte Edwards has come in and let us play.”

Durham head coach Dani Hazell:

“I think it is obvious we didn’t get enough runs on the board and we just have to take our medicine.

“We battled hard on both sides but it wasn’t enough runs and you are chasing the game throughout. We have to dust ourselves off and go again.

“If we won the toss again, we would bat again. It simply comes down to not getting enough runs on the board. You aren’t going to win many games with 190.

“We know it is about individuals standing up and taking responsibility for their own game, and as a team we need to keep pushing ourselves forward.

“Credit to them, they bowled really well, but it is the job of the batters to problem solve and counter punch.”

Lancashire Women vs Surrey Women, Match 19, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I, Trafalgar Road Ground, Southport, Southport

Metro Bank One-Day Cup women's competition: Lancashire 299-5 beat Surrey 296-8 by five wickets.

By Graham Hardcastle, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay

Fi Morris and Katie Mack posted excellent scores of 90 not out and 84 as Lancashire reeled in a 297-target to beat Surrey by five wickets in an entertaining Metro Bank One-Day Cup women’s competition contest at Southport and Birkdale Cricket Club.

Australian Mack came in with the Red Rose at 53 for one in the 11th over of a response to Surrey’s 296 for eight, which included a composed 100 off 102 balls from Alice Davidson-Richards.

Lancashire ended a run of two defeats to win for the third time this summer as England seamer Kate Cross returned three for 55 from 10 overs and opener Eve Jones made 52.

When Mack fell to a brilliant one-handed Alice Monaghan catch at cover off Davidson-Richards’ seamers, Lancashire were 208 for four after 35 overs with the game in the balance. But Fi Morris finished things off with two overs remaining. 

Surrey’s have now won one and lost four. They had to cope without England regular Sophia Dunkley because of a niggle, while two more batting big guns in Alice Capsey and Danni Wyatt-Hodge fell early. Paige Scholfield also contributed 87.

There were two key fourth-wicket partnerships in a match played on a used pitch that proved excellent for batting.

In advancing from 50 for three in the 11th over having elected to bat, Surrey had two players who put the opposition bowlers and fielders under pressure at every opportunity as England fringe all-rounders Davidson-Richards and Scholfield shared 143.

Later, Mack and Fi Morris came together with the hosts 124 for three in the 24th over of their chase and did exactly the same, sharing 84. 

There was a stunning one-handed catch at cover taken in both innings.

But Davidson-Richards had earlier been dropped on 87 before moving to her third career senior century off 101 balls. Lancashire opener Jones was latter dropped on 11.

Lancashire made a bright start. Cross struck twice with the new ball to get Bryony Smith acrobatically caught at cover by a diving Emma Lamb off a leading edge and Capsey bowled having played on. Both fell for one.

When Wyatt-Hodge, on 21, sliced left-arm spinner Sophie Morris to point, Surrey were three wickets down early.

But Davidson-Richards and Scholfield turned things around to give their side what looked like a commanding total, with their running between the wickets a real feature.  

Davidson-Richards regularly hit over the top against spin, contributing 10 fours. 

Scholfield fell first with Surrey just short of 200, but Davidson-Richards remained until the penultimate over when the visitors were close to 300.

Lancashire openers Lamb and Jones lead this competition’s leading run-scorer’s list with 331 and 315 respectively. They have shared first-wicket partnerships of 34, 151, 185,106 and - here - 53 inside 11 overs.

Seamer Monaghan removed both. And when Dani Gregory’s leg-spin bowled Seren Smale, Lancashire were 124 for three in the 24th over and some way from home.

Enter Mack and Morris, who also ran superbly between the wickets. But they also found the boundary regularly enough. Mack hit nine fours and a six in 64 balls.

When she fell, at 208 for four after 35 overs, Morris made sure no momentum was lost. She reached a run-a-ball fifty and dominated a match-clinching fifth-wicket stand of 85 unbroken with captain Ellie Threlkeld, who contributed 25.

Morris finished with 10 fours in 76 balls

Warwickshire Women vs Somerset Women, Match 20, Metro Bank One Day Cup Women Division I, Edgbaston, Birmingham

By Brian Halford, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay

Somerset, 297 for six, beat Warwickshire, 249 all out, by 48 runs.

Somerset banked their third successive Metro Bank One-Day Cup women’s competition victory with an emphatic 48-run win over Warwickshire at Edgbaston.

Somerset totalled a solid 297 for six thanks to captain Sophie Luff’s accomplished unbeaten century - 111 from 105 balls - which built on Heather Knight’s punchy 70 (93 balls) up top. Em Arlott profited from late-innings profligacy to finish with four for 61.

Warwickshire’s reply came in short at 249 all out after early impetus from Sterre Kalis (60, 49) was followed by a middle-order implosion of five wickets for 14 runs in 30 balls. Alex Griffiths, Amanda-Jade Wellington, Chloe Skelton and Charlie Dean each took two wickets to squeeze the chase into submission.

After Warwickshire chose to bowl, they were kept waiting for a breakthrough on a good batting pitch. Knight launched the innings with a flurry of fours but was overtaken by the increasingly fluent Emma Corney (37, 56) in an opening stand of 74 in 100 balls.

Corney sliced Hannah Baker to mid-off but Luff and Knight added 79 before the former moved outside off-stump to lap Charis Pavely and lapped the ball on to the wicket.

Luff, driving sweetly, galloped to a 60-ball half-century in a stand of 118 in 90 balls with Fran Wilson (37, 37) which ended when Wilson lifted Arlott to deep extra. That was the first of four wickets in 11 balls for Arlott as Wellington edged an attempted cut and, in the final over, Charlie Dean edged a slog and Griffiths was caught at mid off. Luff was left unbeaten, having hit 17 fours in a true captain’s innings.

It was a strong total but by no means daunting on a good pitch, and Kalis and Amy Freeborn gave Warwickshire’s reply a purposeful start with a stand of 77 in 61 balls before both fell to Australian leg-spinner Wellington. Freeborn’s anchor role ended when she was caught at deep mid-wicket. Kalis, having hit 11 fours, missed an attempted cut and was bowled.

Davina Perrin (37, 54) and Katie George (28, 41) built a promising alliance of 50 but the chase was derailed by a spectacular collapse of wickets in five successive overs. George and Natasha Wraith were adjudged lbw to full-length balls from Griffiths. Skelton removed the dangerous Perrin, caught at deep point, and Bethan Ellis, who chipped to short fine leg. Pavely sought a single that wasn’t there and was run out from extra cover by Knight.

Dean venged herself on Arlott was hitting her off-stump and, though Georgia Davis accumulated a run-a-ball half century, her departure, lifting Dean to mid on, sealed a resounding defeat for her team.

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