Yorkshire Women beat Durham Women by six wickets in the 41st match of the ECB Women’s One-Day Cup at the Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street, on June 17. Chasing 194, Yorkshire reached the target in 47.3 overs, with 15 balls to spare, after spinners Sarah Glenn and Jess Jonassen had earlier wrecked Durham’s batting line-up.
Durham won the toss and chose to bat first, but slipped to 64 for six inside 18 overs. Glenn, playing her first match of the season after recovering from a broken finger, and Jonassen, the competition’s leading wicket-taker, shared five wickets between them, all of them bowled. Durham eventually posted 193 all out in 49.4 overs, with Grace Thompson top-scoring before a late rally from the lower order.
Glenn and Jonassen Trigger Durham Top-Order Collapse
Glenn removed Hollie Armitage, Mady Villiers and Emily Windsor, all dismissed playing back to deliveries that beat their defence. Jonassen struck twice in quick succession, bowling Heather Graham and Bess Heath. Ines Blackwell also chipped in early, getting Mia Rogers caught and bowled, and later returned to yorker Abigail Glen. Between them, the bowlers reduced Durham to 131 for nine, leaving the innings in danger of finishing well short of 150.
Glenn finished with three for 40 from her 10 overs, while Jonassen conceded just 18 runs in her 10 overs for two wickets, figures that kept Durham under constant pressure through the middle overs.
Thompson and Tail-Enders Lift Durham to 193
Opener Emma Marlow made 39 before Durham’s middle order folded, and Thompson built the recovery with a 40 that included a six pulled off Glenn. Marlow and Thompson added 40 runs before Marlow was caught at midwicket off Claudie Cooper, and Thompson was run out shortly after at 104 for seven.
The most significant resistance came from the last pair, Trudy Johnson and Katie Levick, who put on 62 runs for the final wicket. Johnson finished unbeaten on 32, and Levick made 31 before being caught and bowled by Maddie Ward. Both scores were career-best List A totals for the players, with Levick’s mark also a best across all forms of senior cricket. The stand was the highest tenth-wicket partnership recorded in the competition over the past two seasons, lifting Durham from a poor position to a defendable 193.
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Winfield-Hill and Thomas Guide Yorkshire to Six-Wicket Win
Yorkshire lost Ami Campbell early, caught off Johnson for 13 after the team had promoted her to open the innings. Captain Lauren Winfield-Hill and 19-year-old Erin Thomas then built a 122-run partnership that settled the chase. Winfield-Hill reached fifty in 90 balls and went on to make 65 before being caught at cover off Thompson. Thomas continued past her own fifty, also her first at Tier 1 level, finishing with 67 before she was bowled by Villiers at 171 for three in the 42nd over.
Jonassen fell for 16 to Marlow’s off-spin as Yorkshire closed in on the target, but Alice Clarke and Ward saw the innings home without further loss. The win was only Yorkshire’s third in nine matches this season, while Durham suffered their fifth defeat in 10 games, leaving their title hopes under pressure.
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