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I would check her bank account

I can't seem to face up to the facts I'm and nervous and I can't relax.

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In a rather convincing drubbing The Blaze lost to Hampshire to create a kinda must win but not really game against Essex.

Losing the toss and being put into bat The Blaze got strangled by Hampshire bowlers ( I missed the first 8 overs so I'm going off Cricinfo here)

With Sarah Bryce getting out caught by Ella McCaughan off the bowling of Daisy Gibb ( who looks a very good bowler at least from what I have seen off her) for 3 to leave The Blaze after 5/1 after 2.1 overs

Kathryn Bryce then joined Tammy Beaumont in the middle and together they put on the largest partnership for The Blaze today with a 90 run partnership before K Bryce was out bowled by Amanda Jade Wellington for 36

Georgia Elwiss joined Beaumont for a 19 run partnership before Elwiss got out in what seemed to be the manner in which The Blaze's batters decided they were going to get out and that was bringing out the wrong golf club and giving the fielders basic catching practice as she was caught by Poppy Tulloch off the bowling of Bex Tyson for 12

Orla Prendergast joined Beaumont for 18 runs before Beaumont was out caught Tulloch bowled Tyson for 56

Emma Jones joined Prendergast for 7 runs before Prendergast was out caught by Freya Kemp off the bowling of Tyson to leave The Blaze 139/5 after 30.1 overs

Kirstie Gordon joined Jones and together they had a 57 run stand before Jones was bowled Tulloch for 26

Lucy Higham was the next batter in and had a 17 run stand with Gordon before Gordon was out caught Kemp bowled Tulloch for 37

Josie Groves was the next batter and together with Higham put on a 36 run partnership that took The Blaze to 249 and the end of the innings with at least something to bowl at

Lucy Higham finished on 34*

Josie Groves finished on 7*

Pick of Hampshire's bowlers was Bex Tyson who finished her ten with figures of 3/40 an economy of 4.00 she was also the most economical

The second most economical was Poppy Tulloch who finished her seven with figures of 2/29 an economy of 4.14

Daisy Gibb who I gave a shout out to earlier in the post finished her ten with figures of 1/44 an economy of 4.40

Hampshire's batting started as it finished in complete control of the innings with the only thing in consideration being could The Blaze stop the Bonus point

McCaughan and Maia Bouchier opened the batting with a 98 run partnership before McCaughan obviously feeling sorry for The Blaze's bowlers gave them her wicket out of nowhere getting herself caught and bowled by Groves for 40

Abi Norgrove joined Bouchier and they put on a 116 run partnership before Norgrove was out caught S Bryce off the bowling of Grace Ballinger

Freya Kemp was the next batter to join Bouchier for a 15 run partnership before Bouchier was out caught by Michaela Kirk ( in as a sub fielder) off the bowling of Cassidy McCarthy for 118 to leave Hampshire on 229/3 after 37.2

Rhianna Southby joined Kemp and together they knocked off the remaining 21 in quick time with Hampshire reaching the target of 250 in 39.5 overs

The pick of The Blaze's bowlers was Cassidy McCarthy who finished her 7.5 with figures of 1/24 an Economy of 3.06 this made her the most economical bowler for The Blaze

The second most economical was Kirstie Gordon who finished her nine with figures of 0/46 an economy of 5.11

Hampshire have got themselves in first place but they have to see if Essex can beat The Blaze on Friday to see of they go straight to the Final, any other result or lack of result will see The Blaze straight into the final.

The Blaze got completely outplayed in this game and to quote the Skipper Kirstie Gordon " Bouchier played superbly and was well assisted by those around her. We have been fairly beaten today"

In the last home game of the season and the final ever home game as The Blaze, The Blaze beat Somerset in relatively comfortable fashion to secure a bonus point ensuring they only need a singular point to progress to the final

Winning the toss The Blaze put Somerset in to bat in what seemed like a difficult pitch to bat on as Somerset struggled during the powerplay scoring 22 runs off the 10 overs for the loss of 2 wickets ( Bex Odgers caught by Prisha Thanawala off the bowling of Grace Ballinger for 2 and Emma Corney caught by a rather good diving catch from Sarah Bryce off the bowling of Charley Phillips for 4)

Sophie Luff and Niamh Holland showed some resistance in a partnership worth 66 runs before Luff was out stumped by S Bryce off the bowling of Kathryn Bryce for 52 to leave Somerset 81/3

Holland then partnered with Jess Hazell for 35 runs before Holland was bowled by Kirstie Gordon for 32

7 balls and 5 runs later Hazell was out caught by Phillips off the bowling of Gordon for 20 to leave Somerset 121/5

This left Katie Jones and Alex Griffiths as the batters in the middle and the put on a 23 run partnership before Jones was out stumped by S Bryce off the bowling of Lucy Higham for 11

Griffiths was then joined by Jasmine Westley and together they put on a 20 run partnership before Westley was caught by Tammy Beaumont off the bowling of Higham for 5 to leave Somerset 164/7

Chloe Skelton was the next batter in and with Griffiths put on a 20 run partnership before Skelton was bowled by Higham for 8

Ellie Anderson joined Griffiths in the middle for a 7 run partnership before Griffiths was out bowled by Higham for 38

The last batter in was Lola Harris who was out bowled for a 2 ball duck by Ballinger meaning Somerset finished on 192/10

Ellie Anderson finished 4*

Pick of The Blaze's Bowlers was Lucy Higham who finished her 9 with figures of 4/28 an economy of 3.11

The most economical of The Blaze's bowlers was Charley Phillips who finished her 8 with figures of 1/19 an economy of 2.37

In reply with the bat The Blaze opening with Tammy Beaumont and Prisha Thanawala got off to a quicker start with 6 off the first over before Thanawala was out caught by Bex Odgers off the bowling Ellie Anderson for 4

Kathryn Bryce was the next batter in and she was also the next batter out caught behind by Katie Jones off the bowling of Anderson for 2 to leave The Blaze 9/2 after 3 overs

Georgia Elwiss was the new batter and together with Beaumont put on a grindy 44 run partnership before Elwiss was caught by Odgers off the bowling of Jasmine Westley for 23 to leave The Blaze on 53 after 15 overs

Sarah Bryce joined Beaumont and together they put on a 52 run partnership before Beaumont was out caught by Jess Hazell off the bowling of Chloe Skelton for 39

Emma Jones joined S Bryce and together put on an 88 run partnership that took The Blaze over the line in 38.3 overs

Sarah Bryce finished on 54*

Emma Jones finished on 53*

Pick of Somerset's bowlers was Ellie Anderson who finished her 7 with figures of 2/34 an economy of 4.85

The most economical bowler was Alex Griffiths who finished her 3 with figures of 0/9 an economy of 3.00

The Blaze's last two games are against Hampshire and Essex and as long as they either beat Hampshire or lose without conceding the bonus point they will be straight through to the final on Wednesday

Lose with Hampshire taking the bonus point all they need is one point against Essex to reach the final.

We are boned aren't we?

We have brainwashed Skynet successfully and have given Skinner a new nickname

She has all this money to spend but can't be bothered to hire a good kit designer?

Like the saying goes I guess in that money can't buy taste.

( Still waiting on Sir Jim the rat to say something stupid about the women's team here okay)

Hopefully she doesn't get screwed over by Gus Trenor

( legitimately the only thing I have seen Gillian Anderson in is an adaptation of House of Mirth)

In a rain effected day at Old Trafford, The Blaze came out on top first against Essex in a 5 over game then Surrey in a 13 over game.

The opening batters for Essex where Grace Scrivens and Lissy Macleod

The Blaze winning the semi final toss elected to bowl first and restricted Essex to a powerplay score of 11 ( it was a 1.3 over powerplay)

And in the first ball of the third over Scrivens was out caught and bowled by Grace Ballinger for 15 leaving Essex 18/1 the new batter Jodi Grewcock though with the remaining balls in the over they scored 8 to take their score to 26/1

The fourth over was taken by Kirstie Gordon who Essex struggled to hit in the over with her first 4 balls going for five runs before bowling Grewcock for 3 to leave Essex 31/2

the next batter in was Liberty Heap who scored 1 off the final ball of the over to take Essex to 32/2

Charley Phillips took the last over and with the first ball of the over she took the wicket of Heap who was caught by Tammy Beaumont for 1 to leave Essex 32/3

the new batter was Jo Gardner and together with Macleod they scored 11 runs off the final 5 balls to drag Essex to 44.

Lissy Macleod finished on 18*

Jo Gardner finished on 7*

The pick of The Blaze's bowlers was Kirstie Gordon who finished her only over with figures of 1/6 an economy of 6

Grace Ballinger finished her two with figures of 1/16 an economy of 8.00

Charley Phillips finished her two with figures of 1/22 an economy of 11

In reply The Blaze opened with Emma Jones and Beaumont and together during the powerplay they scored 18 runs

The second over bowled by Kate Coppack altogether went for 18 runs with 8 of them being four byes granted the byes were a little bit of riding her luck in the context of Jones who was taking some rather swashbuckling swings at the balls in a Eroll Flynn tribute act

The third over bowled by Sophia Smale started well for Essex with a single a dot and a single before Beaumont decided on the 4th ball of the over to BBQ herself with a rather suicidal runout as she hit the ball straight to Esme MacGregor who throwing the ball back to Smale allowing her a rather simple chance to remove the bails

The wheels of this over fell off for Essex in the next delivery as Jones was able to hit a 4 and take a single of the last delivery to retain the strike as she finally seemingly found her rhythm after struggling for the majority of the 11 balls she faced so far

The fourth over with the Blaze on 34/1 needing 11 was bowled by Eva Gray and she got hit for three 4s on the bounce with the first two being carbon copies of each other with a switch hit from Jones

Emma Jones finished on 26*

Kathryn Bryce finished on 0*

The pick of Essex's bowlers was Sophia Smale who finished her one over with figures of 0/7 an economy of 7

Sophie Munro finished her one over with figures of 0/9 an economy of 9

Kate Coppack finished her one with figures of 0/10 an economy of 10

And Eva Gray bowled 0.3 overs and finished with figures of 0/12 an economy of 24

The final between Surrey started in a similar way with The Blaze winning the toss and electing to ball

Bryony Smith and Alyish Cranstone opened the batting for Surrey and Grace Ballinger opened the bowling

Smith got up to her usual with a four and a single before Cranstone was bowled for a Golden Duck by Ballinger to leave Surrey 5/1

The next batter was Kira Chathli and together with Smith they put on a 7 run partnership before Smith was out caught Emma Jones off the bowling of Charley Phillips for 5 to leave Surrey 12/2 after 1.4 overs

The new batter was Alice Monaghan who with Chathli put on a 34 run partnership before Chathli was ran out by Sarah Bryce off the bowling of Kathryn Bryce for 25 to leave Surrey 46/3 after 6.5 overs

Replacing Chathli was Jemima Spence

5 runs and 5 balls later Monaghan was out caught Jones off the bowling of Josie Groves for 18 to leave Surrey on 51/4

The new batter in for Surrey was Phoebe Franklin

Spence didn't last much longer and the score card didn't move much in the time frame from the 7.4 over to the 9.1 over as she was out caught S.Bryce off the bowling of K.Bryce for 3 to leave Surrey 54/5

Alice Davidson-Richards was the next batter in to try and salvage something for Surrey's bowlers to defend

Her stand with Franklin didn't last long as 3 balls after Spence's departure Franklin was sent back to the shed after being caught and bowled by K.Bryce

Kalea Moore was the next in the revolving door of Surrey batters and together with ADR put on a 21 run partnership before on the first ball of the 13th over Moore was out bowled by K Bryce to leave Surrey 80/7

Priyanaz Chatterji walked in then swiftly walked back as she was out LBW for a duck on the second ball of the 13th to give K Bryce an opportunity to take a Hat trick

Bethan Miles was the next batter in and together with ADR partnered for 11 runs off the last 4 balls meaning Surrey finished on 91/8

Alice Davidson-Richards finished on 19*

Bethan Miles finished 1*

The pick of The Blaze's bowlers was Kathryn Bryce who finished her 3 overs with figures of 4/18 an economy of 6.00

The most economical of The Blaze's bowlers was Kirstie Gordon who finished her 3 with figures of 0/16 an economy of 5.33

Grace Ballinger finished her 3 with figures of 1/29 an economy of 9.66

Charley Phillips finished her 2 with figures of 1/11 an economy of 5.50

Josie Groves finished her 2 with figures of 1/15 an economy of 7.50

The Blaze once again deployed the partnership of Emma Jones and Tammy Beaumont to open the chase and together in a partnership that lasted 3.2 overs scored 29 runs before Jones was out caught Chathli off the bowling of Monaghan for 22

The new batter in was K Bryce who with Beaumont put on a partnership of 16 before Beaumont was out caught by ADR off the bowling of Monaghan for 8 after 6.3 overs

Georgia Elwiss was the next in and with K Bryce put on 40 runs before Elwiss was out on 17 caught Spence off the bowling of Dani Gregory to leave The Blaze after 11 overs on 87/3

S Bryce joined her sister in the middle and in the next over they finished the chase together with K Bryce hitting the winning runs as The Blaze finished on 92/3 after 12 overs

Kathryn Bryce finished on 38*

Sarah Bryce finished on 2*

The pick of Surrey's bowlers was Alice Monaghan who finished her 2 with figures of 2/13 an economy of 6.50

The most Economical of Surrey's bowlers was Priyanaz Chatterji who finished her 2 with figures of 0/12 an economy of 6.00

Bethan Miles finished her 2 with figures of 0/15 an economy of 7.50

Kalea Moore finished her 3 with figures of 0/24 an economy of 8.00

Dani Gregory finished her 3 with figures of 1/26 an economy of 8.66

Altogether it felt like this entire competition was thrown together haphazardly to fill a gap in the timetable as there seemed to be very little advertisement about the whole thing ( The Blaze didn't even have their first game in the competition on their fixture list, and Cricinfo had absolutely no information on it on their website)

Was great to actually get some cricket even though it wasn't much after being sat in the ground from 10 in the morning especially after being up since before 5:00 to catch an early train from York, made even better by the fact that we won and in comfortable fashion.

The entire nation of Sweden is our feeder club

In a game that unexpectedly didn't get hit by thunder ( can probably be explained by thunder being in Southampton) and lighting or rain The Blaze came out on top against Warwickshire

Losing the toss and being put into bat The Blaze got off to a positive start with a 4 from Marie Kelly off the first ball before she was caught by Meg Austin off the bowling of Issy Wong on the 5th ball of the first over to leave the Blaze 4/1 ( followed by 5 Byes to leave the Blaze 9/1 after 1.

Then came a slow and steady partnership between Tammy Beaumont and Kathryn Bryce ( with K.Bryce riding her luck at times) that took The Blaze to 84 before Tammy Beaumont was caught behind by Nat Wraith off the bowling of Phobie Brett ( involved a bit of juggle but it was a safe catch in the end) for 32

This left The Blaze after 17.3 overs 84/2

A 20 run partnership followed between K.Bryce and Georgia Elwiss before K Bryce was out caught by Em Arlott off the bowling of Phobie Brett for 45 to leave the Blaze 104/3

A 95 run partnership between Elwiss and Orla Prendergast followed with the pair despite not being able to find the boundary at a frequent rate being able to poach runs preventing the consistent build up of pressure from Warwickshire bowlers.

This lasted until Elwiss was out on 57 caught Wraith bowled Wong to leave The Blaze 197/4 after 39.2 overs

Sarah Bryce joined Prendergast in the middle for a 45 run partnership before S Bryce was out caught Alexa Stonehouse bowled Wong to leave The Blaze 242/5 after 45 overs

Joining Prendergast was Emma Jones and together in 7 balls they put on 11 runs before Prendergast was out caught Brooke Haliday bowled Wong for 69

Kirstie Gordon was the new batter in and in 12 balls Jones and Gordon put on 14 runs before Gordon was out LBW by Wong for 8 to leave The Blaze 267/7 with 11 balls left

Lucy Higham joined with Jones and together they put on 15 runs from the final 11 to take The Blaze to 282/7 after their 50

Emma Jones finished on 19*

Lucy Higham finished on 5*

The pick of Warwickshire bowlers was Issy Wong who finished her 10 with figures of 5/58 an economy of 5.80

The most economical bowler was Charis Pavely who finished her 5 with figures of 0/19 an economy of 3.80

Em Arlott's figures of 0/52 off her 9 create the impression that she was bowling badly which isn't true she was just unlucky and got hit by a massive lesson in sod's law as quite a few of her balls beat everyone and everything and just raced to the rope or there would of been wickets if her skip put some slips in.

Warwickshire batting got off to a similar start with 8 runs off the first 7 balls before Davina Perrin was out LBW by Grace Ballinger for 2

Katie George joined Meg Austin in the middle and thanks to some tight bowling from The Blaze's opening bowlers ( Ballinger and Charly Phillips) they were unable to find rhythm before Austin was out caught by Beaumont off the bowling of Ballinger for 7 to leave Warwickshire 23/2 after 7.3 overs

Haliday joined George in the middle and together they put on a fantastic 125 run partnership before Haliday was out caught K Bryce off the bowling of Prendergast for 52 to leave Warwickshire on 148/3 after 29.5 overs with the chase still in the balance

Pavely joined George in the middle for a 16 run partnership before Pavely was out caught Higham off the bowling of Prendergast

Arlott was the new batter in and after getting her eye in she took a liking to Gordon's bowling and hit 3 fours in one over against her before Arlott was out caught rather softly by Kelly off the bowling of Phillips for 14 to leave Warwickshire on 184/5 after 36.3 overs

Wraith joined George in the middle for an 11 runs partnership before Wraith was out caught Elwiss bowled Higham for 9

Wong came in survived one ball then was bowled by Higham in the same over to leave Warwickshire 195/7

Alexa Stonehouse was the next face to join George and they put on ten runs together before Stonehouse was out caught Prendergast bowled Higham to leave Warwickshire 205/8 after 41.4 overs

George was out the next over after a 6 run partnership with Hannah Baker caught and bowled K Bryce for a well made 89 off 113 delivery ( despite the amount she faced Warwickshire's other batters after Haliday didn't do a good enough job insuring that she had the majority of the strike)

The next over Brett was out for a duck caught Prendergast bowled Higham

Warwickshire finished 212/10 after 43.3 overs

Hannah Baker finished 5*

The pick of The Blaze's bowlers was Lucy Higham who finished her 8.3 overs with figures of 4/41 an economy of 4.82

The most economical bowler was Charly Phillips who finished her 8 with figures of 1/17 an economy of 2.12

The Blaze next face in the Metro Bank 3rd placed Somerset then 2nd placed Hampshire

Warwickshire face 9th placed Essex then 4th placed Surrey

Even though he's gone we can't escape his taint can we?