Ansty through to National Women's Club T20 Knockout Cup regional finals

Having played away in the quarter-fiinals at Hursley, Ansty finally secured a home game in the regional Semi-final against Aldershot.
By Mark Dunford
Published 3rd Jun 2019, 15:03 BST
Naomi Woods takes a wicket. Picture by Mark PeacockNaomi Woods takes a wicket. Picture by Mark Peacock
Naomi Woods takes a wicket. Picture by Mark Peacock

Ansty fielding a very young but talented team, lost the toss and Aldershot chose to bat first.

On a beautiful day at the Sty Aldershot made a steady start and Ansty struggled to make inroads into the batting. Aldershot batted well and reached 65 for 3 before Ansty tightened things up restricting Aldershot to 87 for 5 off their 20 overs. Billie O’Loughlin taking two wickets, and one each for Eloise Strong, Naomi Woods and Natasha Sole.

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Openers Lucy Western and Regina Suddahazai got the Sty off to a good start seeing the Sty progress to 25 in the third over before the first wicket fell.

Ansty continued to score at a good rate, but lost the wickets of Frankie Angel, Western, and Sofie Cawley along the way, before Sole and Woods saw Ansty home and win by 6 wickets.

This now sees Ansty progress to the regional finals at Ansty on Sunday 16th June, against St Cross Symondians, for a place in the National finals on the 30th June in Wales.

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