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By Alex Smith, ECB Reporters Network supported by Rothesay
Hampshire tied for the second time in the Vitality Blast women’s competition this season in a low-scoring thriller at Utilita Bowl.
Surrey all-rounder Alice Monaghan was tasked with defending six from the final over but six singles meant the scores were level at 121.
The Hawks had already tied with Somerset already this season while Surrey had their 100 per cent record ended.
Surrey had earlier struggled to tame a slow pitch, with only Alice Davidson-Richards thriving with a 40, while fellow birthday girl Amanda-Jade Wellington picked up three for 25.
The visitors had looked to have locked up the match before Nancy Harman whacked 43 in 26 balls to turn the game into a last-over nail-biter.
Hampshire were a bowler down, after Daisy Gibb was ruled out for six weeks with a finger injury, but despite being put under pressure by being asked to bowl first, kept Surrey under par.
Despite picking up Bryony Smith in the second over, the powerplay belonged to the visitors, especially after Laura Harris thumped 18 in the sixth over.
But from 50 for one in the powerplay, runs became scarce – only one over in the remaining 14 overs went for double figures, wickets fell regularly and partnerships struggled to get formed.
While Georgia Adams and Poppy Tulloch were particularly tight, it was Wellington that mixed miserliness with wickets.
The Australian castled Harris before she could turn her 25 off 12 balls into something seriously dangerous, before Jemima Spece skied behind and Alice Monaghan was done by the drift to get bowled.
Other than Harris, the only other batter to score a boundary in the innings was Davidson-Richards, who tried to glue things together with 40.
She struck a sweet six down the ground and four boundaries as she wrestled with the conditions better than anyone else.
Surrey’s 121 all out started to look peachier when Ryana Macdonald-Gay – on the back of a record six-wicket haul against Durham – bowled Ella McCaughan, and released by England Maia Boucher hit straight up.
Momentum continued to be hard to find as the Hawks saw the required rate raiseto over nine runs an over.
But Harman’s arrival saw cleaner hitting and smarter running improved things but there was still 16 runs needed off the last two overs.
Harman was dropped with eight balls to spare but was bowled off the last ball of the penultimate over to make it seven required off the final over.
The first five balls all saw singles – whether off the bat, leg or bye – and the last ball ended up as a run out as Rhianna Southby failed to get back for a second run.
