Reigning champions Surrey moved top of the Women’s T20 Blast table with a 34-run win over The Blaze at Trent Bridge.
Phoebe Franklin led the way with 46 from 30 balls as Surrey posted 155-9, despite Charli Knott’s incredible figures of 6-25.
Kalea Moore then took 5-22, a maiden five-wicket haul, as The Blaze collapsed from 98-2 to be bowled out for just 121.
Elsewhere, a world-record equalling partnership between Lauren Winfield-Hill and Sterre Kalis helped Yorkshire claim their first win this season as they beat Somerset, and Durham beat Lancashire.
In the Nottingham sunshine, Surrey’s win lifted them above their hosts with six wins from nine matches as The Blaze slip to fourth after a second defeat of the campaign.
On a tricky surface, the substance of the Surrey innings came in an 82-run fifth-wicket partnership between Franklin and Alice Monaghan, who made 35 off 27 balls.
Australian off-spinning all-rounder Knott took a career-best six-wicket haul for The Blaze and is now the leading wicket-taker in the competition with 16.
Knott also made 28 from 23 balls as The Blaze moved into contention at 98-2 in the 13th over with Tammy Beaumont making 37 in 36 deliveries and Kathryn Bryce’s 31 from 21.
But the hosts then collapsed miserably, losing their last eight wickets for 23 runs to lose by a wide margin.
At Headingley, Yorkshire had lost seven of their previous eight games but made 210-4, the highest total by any team in this year’s Blast.
Captain Winfield-Hill hit a career best 99 off 55 balls and Netherlands star Kalis 84 not out off 50 as they pair equalled the world record for the highest fourth-wicket partnership in women’s T20 cricket, putting on 167.
Somerset started their chase well, but their task was too tall.
Australian Anika Learoyd top-scored with an unbeaten career-best 103 off 49 balls including four sixes. But England leg-spinner Sarah Glenn impressed for Yorkshire with 2-30 as Somerset replied with 199-5.
Despite a first victory, Yorkshire stay bottom of the table, while a fourth defeat in nine games dents Somerset’s Finals Day ambitions as they lie fifth.
But Durham gave their chances of reaching Finals Day a boost as they moved up to third by beating Lancashire by seven wickets at Chester-le-Street.
Medium-pacer Trudy Johnson led they way, taking a career-best 3-7 as the visitors were dismissed for 79 in 19.3 overs. Number three Darcey Carter offered the only prolonged resistance with an unbeaten 32.
In reply, Hollie Armitage made 44 not out as Durham coasted home in 13.3 overs, thereby earning five points for their convincing victory, although young leg-spinner Venus Weerappulli offered visiting supporters some consolation and finished with 2-18 from her four overs.
