England Women – Road to Success: NatWest Women's Quadrangular Series 2011
England Women won the Final of the NatWest Women’s Quadrangular Series, on July 7th, 2011, beating Australia Women by 34 runs, at Wormsley.
We will highlight their triumphs in the tournament which enabled them to clinch the series.
First match: against India Women at Derby, June 30, 2011
England Women won the toss and put India Women in to bat.
India Women Batting
India Women scored 202 runs for the loss of nine wickets in the allotted 50 overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Poonam-Ganesh-Raut-c82377 scored 52 runs, Veda Krishnamurthy 51 runs and Harmanpreet Kaur 41.
England Women Bowling
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Arran-Brindle-c45514 claimed one each.
England Women Batting
They achieved the target by scoring 204 runs for the loss of four wickets in 45.2 overs. Captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lydia-Sophie-Greenway-c73339 remained unbeaten on 51 and Claire Taylor scored 41 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 Women Bowling
Their Captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gouher-Sultana-c60424 shared one wicket each.
Result – England Women won the match by six wickets and Greenway was declared ‘Player of the Match’.
Second match: against New Zealand Women
at Derby, July 2nd, 2011
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 Women won the toss and offered the batting to England Women.
England Women Batting
They posted 237 runs after losing nine wickets in 50 overs. Claire Taylor was the highest scorer with 67 runs. Sarah Taylor remained unbeaten on 41 runs and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Danielle-Nicole-Wyatt-c52365 contributed 30.
New Zealand Women Bowling
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lucy-Rose-Doolan-c73250 shared one each.
New Zealand Women Batting
The Black Caps were bowled out at 179 runs in 45.4 overs. Captain Aimee Watkins was the top scorer with 59 runs while Btaes scored 40 runs and Browne added 22.
England Women Bowling
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Laura-Alexandra-Marsh-c72238 was the highest wicket taker with three wickets. Brindle took two wickets while Brunt, Colvin, Wyatt and Hazell shared one each.
Result – England Women won the match by 58 runs and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Samantha-Claire-Taylor-c88224 was declared ‘Player of the Match’.
Third match: against Australia Women
at Lord’s, July 5th, 2011
England Women Batting
England Women won the toss, elected to bat. They scored 168 runs before they were bowled out in 48 overs. Greenway was the chief scorer with 34 runs while Colvin scored 29 runs and Brindle contributed with 22.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 Women Bowling
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Erin-Alyse-Osborne-c56181 shared one each.
Australia Women Batting
The Kangaroos achieved the target by scoring 169 runs for the loss of just three wickets in 35 overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Meg-Lanning-c75532 scored 53 and 43 runs respectively.
England Women Bowling
Colvin and Wyatt claimed one wicket each.
Result – Australia Women won the match by seven wickets while Blackwell was declared as the ‘Player of the Match’.
Final match: against Australia Women
at Wormsley, July 7th, 2011.
Australia Women won the toss and put England Women in to bat. They scored 230 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 50 overs. Greenway scored 58 runs, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sarah-Jane-Taylor-c88769 43 and Edwards added 31 runs.
Australia Women Bowling
Coyte was the star performer with four wickets. Sthalekar took two wickets and Nitschke grabbed one.
Australia Women Batting
The Aussie Women were bowled out at 196 runs in 47.2 overs. Cameron was the highest scorer with 75 runs while Blackwell added 34 and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jodie-Maree-Fields-c67118 scored 30.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 Women Bowling
Brunt wrecked the Australian Women batting by grabbing five wickets. Guha, Colvin, Brindle and Wyatt shared one wicket each as well.
Result – England Women won the Final by 34 runs. Brunt was declared the ‘Player of the match’ and Cameron (Australia Women), ‘Player of the series’.
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