Phoebe Turner and Jess Jonassen scored brilliant centuries for Durham and Yorkshire as both teams played out a thrilling Metro Bank One-Day Cup tie at Scarborough.
Durham all-rounder Turner helped inserted Durham recover from 53 for four in the East Coast sunshine to post 290 for eight, a total also including Bess Heath’s Durham best of 70 off 52 balls. Turner’s 100 not out off 82 balls represented her maiden competitive century.
Australian all-rounder Jonassen then posted 104 off 109 balls and looked to have put the White Rose in a great position at 207 for four in the 37th over. It was her second ton in ton in as many games.
But four run outs, including Rachel Slater trying to sramble a single through to wicketkeeper Tahlia Wilson off the last ball from Turner, left Yorkshire 290 all out. Durham have won one, lost three and tied one. Yorkshire have won two, lost two and tied one.
Yorkshire’s 16-year-old all-rounder Ines Blackwell struck three early blows with her seam, getting Australian Wilson, Mady Villiers and captain Hollie Armitage. She finished with a career best four for 61 from 10 overs.
Heath set the ball rolling on the visiting recovery with a 37-ball fifty.
Blackwell’s in-swing had Wilson chipping to midwicket in the 10th, Villiers bowled next ball and, in the 12th, captain Armitage trapped lbw playing back.
Heath shared 71 for the fifth wicket with Emily Windsor and then 56 for the sixth with Turner before falling to a superb one-handed catch at cover from Jess Woolston having cut Maddie Ward’s spin.
At that stage, Durham were 180 for six in the 31st over before Turner, who shared 61 for the seventh wicket with Katherine Fraser, led late acceleration towards 300 and punched the air in delight as she reached three figures for the first time in a competitive match.
Lauren Filer then forced home captain Lauren Winfield-Hill to play on with the second ball of the chase before Rebecca Duckworth was trapped lbw by a Trudy Johnson in-swinger in the second over, leaving the score at four for two.
But Jonassen and Dutch international Sterre Kalis, who posted 79, turned things around with a fourth-wicket 121 stand from 86 for three.
But when Jonassen top-edged a sweep at Katie Levick’s leg-spin and was caught at short fine-leg, followed by Kalis bowled by Turner – 229 for five in the 40th over, it set the wheels in motion on a damaging collapse.
Jonassen had reached her hundred off 104 balls, but it was in vain as Blackwell, Beth Langston and Claudie Cooper were all run out.
That left 10 needed off the last over from Turner.
Slater struck a leg-side six before striker Woolston missed the last ball with a single needed, Slater ran and Wilson threw down the striker’s stumps to cap an incredible game of cricket.
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