Reigning champions Surrey moved to the 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 off 30 balls as Surrey posted 155-9 despite Charlie Knott’s incredible figures of 6-25.
Kalea Moore then took 5-22, her first five-wicket haul, as The Blaze collapsed at 98-2 and were bowled out for just 121.
Elsewhere, a world-record partnership between Lauren Winfield-Hill and Sterre Kalis helped Yorkshire to their first win of the season by beating Somerset, while Durham beat Lancashire.
Under the Nottingham sunshine, Surrey’s victory lifted them above their hosts with six wins from nine matches, with The Blaze slipping to fourth after their second defeat of the campaign.
On a difficult surface, the crux of the Surrey innings was the 82-run partnership between Franklin and Alice Monaghan for the fifth wicket, who scored 35 off 27 balls.
Australian 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 scored 28 from 23 balls as the Blaze came into contention at 98-2 in the 13th over, with Tammy Beaumont making 37 from 36 deliveries and Catherine Brice 31 from 21.
But then the hosts suffered a setback, losing their last eight wickets in 23 runs to lose by a large margin.
At Headingley, Yorkshire had lost seven of their previous eight games but scored 210–4, the highest total of any team in this year’s Blast.
The Winfield-Hill captain scored a career-best 99 from 55 balls and Netherlands star Kalis made 84 from 50 balls as the pair set a world record for the highest fourth-wicket partnership in women’s T20 cricket with 167.
Somerset started the chase well but their task was too difficult.
Australia’s Anika Leroyd scored a career-best 103 off 49 balls, including four sixes. But England’s Sarah Glenn impressed with Yorkshire’s 2-30 as Somerset responded with 199-5.
Despite the first win, Yorkshire remain bottom of the table and a fourth defeat in nine games undermines Somerset’s final-day ambitions as they sit in fifth place.
But Durham boosted their chances of reaching the final day by moving up to third by beating Lancashire by seven wickets at Chester-le-Street.
Medium pacer Trudy Johnson led the way with a career-best figure of 3-7 as the visitors were dismissed for 79 in 19.3 overs. Number three Darcy Carter provided the only sustained resistance with an unbeaten 32 points.
In response, Holly Armitage made 44 as Durham returned home in 13.3 overs to earn five points for their convincing win, although youngster Venus Veerappully offered some consolation to the visiting fans and finished with 2-18 from her four overs.