Controversial Winfield run out sparks Diamonds collapse

Loughborough Lightning 128 for 9 (Devine 52) beat Yorkshire Diamonds 85 (Grundy 3-21)Scorecard

Yorkshire Diamonds were struck down by Loughborough Lightning who beat them by 43 runs with 17 balls remaining at Headingley in the first match in the new Kia Super League.

In front of a crowd approaching 1,000, Lightning had to work hard for their 128 for 9 but it was easily defended after Diamonds’ captain, Lauren Winfield was controversially run out for a rapid 23 from 13 balls with five fiercely struck boundaries.

It appeared that if she may have been impeded by the bowler, Ellyse Perry, when turning for a second run and she was unable to make her ground in time. Winfield spoke to the umpires but they were happy that she had been fairly dismissed.

“I felt I may have been obstructed by the bowler when going for a second run and I had a word with the umpires but it was just one of those things,” Winfield said. “Perhaps if there had been the chance to see it again I may not have been given out but it was a situation which couldn’t be changed.”

Diamonds were 37 for 2 in only the fourth over when Winfield left the field but they were never able to regain their early momentum against tight bowling, Rebecca Grundy finishing with 3 for 21 from her four overs while Sophie Devine and Georgia Elwiss had two apiece.

The experienced Katherine Brunt managed 16 before being fifth out, bowled by Elwiss, and Danielle Hazell hit a …

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