Shrubsole five sends Storm to Finals Day

Western Storm 119 for 4 (Priest 50, Taylor 45) beat Yorkshire Diamonds 118 (Mooney 56, Shrubsole 5-23) by six wicketsScorecard

Western Storm surged into the Kia Super League Finals Day at Chelmsford next Sunday with a six-wicket victory over Yorkshire Diamonds at Headingley, the home side failing to qualify after suffering their fourth defeat in the competition.

Storm were left chasing a target of 119 after an astonishing end to the Yorkshire innings which saw Anya Shrubsole bowl the 20th over and complete it with a four-wicket maiden to give her final figures of 5 for 23 in her four overs, which also included another wicket maiden.

Then West Indian, Stafanie Taylor, and New Zealand’s Rachel Priest, made light work of the reply with a dashing century opening partnership.

Both departed with the score on 101 to consecutive balls from Shabnim Ismail, Priest hitting 50 from 35 deliveries with six fours and two sixes and Taylor 45 from 43 balls with five fours and a six.

A couple more wickets went down quickly but there were still 3.3 overs remaining when Sophie Luff swept the winning boundary.

Taylor and Priest rattled up 25 from the first four over and Priest went on to straight-drive Katie Levick for the first six of the match. Runs flowed as Taylor off-drove Jenny Gunn for four and Priest square drove Stef Butler to the boundary before blazing the trail the with two fours and a six …

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