Updates from the 2020 title decider at North
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2nd over: Thunder 10-0 (Beaumont 2, Trenaman 8) Katherine Brunt bowling from the other end, and Lanning is standing at slip for Brunt, who is bowling seam-up and getting some outswing. But we said the batters need to take some initiative, and Trenaman does! Walking at Brunt to reduce the swing, and outside off a little to straighten up the line, so that Trenaman can drop-kick it over square leg for four. Two balls later, a similar movement and Trenno, as she is inevitably called by her teammates, can play in a similar area but along the ground for another quatro. Last ball of the over Brunt is up in a big appeal, swinging in and hitting pad, and it takes an excellent decision from umpire Eloise Sheridan to rule that the ball was missing leg stump. It was, says the computer, just. 9.52am GMT
1st over: Thunder 1-0 (Beaumont 1, Trenaman 0) That’s one run, no wickets, for newcomers and the perennially nervous. The Thunder openers may be nervous too, small target syndrome. They don’t want to start too slowly and put pressure on themselves though. Sciver opens the bowling, Beaumont works a single to square leg, and that’s it for the over as Trenaman faces out most of it.