Bath Wanderers 1st XI suffered national semi-final heartbreak in the ECB Women’s Club Cup T20 on Sunday 3rd August.
Bath Wanderers 1st XI will return to North Parade on Sunday 17th August | Photo © Richard Briggs
The Wanderers were beaten by six wickets when they faced North London outfit Gunnersbury at neutral Basingstoke & North Hants CC.
With Bath electing to bat, openers Genevieve Donaldson and Katie Dolman (25 from 22 balls) got them off to a flying start with a first-wicket stand worth 52.
However, they were soon 55-2 – and then they lost two wickets in the 90s.
Donaldson made 78, including a six and 10 fours, from 54 balls before she was stumped, and the Wanderers were 124-5.
Emily Smith (14 not out) and Lily Day (10 not out) added late runs and Bath finished with 140-5 from their 20 overs.
Bhoomika Bhat was Gunnersbury’s most successful bowler, returning 2-23 from four overs. Her team gave away only one extra.
Catherine Dalton and Naomi Dattani (40 from 43 balls) handed the capital team a superb start to the reply, putting on 74 for the first wicket.
Dalton went on to make 61 – with two sixes and half-a-dozen boundaries – off 46 deliveries but was third out, Gunnersbury having 125 on the board.
Number four Amelie Bishop finished with 27 not out from 17 deliveries as her side reached 141-4 with four balls remaining, Day picking up 3-33 from four overs. Day’s haul included the wicket of Dattani, caught and bowled.
Although wicketless, Dolman and Charlotte Phillips were economic, with 0-13 from 3.2 overs and 0-19 off four overs respectively.
In the final, at Wormsley in Buckinghamshire on Sunday 17th August, Gunnersbury will take on Suffolk’s Copdock & Old Ipswichian, who overcame North Yorkshire’s Sessay in the last four.
The Wanderers will return to action the same day, when they entertain Devizes in the West of England Premier League Women’s Premier Division.
Bath have won all five of their league matches so far but are now second in the table to Devizes, who have played two games more. The Wiltshire team hold a five-point advantage.
