Lewis hits ton as Lancs beat Hants to win One-Day Cup

Metro Bank Women's One-Day Cup final, Utilita Bowl

Hampshire 288-6 (50 overs): Adams 77, Bouchier 66, Kemp 41; Potts 3-47

Lancashire 289-4 (48.3 overs): Lewis 141*, Smale 72; Davies 1-38

Lancashire triumph by six wickets

Match scorecard

Lancashire opener Gaby Lewis deed a sensational 141 not retired disconnected 143 balls to lead her squad to a six-wicket triumph successful nan One-Day Cup last against Hampshire.

Ireland skipper Lewis batted each nan measurement done nan innings arsenic Lancashire chased down their target of 289 pinch 9 balls to spare.

She put connected 144 pinch Seren Smale, who scored 72, and past had useful partnerships of 61 pinch skipper Ellie Threlkeld and an unbroken 46 pinch Ailsa Lister to spot nan occupation through.

Hampshire's innings had been group up by 77 from skipper Georgia Adams and Maia Bouchier's 66, but nan squad that vanished apical of nan group stages came up short.

It was a 3rd conclusion successful a last for a Hampshire broadside successful 9 days, aft they mislaid successful some nan men's T20 Blast and One-Day Cup.

Hampshire had vanished apical of nan eight-team group successful this competition, pinch 9 wins from 14 games, and a sparkling 107 not retired from Adams had led them past Surrey to nan final, played connected their location ground.

Asked to bat first, Bouchier and Southby put connected a good 70 for nan first wicket earlier nan wicketkeeper fell for 35.

Bouchier deed nan accelerator and had scored 66 disconnected 59 balls erstwhile she tamely holed retired to mid-on disconnected Mahika Gaur.

It was a akin communicative for Freya Kemp successful her run-a-ball 41 arsenic she slashed slow left-armer Hannah Jones to short extra-cover.

And again for Adams, who could not lucifer her semi-final period arsenic she was dismissed successful nan 46th over. Without her, Hampshire could not walk nan 300 barrier, having to settee for 288-6, pinch Grace Potts' 3-47 helping to support nan batting broadside successful check.

Still, Lancashire needed to people astatine astir six an complete successful their chase, and a mix-up betwixt Lewis and chap opener Alice Clarke saw Clarke tally retired pinch only 20 connected nan board.

But Lewis and Smale collapsed nan backmost of nan innings pinch their composed partnership, though they survived a mates of adjacent run-out calls earlier Smale fell to a bully diving drawback by Kemp astatine short mid-wicket disconnected Mary Taylor.

And erstwhile Fi Morris was tally retired for nine, Lancashire were 183-3 pinch nan required complaint astatine much than seven-and-a-half.

However, skipper Ellie Threlkeld added existent impetus pinch 32 disconnected 30 balls successful a business of 60 pinch Lewis, until she fell to Freya Davies.

But arsenic agelong arsenic Lewis was astatine nan crease, Lancashire remained favourites. She reached her period from 121 balls earlier going connected nan complaint to grounds her highest List-A score.

In business pinch Ailsa Lister, they added an unbroken 46 disconnected conscionable 28 balls to spot Lancashire location arsenic they lifted nan 2nd trophy of nan play to spell pinch triumph successful nan T20 County Cup in May.

Lancashire skipper Ellie Threlkeld told BBC Radio Lancashire:

"I consciousness rather emotional. I'm so, truthful proud of everyone.

"To put successful a capacity for illustration that, to pursuit that down, to do it successful nan mode successful which we did, and to play specified unthinkable cricket each year, I'm truthful proud of each nan girls.

"It's been specified a squad effort. It's beautiful unthinkable really.

"It's been unthinkable to spot nan players turn from an individual constituent of position and arsenic a squad we've learned really to win, and winning's a habit.

"In nan past we person astir apt learned really to lose, truthful it's bully that we've turned it round."