Surrey Wrapped 2025 – Vitality Blast
Champions in the inaugural Women’s Blast and a home quarter-final for the Men, the Three Feather’s T20 campaign has been one full of excitement and entertainment.
As the season is now at an end, here is a run down of Surrey’s best moments of the Vitality Blast 2025.
Best batting performance
Danni Wyatt-Hodge v Durham
Many of the Three Feathers put in standout performances throughout Surrey’s successful Vitality Blast campaign, with Danni Wyatt-Hodge enjoying a special summer.
Scoring 377 runs across nine innings, Wyatt-Hodge dominated at the top of the order throughout the tournament.
Surrey’s opening standalone game at the Kia Oval delivered a first-class performance from Wyatt-Hodge. She cruised to 74 not out from 36 balls to secure a nine wicket win over Durham. Her high strike-rate continued in the defeat to the Blaze, as she smashed 60 from 33 balls.
The England batter’s fine form continued throughout the tournament and made five half-centuries at an impeccable strike-rate of 157.08.
Dan Lawrence 120* V Glamorgan
There were many outstanding contributions with the bat for Surrey in this year’s Vitality Blast. However, Dan Lawrence’s magical 120 not out reigns supreme — going down as one of the great T20 innings at the Kia Oval.
Lawrence, who missed the first block of the competition through injury, entered the fray with Surrey in a tricky position on 16/3 in the fourth over in reply to Glamorgan’s 222/6. Lawrence and Jacks (31) set about rebuilding the innings. The pair added 62 runs for the fourth wicket, with Lawrence playing the aggressor role. Dan was going along nicely, hitting 34 from his first 18 deliveries before Will Jacks was brilliantly run out by Glamorgan skipper Kiran Carlson.
Tom Curran joined and immediately got stuck into his work, taking Surrey to 89/4 from ten overs, with 134 needed from the final 60 balls. Lawrence got stuck into Andrew Gorvin’s 11th over, moving to his 50 from 24 balls with an incredible six off a slower ball. Lawrence started to find the boundary regularly to keep Surrey up with the required run rate, with 88 from the next six overs to put Surrey in control. Lawrence pinched a single to move to his maiden T20 century from 46 balls in the 17th over.
Five runs were required from the final over, but a potentially nervy finish was put to bed with the first ball as Lawrence smashed Gorvin into the Pavilion to wrap up a six-wicket victory. Lawrence finished 120 not out – his highest score in T20 cricket.
There were other notable scores from Surrey batters, including Will Jacks’ maiden Surrey century at Sussex Sharks and his incredible 97 in the London Derby, plus Jason Roy’s fighting 92 in the opening day defeat to Somerset.
Best bowling performance
Ryana MacDonald-Gay 4/14 V Lancashire
Bowler of the Year Ryana MacDonald-Gay enjoyed another stellar season.
The England seamer’s performance against Lancashire at the Kia Oval resulted in the visitors finishing 118 all out – 53 runs short of the target. MacDonald-Gay took 4/14 in a story two ends.
MacDonald-Gay’s opening over saw her be hit for 11 with no wickets. But a change of ends did the trick and she struck on her third delivery, as Fee Morris was caught behind and the over finished with just a single run taken from it.
With Lancashire 110/5 in the 15th over, MacDonald-Gay was tasked with finishing the job.
Opener Emma Lamb, who had steered the Lancashire innings, played onto her stumps as the Red Rose’s hopes of winning started to fade.
Phoebe Franklin worked away at the other end setting MacDonald-Gay up for a return which saw her dismiss Kate Cross and Sophia Morris.
MacDonald-Gay wrapped up the match, taking two wickets form the first three balls of her final over to finish with figures of 4/14 from 3.3 overs. The two death bowlers had bowled brilliantly at the back end, taking five wickets and conceding just eight runs.
It was the young seam bowlers’ best figures of the season that claimed Surrey their seventh win of the competition.
Chris Jordan 4/10 V Kent Spitfires
Chris Jordan was the star with the ball and with the bat as we beat our oldest rivals in nail-biting fashion at the Kia Oval.
CJ entered the attack in the fifth over as Kent went off like a rocket. He picked up the wicket of Kent skipper Daniel Bell-Drummond to kick-start a memorable evening.
Jordan re-entered the attack in the 14th over to pick up the wicket of Sam Billings – caught at deep square leg by Jacks to leave Kent 96/4. Just eight runs came from CJ’s first three overs. Skipper Sam Curran brought CJ back in the 18th, where he conceded just two runs and picked up the wickets of Joe Denly (40) and Grant Stewart (0) to finish with incredible figures of 4/10 from four overs.
The all-rounders night wasn’t finished… With three required from the final ball, he hit Parkinson for four to send the Kia Oval crowd delirious as the Three Feathers completed another Vitality Blast double over their oldest rivals.
There were other standout performances with the ball, notably the skipper Sam Curran’s 4/18 to clinch victory for Surrey at Sussex Sharks, as well as a sting of impressive performances by spin twins Adam Zampa and Mitch Santner.
Best fielding moment
Alice Capsey’s One Handed Wonder Woman Catch
Surrey’s first-class performances weren’t just with the ball and ball, but also in the field.
Alice Capsey’s one handed grab at long-on against Somerset, was perhaps the pinnacle of Surrey’s class in the field.
Alice Capsey took the catch of the season to dismiss Somerset’s Amanda-Jade Wellington. What looked like a certain four stuck to an outstretched right arm to send the Kia Oval crowd into a frenzy on Family Day.
There were other moments of excellent through the Blast campaign, including Phoebe Franklin’s run out in the final ball of the innings to tie against Essex, Alice Davidson-Richards forward dive at long-on against Hampshire and Ryana MacDonald-Gay’s brilliant run out in the final.
Sam Curran’s Stretch to Victory
Skipper Sam Curran led with the ball, bat and in the field for Surrey this summer. There were many memorable moments on the field for Junior, including the brilliant caught and bowled at Sussex or the running out Kent Spitfires captain Daniel Bell-Drummond to silence Canterbury.
However, he took an incredible catch at Lord’s to dismiss Max Holden. Fielding at mid-on, Curran took a diving one-handed catch with his right hand to help Surrey yet another London Derby victory.
Best win on the road
Surrey’s Double
Surrey’s inaugural Blast season saw thirteen wins, one tie and a loss. It was a season characterised by dominance at home and on the road. A feat that holds even more merit given a schedule that included back-to-back game days across the country.
But it was Surrey’s win at Southampton in-front of the Sky Sports cameras that takes the crown as our best on the road.
Hampshire won the toss and elected to bat first. The hosts posted 155/4 with Australian overseas Charlie Knott top scoring with 74 not out.
Knott looked to be in the driving seat, but Surrey’s relentless bowling attack kept pinning the posts back by attacking the other end.
Danni Wyatt-Hodge made the most convincing assault on Hampshire’s target, knocking off 65 runs from her 40 balls faced.
Surrey required 50 from the final 38 balls of the match. Paige Scholfield and ADR kept the scoreboard ticking against some tight Hampshire bowling.
With 11 required from the final five balls, Scholfield chipped the second ball over mid-wicket for two. ADR found the boundary with the fourth ball of the over, before a single meant that Surrey required two from the final ball.
The Surrey batter calmly dispatched a wide delivery for four through point, past the long levers of Lauren Bell and secured a brilliant five-wicket victory on the road for Surrey.
Surrey had won their opening four matches on the road to propel them to the top of the table, where they’d stay for the rest of the competition.
The men’s team traveled 606 miles across southern England in this year’s competition, picking up six wins from their seven matches. The most convincing win came in the 69-run win at a very good Hampshire Hawks side in front of the Sky Sports cameras following the success of the Women’s team moments before.
Player of the Match Dom Sibley hit 70 as Surrey posted 193/6 from their 20 overs. Sibley and Jacks (41) got Surrey off to a brilliant start, taking Surrey to 74 from seven overs before Jacks fell. Captain Sam Curran carried on the good start, smashing 38 from 20 balls as Surrey continued scoring at near ten runs an over for the rest of the innings to reach 193.
The Three Feathers were then relentless with the ball. The wickets were shared as Hampshire were skittled out for 124 in the 18th over. Chris Jordan took 2/17 from his four overs, with Nathan Smith taking 3/18 to wrap up a brilliant day on the south coast for the Three Feathers.
