Surrey take to the road and face Yorkshire as hopes of qualification for a place in the Metro Bank Women’s One day Cup semi-finals continue.
Surrey will play Yorkshire at Ampleforth College on Wednesday 25 August and play will begin at 10.30am.
Surrey currently sit in the middle of the table in 6th place. A win will propel them further towards a qualification position for the semifinals.
HOW CAN I KEEP UP WITH PLAY?
Surrey’s social media accounts will provide live updates throughout the day. A full match report will be posted at the end of the day.
SQUAD UPDATES
Sophia Dunkley, Alice Capsey and Tilly Corteen-Coleman return to Surrey having been rested by England ahead of the upcoming series against Ireland.
Kate Coppack makes her squad debut after joining the Club for the remainder of the 2026 Metro Bank One Day Cup campaign. The right-arm seamer signed with the Three Feathers for the 2027 season back in July.
Kalea Moore is ruled out of selection after picking up an injury sustained at the end of the Hundred and Bryony Smith is rested ahead of the Vitality County Cup T20 Finals Day this upcoming Saturday.
LAST TIME OUT
Yorkshire were Surrey’s homecoming game at the Kia Oval at the start of the 2026 season.
Newly promoted into tier one cricket, Yorkshire were an unknown for the Three Feathers.
Maitlan Brown and Tilly Corteen-Coleman began the attack for the side, each with a new ball. Corteen-Coleman struck first, bowling Georgie Boyce to send Yorkshire to 21/1 in the fourth over.
Slowing down the strike rate, Yorkshire struggled to convert their time at the crease into runs. Moore struck in the 12th over but little more occurred until the 27th over when a flurry of wickets brought about by Maitlan Brown moved Yorkshire to 132/4.
Yorkshire’s momentum came to a complete halt in the 38th over when four wickets fell in the space of eight balls and the White Roses were 185 all out.
The chase began with a quintessential Bryony Smith for four, struck past backward square leg.
Smith’s opening partner, Paige Scholfield, equally excited for the chase, struck three fours in the opening two overs.
Scholfield continued the sprint, striking a match winning 89-runs from just 42 balls. Aside from her attack, Alice Davidson-Richards steadied the ship and guided the Three Feathers to victory in the 24th over with a 35* alongside Priyanaz Chatterji (2*).
Surrey’s attack was sure, and meant Yorkshire saw little hope in their defence of 185. Another performance like this, and Surrey will succeed in securing at least four points that will move them further up the table and closer towards a semi-final place.
YORKSHIRE
Captain: Lauren Winfield-Hill
Head coach: Rich Pyrah
2025 finish: Champions (Tier 2)
2025 highest run-scorer: Ami Campbell (452)
2025 highest wicket-taker: Olivia Thomas (18)
Winter moves: International spin-bowling all-rounders Sarah Glenn (England) and Jess Jonassen (Australia) have signed two-year deals, the latter as an all-format overseas and the former coming from The Blaze. Scotland seamer Hannah Rainey joined on loan from Lancashire late last summer ahead of a permanent move. Another spin-bowling all-rounder Olivia Thomas has been elevated from an Academy to professional contract. Kevin Sharp returns to Yorkshire as an assistant coach.
The big question: How will Yorkshire fare in their first season in Tier 1? They enjoyed a successful Tier 2 campaign last year, winning the Metro Bank One-Day Cup, reaching the final of the Vitality Blast and the quarter-finals of the T20 County Cup. But this summer, it will be a different ball game. Head coach Rich Pyrah and Yorkshire’s management have confidence in the players’ ability but have urged patience.
Player to watch: Vice captain Maddie Ward, 21 years old, can do it all. She can keep wicket, bats in dynamic and inventive fashion, bowls spin when required and is a gun in the field. She even skippered Yorkshire last season when Lauren Winfield-Hill wasn’t available. When she first did it in June, aged 20 years and 133 days, Worksop-born Ward became the county’s second youngest ever captain – female or male.
Final thought: Yorkshire are very much looking at this as a long-term project. Results are not the be-all and end-all this season, across all formats. Development is more important to them. But if they can take a couple of scalps along the way, it would be a real shot in the arm for the White Rose county. And a Roses win against champions Lancashire would be ideal.
