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Hampshire Beat Surrey to Reach One-Day Cup Final

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Metro Bank Women's One-Day Cup semi-final, Utilita Bowl: Hampshire 303-5 (50 overs): Bouchier 117*; Luus 2-43. Surrey 109 (27.3 overs): King 34; Wellington 5-19. Hampshire beat Surrey by 194 runs.

Maia Bouchier scored a century in back-to-back matches to help Hampshire beat Surrey and reach the One-Day Cup final for the second season in a row. Bouchier followed her 118 against The Blaze with 117 not out, making it three hundreds in September. She is the competition's leading run-scorer with 721 in 11 innings. She had century stands with Freya Kemp and Abi Norgrove, who scored 77 and 60 respectively, as Hampshire piled up 303-5.

Surrey were rolled out for 109, with Australian Amanda-Jade Wellington picking up 5-19 – taking her tally to 37 in 2026. Hampshire will face The Blaze in the final on Saturday at the Utilita Bowl, looking to avenge last year's defeat by Lancashire.

This was a rerun of last year's semi-final. Surrey chose to bat last time but stuck Hampshire in this time. Despite Bouchier's form and captain Kira Chathli taken off after an over, Surrey got a foothold by dismissing Ella Mc Caughan and Georgia Adams inside 11 overs. At 50-2, Kemp's aggressive 77 off 63 balls swung momentum. Norgrove continued her impressive form, and both she and Bouchier were relentless in wearing Surrey down. Bouchier reached her fifth hundred of 2026. Norgrove was run out off the last ball after scoring 60 in a 109-run stand.

The 304 target always looked tough on a good but tired pitch. Despite Rachel King's solid start, the chase never gathered traction. After Daisy Gibb took the crucial wicket of Sophia Dunkley, spin took hold. Sune Luus holed out, Jemima Spence was bowled, Phoebe Franklin was caught, Alice Davidson-Richards edged to slip, King was run out, and Ryana Macdonald-Gay and Alice Monaghan were bowled. Wellington finished by having Chathli stumped for her second five-wicket haul of the competition.