{"id":202053,"date":"2025-06-21T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202053\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:18:09","slug":"t20-blast-bears-defeat-unbeaten-blaze-and-essex-cruise-past-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/202053\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Blast: Bears defeat unbeaten Blaze and Essex cruise past Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The match in Birmingham was a meeting of two in-form sides with both having won their previous three games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bears opted to bat and made a fine start as Meg Austin and Davina Perrin put on 59 for the first wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Netherlands batter Kalis played the anchor innings with 54 off 41 balls to set up the total, despite a fine 4-21 from Kathryn Bryce for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bryce and Tammy Beaumont had put on 49 in six overs for The Blaze&#8217;s second wicket, but when Bryce fell to Millie Taylor, the momentum shifted, especially when Beaumont was out for 44 in the following over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From there, Sarah Bryce battled to 32, but The Blaze could not build any significant partnerships and ended well short of their target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The match in Birmingham was a meeting of two in-form sides with both having won their previous three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-202053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114720375615728275","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}