Thread by @TomEvansEcho

Anyway, another thing that is going on is the Thunder v Northern Diamonds game in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy at Aigburth. Thunder's Alex Hartley won the toss and chose to field. We get under way at 10.30.

No Sophie Ecclestone or Kate Cross for Thunder, both are back in England's training bubble. We're under way - Hannah Jones' opening over costs two runs.

Alice Dyson starts with a nine-baller that costs 10 runs; her second over is much tighter. Diamonds 14/0 from 4.

Diamonds skipper Hollie Armitage is starting very deep in her crease but then getting a big stride in - she punches Jones through the covers for her second boundary. 18/0.

Rachel Hopkins dispatches a Dyson full-toss for six; it's been a patchy start for the 21-year-old. Jones, on the other hand, has been relentlessly accurate. 26/0 from 6.

WICKET - stung by my "patchy start" comment, Dyson finds Armitage's edge and Ellie Threlkeld does the rest. 26/1.

WICKET - OK I get the message, Alice. The new batter is Sterre Kallis and she gets an absolute grubber. Bowled for 0, her third consecutive duck, and Diamonds are 26/2.

Natalie Brown comes on to replace Dyson, who has made her point. Ami Campbell is not in "patiently rebuilding after losing a couple of wickets" mode - she hoists her over square leg for six.

WICKET - just as Dyson got her revenge on a snarky cricket journo who wouldn't know a patchy start if it bit him, Brown gets her revenge on Campbell by yorking her. 45/3 in the 12th - Diamonds, you'd think, need someone to stick around for a lot of overs now.

Liverpool Competition from both ends now - worked quite well for the men yesterday - as Norley Hall's Laura Jackson replaces Jones. (Brown plays for Sutton.) 45/3 off 13.

Brown dropped an extremely sharp chance at short mid-off during Jackson's first over; now Jackson returns the "favour", just failing to hang on to one at square leg. 51/3 after 14 overs.

For context, this is only the fourth women's List A game to be played on this ground. The first was in the 1973 World Cup between an International XI and Trinidad & Tobago, which seems a bit harsh on Trinidad & Tobago.

WICKET - Jackson joins the party with one that sits up in front of Hopkins, who can only push it into the hands of Brown. 57/4.

World Cup winner Jenny Gunn is next in for Diamonds - they'll need all her experience to rescue this. She starts brightly. 64/4 from 18.

Alex MacDonald plays the shot of the day so far, a handsome cover drive off Brown. 73/4 after 20 overs.

Hartley brings herself on to replace Jackson, who took 1/7 from her five-over spell. MacDonald and Gunn patiently rebuilding. 83/4 from 22.

Hundred comes up for Diamonds, as the fifth wicket partnership continues to swell. 102/4 after 26.

Liberty Heap - winner of the prestigious Cricketer Whose Name Sounds Most Like An Indie-Rock Five-Piece From The Late 90s award - is getting a go from the Pavilion End. 110/4 from 28 overs.

MacDonald has been very strong off her legs - she sweeps Heap for two fours to move to 38, and the total to 121/4.

WICKET - Heap gets Gunn LBW with another that keeps low from the Pavilion End. Partnership of 67 comes to an end; first Thunder wicket for the 16-year-old. 124/5.

Bess Heath is the next batter in... she survives a caught & bowled chance.

After a twitchy start, Heath is getting stuck in - ruthless when Heap overpitches, smacking a six and a four towards the press tent. 145/5 in the 35th.

15 overs to go and it's been a strange one - early wickets, but they've not really slowed the scoring down. MacDonald is the key wicket for Thunder to get.

Overpitching to Bess Heath seems to be a bad idea in general. Hannah Jones returns to the attack and gets smacked down the ground.

50 for MacDonald with another sweep off Hartley.

WICKET - Heath holes out to Heap at the long-on boundary for a sprightly 23. Diamonds 163/6 in the 39th. Hartley the bowler.

MacDonald is looking to open up a bit here - she picks up a back-of-a-length ball from Jones and deposits it over the mid-wicket boundary. 173/6 with 10 overs to go.

WICKET - Threlkeld stumps Beth Langston from a leg-side wide by Hartley. 175/7.

Jones and Hartley now both bowled out - Alice Dyson back on from the Pavilion end. MacDonald on 74 now, the score is 190/7.

Laura Jackson continues to keep things tight from her end. 196/7, five overs to go.

Bit of a sloppy over there - Jackson misfields to give away a couple, then Dyson sends a wide to the boundary. 207/7, 4 left.

The 47th, from Jackson, is much better - 4 from it.

Nat Brown back on to bowl the 48th - a couple of aerial ones from Phoebe Graham drop just short, before MacDonald launches a massive six over mid-wicket and clips a four through mid-on to move on to 92. 225/7, two left.

Jackson to finish off from the River End. First ball is a very quick single to get MacDonald back on strike.

WICKET - Jackson bowls MacDonald for 92. Cracking innings, regardless of those missing eight runs. 226/8, 10 balls left.

Graham whacks a four down the ground, then scampers a leg bye, then Helen Fenby can't get the last away. Jackson finishes with 2/23 from nine overs. 228/8

First two balls of the last over, from Brown, go for four and six courtesy of Graham. Third is a single, fourth a dot, fifth a four after a horrible misfield by Dyson, sixth a single. 248/8 is the final score.

That's the fourth highest total in the RHF Trophy - would be the biggest chase if Thunder are going to do this.

Alex MacDonald's 92 was the lynchpin of that innings - with helpful cameos from Gunn, Heath and Graham around her.

Jackson was the pick of the bowlers but there were too many four-balls, misfields and extras - 19 wides in all.

Laura Marshall and Georgie Boyce at the crease to begin Thunder's chase; Beth Langston has the ball. Decent pace, one run from the over.

WICKET - Boyce is absolutely cleaned up by Langston for 0. 6/1 in the third over. Early wickets aren't necessarily fatal (source: earlier today) but Thunder won't want to test that too much.

Laura Jackson is in at 3.

Phoebe Graham, who's opening the bowling from the other end, is taking quite a wide line. Jackson happy to let them go as she gets her eye in. 9/1 off 3.

Jenny Gunn throws the ball in at the end of the over and hits Marshall. Sure it was an accident. 10/1 from 5. Slow start is not a problem - so long as it doesn't stay slow for too long.

Marshall drives Langston through the covers; in the next over, she clips Graham through square leg. 22/1 from seven.

Jackson is struggling with the pace of Langston a little; how this goes after the first couple of changes will be interesting. 25/1 off 9.

Here's the first change - Katie Levick is on to do leg-breaks from the Pavilion End. Jackson seems to be eyeing a gap at mid-wicket but can't get it away. 26/1 from 11.

WICKET - Marshall drives Levick to Graham at short cover. 32/2 in the 13th - Ellie Threlkeld next in.

Liverpool Competition at both ends here. Threlkeld off the mark with a sweep. 33/2.

Helen Fenby is on from the River End, with an action reminiscent of South African leggie Paul Adams. She is not quite releasing it right to start with...

A long over ends with the score 41/2 from 14. It is very cold.

Threlkeld likes a sweep. One brings her four runs to take the score to 47/2 off 15. 202 to win from 35.

She likes a late cut as well, and another, finer sweep - 58/2 off 16.

WICKET and Threlkeld has gone, LBW to Levick - looked like it kept low, as a few have from the Pavilion End. 60/3 in the 17th.

Nat Brown comes to the crease, maintaining the "Comp at both ends" thing, which is something. Jackson - who is on 5 from 36 balls - needs to start asserting herself.

Jenny Gunn into the attack. Considering the state this outfield was in a week ago, it's sped up a hell of a lot now - Brown gets four with little more than a prod behind square. 66/3 off 18.

WICKET - another for Levick, as Brown nicks one through to Heath, 69/4. Thunder need something special now.

Danielle Collins comes out - as a lefty, she may be a better match-up for Levick.

Jackson is still struggling to score, but she's hanging in there. 74/4 off 23.

78/4 at the half-way stage. Wickets in hand so this isn't done yet - but they need to get a wriggle on. Levick has been very difficult to play, she has two overs left.

Alex MacDonald, fresh from her excellent 92, replaces Gunn from the River End. There's a big LBW appeal against Jackson but it's not given. Levick will bowl out from the other end.

Collins clobbers a MacDonald full toss for four - the first boundary for almost 10 overs. 87/4 after 28 - Thunder need 162 from 22 overs.

Levick's spell finishes - 3/22 from 10 overs. She's made this game very hard to win for Thunder from here. 92/4 from 29.

Couple of singles from a MacDonald over - 94/4 from 30. The DLS par is 134 - not expecting rain, but that shows the scale of the task.

WICKET - MacDonald rattles Collin's timbers as she sizes up a big hit. 97/5 in the 32nd.

The worm here is illustrative - wickets have fallen at much the same rate in both innings - the key difference has been the period since Thunder lost their fourth.

Hollie Armitage drops one short and Jackson pulls it for four - her first boundary, from her 84th delivery. 104/5 off 33.

WICKET - another one keeps low from the Pavilion End and Rebecca Duckworth is trapped LBW. 106/6 in the 35th. Alice Dyson comes out next.

Off to do some comms. Catch me on here --->

I did five minutes then they got a better offer.

The gig is almost up. 151/8 in the 46th.

Two overs to go now, the required rate is a challenging 41 per over. Still, with the games coming thick and fast, you never know what time in the middle can do for the lower order's confidence.

Diamonds win by 83 runs.

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