Somerset win from 21 for 5 after dramatic Yorkshire collapse

Somerset 130 (Rainey 3-16, Glenn 3-24, Woolston 3-25) beat Yorkshire 125 (Skelton 4-28, Anderson 3-31) by five runs

An extraordinary finish at Headingley saw Somerset recover from 21 for 5 claim a dramatic five-run win over Yorkshire in a low-scoring thriller.

But with four wickets falling with the score stuck on 121 and then the tenth on 125, Yorkshire somehow managed to contrive a defeat with Chloe Skelton finishing with 4 for 28 and Ellie Anderson 3 for 31 after a madcap climax.

Yorkshire got off to the best possible start when Bex Odgers left Rainey's first delivery of the match only to see it cannon into middle stump.

Rainey's hot streak continued into her second over as she bowled Emma Corney for 6 before Niamh Holland cut her first ball straight to Glenn at cover to leave Somerset 9 for 3 after 18 balls.

Woolston joined the party in the fourth over as she accounted for skipper Sophie Luff, edging behind for 2, and when Woolston claimed her second wicket, trapping Katie Jones in front for 7, Somerset were 21 for 5.

Salvation came as the sun came out and batting got easier with Jasmine Westley and Jess Hazell beginning a slow recovery. The sixth-wicket pair put on 66 runs off 93 balls to give the innings some semblance of respectability until Glenn dismissed both in the same over as Westley skied one to mid-off for 28 and Hazell was bowled by a half-tracker for 33.

Alex Griffiths was run out soon afterwards to leave Somerset 94 for 8 and they were indebted to the ninth wicket pair of Skelton and Anderson who managed to eke out 31 runs before both Woolston and Glenn picked up their third victims to finish with 3 for 25 and 3 for 24 respectively.

Yorkshire's reply suffered a quick setback with Lauren Winfield-Hall departing second ball of the innings after top-edging Anderson. Alice Clarke was next to go for 6, caught behind off Anderson, and when Jess Jonassen chipped one to midwicket in the same over, suddenly the modest target looked a long way off at 22 for 3.

Level heads were needed and Erin Thomas and Sterre Kalis provided them as the compiled a 52-run partnership before Thomas was caught at mid-on by Luff off Lola Harris for 29.

Ami Campbell came to the crease in determined mood, smashing the game's only six, as she and Kalis attempted to get the hosts over the line.

Kalis was bowled sweeping by Skelton for 23 but Campbell was not to be denied, hitting five boundaries in her knock of 35 off 17 balls, before she was run out coming back for three with just ten runs to win.

Then came the late drama with Langston bowled by Skelton first ball and then Woolston fourth ball, before Glenn and Rainey also subsided as Yorkshire lost their last five wickets for four runs.