Five-for Fi finishes off hosts as Lancs build on impressive show with bat

Lancashire recorded a third successive win by hammering Warwickshire by 101 runs in the Metro Bank One-Day Cup women's competition at Edgbaston.

- by Sports Reporter

The visitors' total of 276 for eight was built by a strong start and finish.

Emma Lamb (88 from 84 balls) and Katie Mack (57, 86) laid a solid platform and, after a wobble induced by spinner Georgia Davis (three for 45), Sophie Ecclestone (50, 49) led a second wave which took the total from solid to imposing.

Warwickshire then succumbed for 175 all out (Katie George 35, 38), as Fi Morris took out numbers two, three and four in 12 balls on her way to five for 48 to sentence the home side to a third successive defeat.

After choosing to bat, Lancashire took an early hit when Eve Jones, back at the ground when she scored so many runs as a home player, fell to the eighth ball, lbw to an inswinger yorker from George.