It's not how you start tournaments, it's how you finish them says Cross

Kate Cross is hoping the fortnight's break from action will provide Lancashire Thunder with a "natural reset" as they bid to turnaround their Vitality Blast fortunes.

- by Sports Reporter

The Red Rose have significant work to do to make it into the top three places for Finals Day having only won three of their first eight games.

With six to go, including back-to-back fixtures this weekend, and a maximum 30 points available, Cross and company are 13 points adrift of The Blaze in third.

Lancashire host Essex at Emirates Old Trafford today (11am), as part of a T20 double header day with the county's men, before hosting the Bears at the same venue on Sunday afternoon.

The county have not played since losing against The Blaze at Leicester on June 19, the day after they were also beaten by Surrey down at The Oval.

"We didn't have the start to the campaign that we would have liked," said England seamer Cross. "But the break was a natural reset where we could recharge the batteries and have the opportunity to go again in the second half.