Durham Rockets became the 2019 Super 4s winners in the second year of the women’s competition.
The team defeated last-year’s champions the Infernos in the final to claim the trophy.
The Super 4s, first introduced last summer, is the only women’s non-club-based competition in Durham and aims to strengthen the structure of the female sport across the county.
The competition features four teams, involving some of the best female cricketers from Durham and the neighbouring counties.
Durham Rockets (128-8; Rachael Petherick 50; Emily Whiting 3-8) beat Durham Infernos (85-8; Hannah Knowles 19; Emma Walsingham 3-12) by 43 runs.
Rachael Petherick, captaining the Rockets, scored a half-century to help her team to a comfortable total of 128 in the 20 overs, as the Infernos struggled to accumulate the runs needed in their innings.
The Rockets elected to bat and for a good reason – opening batter Ciara Boaden hit a boundary in each of the first two overs but her promising start was interrupted early by Hayley Falla.
Bailey Wanless then dismissed Ruby Hutchinson but Annie Anderson, batting at four, gave good support to Petherick, as the two paired for 47.
Laura Ellison, captaining the Infernos, bowled Anderson out for 16 and Lucy Pringle for one, as another two wickets fell from Emma Walsingham in the 16th over, but by that point the Rockets had already gone over 100 runs.
Petherick provided resistance at the crease, hitting four boundaries and three sixes, before getting caught by Lucy Hughes off Walsingham’s ball.
In the second innings, Hannah Knowles, opening the batting for the Infernos, made an impressive start, hitting three boundaries in only the first over but Pringle was quick to dismiss her for 19 in the fifth.
Knowles remained the highest scorer for her team, with only another two of the Infernos’ batters reaching double figures.
Emily Whiting got 3-8, as Pringle made another breakthrough for 2-9. Anderson also got two wickets as the Rockets restricted the Infernos to only 85 to claim the win.
The Infernos and Rockets reached the final after winning their semi-finals against the Panthers and the Hawks respectively.