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Alice Davidson-Richards hit an unbeaten 90 as South East Stars beat Southern Vipers to reach the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy final.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Stars were in trouble at Beckenham when Georgia Elwiss (3-39) reduced them to 131-7 with 15.3 overs left, chasing 221.<\/p>\n
But Kalea Moore stroked an unbeaten run-a-ball 52 in an unbroken 90-run stand with Davidson-Richards as the pair guided them home by three wickets with seven balls to spare.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Nancy Harman (39), Elwiss (34) and stand-in skipper Emily Windsor (30) had helped the Vipers recover from 36-3 to post 220-9.<\/p>\n
The Stars will play Sunrisers, who stunned Northern Diamonds in the other semi, at the Uptonsteel County Ground in Leicester in the final next Saturday.<\/p>\n
Vipers, who lifted the trophy 12 months ago, elected to bat first but struggled to build partnerships after Tilly Corteen-Coleman and Alexa Stonehouse removed the top three cheaply.<\/p>\n
Five batters in the middle and lower order made starts, but none were able to reach 40 as Corteen-Coleman (3-33), Stonehouse (2-53) and Danielle Gregory (2-31) chipped away.<\/p>\n
Alice Monaghan (26) and Harman added 48 for the seventh wicket – Vipers’ biggest partnership – to help drag the total to a below-par 220-9 from 50 overs.<\/p>\n
But the target soon looked challenging as Freya Davies (2-37) made early inroads, and when Elwiss bowled stand-in captain Kira Chathli for a first-ball duck, the hosts had subsided to 55-4.<\/p>\n
Aylish Cranstone steadied the ship with a 29-ball knock of 27, but Vipers looked in control when Priyanaz Chatterji became Elwiss’ third victim midway through the 34th over.<\/p>\n
But 21-year-old Moore had other ideas with a well-paced knock, bringing up her fifty off 49 balls shortly before Davidson-Richards hit the winning single, her unbeaten 90 from 107 balls adding to group-stage knocks of 70, 70 and 79.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n