Finty Trussler etched her name into the Southern Premier League annals by becoming the first woman cricketer to make a league half-century - her 51 being key in St Cross Symondians IIs tight 11-run win over Division 3 neighbours Hursley Park at the Green Jackets.
St Cross had slipped to 50-4 and, after a stand between Charlie Harden (55) and Riley Sacco (47), were far from out of the woods at 124-5, Alex Blogg and Oli Green taking two wickets each.
Stand-in skipper Dave Orchard (28) was happy to play a support role as the arrival of Finty Trussler [left] at the crease lit up the proceedings.
According to Crosstalk, Symondians' in-house newsletter "With a casual swagger that made the chaos around her look almost rehearsed, Finty played an ice-cold innings of 51 from just 46 balls, dispatching anything loose and some things that weren’t, all while rotating the strike like a metronome with a point to prove.
"Unbothered by the scoreboard pressure or the surrounding collapse, she batted like it was a Sunday morning net and walked off (with eight boundaries under her belt) like it was just another day at the office."
St Cross closed 225-9 before Aaron Hockey produced figures of 5-21 to leave Hursley Park 67-5 (Munish Khurana 36). Through Green (39) and latterly Matt Musgrove (41*) they closed the gap to 214 all out.
Finty Trussler's weekend wasn't finished by any means. Playing women's county cricket for Middlesex nowadays, he she broke individual T20 score previously held by Sophia Dunkley with 90 off 56 balls against Gloucestershire. Her 'net' session with St Cross seconds clearly paid off !
St Cross had slipped to 50-4 and, after a stand between Charlie Harden (55) and Riley Sacco (47), were far from out of the woods at 124-5, Alex Blogg and Oli Green taking two wickets each.
Stand-in skipper Dave Orchard (28) was happy to play a support role as the arrival of Finty Trussler [left] at the crease lit up the proceedings.
According to Crosstalk, Symondians' in-house newsletter "With a casual swagger that made the chaos around her look almost rehearsed, Finty played an ice-cold innings of 51 from just 46 balls, dispatching anything loose and some things that weren’t, all while rotating the strike like a metronome with a point to prove.
"Unbothered by the scoreboard pressure or the surrounding collapse, she batted like it was a Sunday morning net and walked off (with eight boundaries under her belt) like it was just another day at the office."
St Cross closed 225-9 before Aaron Hockey produced figures of 5-21 to leave Hursley Park 67-5 (Munish Khurana 36). Through Green (39) and latterly Matt Musgrove (41*) they closed the gap to 214 all out.
Finty Trussler's weekend wasn't finished by any means. Playing women's county cricket for Middlesex nowadays, he she broke individual T20 score previously held by Sophia Dunkley with 90 off 56 balls against Gloucestershire. Her 'net' session with St Cross seconds clearly paid off !
