Metro Bank One Day Cup - Women: Scholfield spearheads Surrey victory after controversial Winfield-Hill dismissal

The South African-born right-hander flayed the White Rose county to all parts in a devastating display of hitting as, despite a late wobble, the hosts chased down a revised target of 193 with 19.3 overs to spare at the Kia Oval.

Earlier the Yorkshire innings of 185 became embroiled in controversy when skipper and former England opener Lauren Winfield-Hill showed dissent after being wrongly given out for 60, a display of petulance which cost her side five penalty runs.

Georgie Boyce and Jess Jonassen provided as wicket apiece for Tilly Corteen-Coleman (3-27) and Kalea Moore (3-22) before Winfield-Hill and Stere Kalis batted positively.

Winfield-Hill unfurled an array of shots all around the wicket, There was a cut behind square and a punch through midwicket, before another shot off the thigh scorched to the fence at square leg as she raced to 50 in 55 balls.

Kalis (38) too found her rhythm crashing two free hits from Alice Monaghan through mid-off for four.

The controversy that ended their stand of 74 came shortly after a rain delay, Winfield-Hill given out after being struck on the helmet. Her reluctance to leave the crease and continued remonstrations while making her way off, leading the umpires to impose the five-run penalty.

The incident had a doubly detrimental effect with Kalis departing just two balls after her captain nicking Maitlin Brown through to wicketkeeper Kira Chatli.

Thereafter, despite cameos from Maddie Ward and Ami Campbell, Yorkshire fell away, their last four wickets falling without a run scored.

Surrey lost Bryony Smith early in their reply, but still got off to a flier courtesy of two sixes in an over from Scholfield, Claudie Cooper the bowler on the receiving end.

Scholfield was given a life on 40, a lofted drive brushing the tips of Beth Langston’s fingers at mid-on, the ball travelling all the way for four to rub salt in the wound.

Scare survived, Scholfield raised her half century in 25 balls with her ninth four and eight more boundaries followed before she and skipper Kira Chathli fell in successive balls to Ward (3-38).

The seamer flattened Jemima Spence’s stumps to claim a third wicket and when Beth Langston bowled Brown for nought Yorkshire sniffed an unlikely win.

Moore’s dismissal for a sprightly 16 further raised the tension, but England all-rounder Alice Davidson-Richards, who’d hit one towering six, kept her head to make an unbeaten 35, winning the game with successive fours.

Yorkshire head coach Richard Pyrah said: "I feel like we are doing 50 per cent of the job well and the last 50 we are just letting ourselves down a little bit and that is probably where we are as a team. The first half of the batting up until the rain break, I thought we were outstanding, building a partnership and just getting going. #

"After the break we lost five wickets for nine runs and the last four wickets for no runs and you are going to struggle from there aren't you?

"They got off to a good start coming at us hard, but we've got great character within the team and to get them seven down. If we'd got another 50 runs we'd have been well in the game.

"We are in tier one, it's the second game where we've come to the Oval, the majority of these girls have never played here before. We are playing against Surrey, one of the strongest squads in the country and we competed.

"We need better game management, doing things better for longer periods of time and getting used to the pace of tier one. We saw with the fielding when Paige Scholfield was coming out hard we didn't field very well against it and that is just not being used to that pace of cricket."

On the Lauren Winfield-Hill disciplinary incident, he added: "You get bad decisions in a game, it's part of the game. It changed the game completely. It wasn't out, and then the management around it was pretty poor and it spoilt it a little bit and knocked us back.

"That is a lack of game awareness, lack of experience. Some of the youngsters were still talking about it an hour later. We've got to learn from it. It definitely affected us and I've spoken about the emotional control we are probably lacking in key moments. You are not going to get every decision go your way, but you've got to manage it better."

Surrey batter Paige Scholfield said: "We are happy with the win and that's two games now and we're two from two. It got a bit sketchy at the end.

"We started off well and then allowed them to get that one partnership and with our standards we don't want to allow that to happen because that is where the game can get away from you, so we discussed that in the rain break and when we came out we were a bit more ruthless.

"The pitch helped me a lot because it is a lovely pitch at The Oval. Alice (Monaghan) was going to open originally but felt unwell and Mybs (Johann Myburgh) asked me if I wanted to open and I said yes. I took the game on with my natural game, not getting too complicated with it and the pitch allowed me to do that.

"It wasn't the ending we wanted in terms of how we got the win, but we bat deep, so we were always confident we were going to get there with the start we made. Ideally in the future we don't let it get that close at the end."