Tons of excitement as Yorkshire and Durham tie

England A all-rounder Turner helped inserted Durham recover from 53 for four in the East Coast sunshine to post 290 for eight, a total also including Bess Heath’s Durham best of 70 off 52 balls. Turner’s 100 not out off 82 balls represented her maiden competitive century.

Australian all-rounder Jonassen then posted 104 off 109 balls and looked to have put the White Rose in a great position at 207 for four in the 37th over. It was her second ton in ton in as many games.

But four run outs, including Rachel Slater trying to sramble a single through to wicketkeeper Tahlia Wilson off the last ball from Turner, left Yorkshire 290 all out. Yorkshire have won two, lost two and tied one. Durham have won one, lost three and tied one.

Yorkshire’s 16-year-old all-rounder Ines Blackwell struck three early blows with her seam, getting Australian Wilson, Mady Villiers and captain Hollie Armitage. She finished with a career best four for 61 from 10 overs.

Both 22-year-old Turner, who also struck once with the ball, and Heath played county cricket for Yorkshire and the Headingley-based Northern Diamonds before joining Durham ahead of 2025.

Both benefitted from Yorkshire’s profligacy in the field.

Heath set the ball rolling on the visiting recovery, though she was dropped twice in the deep en-route to a 37-ball fifty.

Turner was later dropped on 93 reaching her century with a two to long-on off the last ball of the innings.

Durham fell from 41 without loss after nine overs to 53 for four in the 12th.

Blackwell’s in-swing had Wilson chipping to midwicket in the 10th, Villiers bowled next ball and, in the 12th, captain Armitage trapped lbw playing back.

Heath shared 71 for the fifth wicket with Emily Windsor and then 56 for the sixth with Turner before falling to a superb one-handed catch at cover from Jess Woolston having cut Maddie Ward’s spin.

At that stage, Durham were 180 for six in the 31st over before Turner, who shared 61 for the seventh wicket with Katherine Fraser, led late acceleration towards 300 and punched the air in delight as she reached three figures for the first time in a competitive match.

Lauren Filer then forced home captain Lauren Winfield-Hill to play on with the first legitimate ball of the chase - following a wide - before Rebecca Duckworth was trapped lbw by a Trudy Johnson in-swinger in the second over, leaving the score at four for two.

But Jonassen and Dutch international Sterre Kalis, who posted 79, turned things around with a fourth-wicket 121 stand from 86 for three.

But when Jonassen top-edged a sweep at Katie Levick’s leg-spin and was caught at short fine-leg, followed by Kalis bowled by Turner - 229 for five in the 40th over, it set the wheels in motion on a damaging collapse.

Jonassen had reached her hundred off 104 balls, but it was in vain as Blackwell, Beth Langston and Claudie Cooper were all run out.

That left 10 needed off the last over from Turner.

Slater struck a leg-side six before striker Woolston missed the last ball with a single needed, Slater ran and Wilson threw down the striker’s stumps to cap an incredible game of cricket.

Yorkshire’s head coach Rich Pyrah said: “I think, again, it probably shows where we're at. You know, you take out the dropped catches and the run outs and we should have won that game.

“But we've shown the skill in certain areas of the game, and we've shown a lot of character to take that to get a tie from where we were eight or nine wickets down. We did really well, but I also thought there were certain passages of play that's let us down today.

“I don't try and get too caught up in the results side, but it's the way we're playing. We played unbelievably well against The Blaze and Lancs. We played well in patches against Surrey and Somerset and again today.

“I keep saying to people, ‘Just remember where we were at 18 months ago’. I think we counted seven Northern Diamond girls playing for Durham today that would have been playing if it had carried on.

“From where we were at 18 months ago to where we are now after the first five games, it's pleasing, but there's definitely areas that we can still improve on.”

Durham’s all-rounder Phoebe Turner said: “We knew it was going to be a tough game today, playing in conditions where some of us have played and some of us haven’t.

“But I’m really ecstatic about my hundred and it being my first for Durham.

“These games can happen, and there are a lot of learnings, like how we fought back from our last game (defeat at Hampshire). Different people have stood up today. So, yeah, really good.

“Bess batted amazing, and her and Emily created a really good platform for me and Katherine Fraser to come in. The longer we batted, the easier it got.

“For me, I knew I needed to bat time, stay in until the end, bat in partnerships and get a big score. We always talk about someone stepping up in crucial moments, and I wanted to be that one.”

Metro Bank One-Day Cup: Yorkshire 290 all out v Durham 290-8. Match Tied. 

Yorkshire 2 points, Durham 2 points