Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy final: Sunrisers beat South East Stars to claim first silverware

Stars number four Davidson-Richards is the trophy’s top scorer this season with 650 runs, but was at the crease earlier than she would have liked.

Coppack clean bowled Alexa Stonehouse and then Paige Scholfield in the space of three balls to leave Stars 6-2 after just 10 balls.

The hole grew deeper when a mix-up saw skipper Bryony Smith run out for 11, and Stars slumped to 53-4 when Kira Chathli was trapped in front to become Coppack’s third victim.

However, the batting side looked to have weathered the storm as Aylish Cranstone (30) helped add 70 for the fifth wicket.

She was stumped off after sharp work from Amara Carr, but Davidson-Richards continued her scintillating recent form, driving well down the ground and looking untroubled as she brought up her seventh half-century of this season’s competition off 61 balls.

Phoebe Franklin also added momentum, hitting five fours, but was bowled in Coppack’s final over for 33 before the Sunrisers’ slow bowlers took a tight grip.

Stars went more than 10 overs without a boundary as Scrivens (0-21 off 8.2 overs) and Mady Villiers (1-48) turned the screw in the latter part of the innings.

Davidson-Richards smashed Jodi Grewcock for the only six of the innings as Stars looked for late acceleration, but was then pinned in front by Villiers in the 46th over, before a third calamitous run-out ended the innings early.