Georgia Elwiss marshalled her side to victory over Surrey with a brilliant 96 at Beckenham, but praised her teammates after the victory, saying they are stepping up with senior players missing.

Maria Andrews took a brilliant 3-40 during her List A debut for the Blaze, while Prisha Thanawala finished unbeaten on 30 to get the Blaze over the line.

Elwiss said: “We've got a lot of inexperience in this dressing room at the moment, but people are stepping up and showing that they can do it at this level, which is great.

“I’m pleased that Prisha played a really good innings as well, coming in and looking wise beyond her years as well.”

“It was difficult at times out there. Surrey changed their bowlers quite regularly, and you had to readjust to plans, which made it a little bit more difficult.

“But we love batting together, me and Marie, so we were really pleased to be able to put on a partnership and extend it. I think we complement each other with where we hit the ball, so it's always difficult for bowling sides to bowl at both of us.

“We knew a couple of big partnerships and we'd be okay, and it's important that you see out chases like that and get as close to the end as you can.

Elwiss put on 136 with captain Marie Kelly as they looked to chase the 252 set by Surrey. Beckenham is often a run-fest and Elwiss praised the bowling attack for keeping a lid on the hosts.

“To restrict Surrey to 250 at Beckenham, you've done a really good job with the ball, so credit to the bowlers.

“It probably wasn't your typical Beckenham wicket. There was a little bit more in it for the bowlers than usual.

“We know it's a quick scoring ground at Beckenham, and we probably hadn't hit our straps early. We had a lot of nicks behind, which was frustrating, so it was probably just holding our nerve and bowling the areas that we wanted to.

“Through the middle, the spinners, Maria [Andrews] and Lucy [Higham], in particular, were outstanding at squeezing and putting pressure on them, and then we sort of took wickets quite regularly throughout the back end of their innings to stem their run flow.”

Andrews has featured in the Blast this year, but was making her One Day Cup debut and was exceptional. She combined flight and control to pile the pressure on Surrey.

“She's brilliant. You’d never know that she's so young and played so little first-team cricket. We're delighted with her.

“She sticks to her strength. She's got that consistency, and on a pitch where there’s a little bit of a slope, it offered her a little bit of turn, and I thought she bowled really nicely, in nice areas, and she probably should have hell of a lot more wickets, if we could catch the ball.

“She was brilliant, and like I said, when she put a partnership together with Lucy at the other end, we were able to squeeze them and get the breakthroughs.”

Georgia Elwiss marshalled her side to victory over Surrey with a brilliant 96 at Beckenham, but praised her teammates after the victory, saying they are stepping up with senior players missing.

Maria Andrews took a brilliant 3-40 during her List A debut for the Blaze, while Prisha Thanawala finished unbeaten on 30 to get the Blaze over the line.

Elwiss said: “We've got a lot of inexperience in this dressing room at the moment, but people are stepping up and showing that they can do it at this level, which is great.

“I’m pleased that Prisha played a really good innings as well, coming in and looking wise beyond her years as well.”

“It was difficult at times out there. Surrey changed their bowlers quite regularly, and you had to readjust to plans, which made it a little bit more difficult.

“But we love batting together, me and Marie, so we were really pleased to be able to put on a partnership and extend it. I think we complement each other with where we hit the ball, so it's always difficult for bowling sides to bowl at both of us.

“We knew a couple of big partnerships and we'd be okay, and it's important that you see out chases like that and get as close to the end as you can.

Elwiss put on 136 with captain Marie Kelly as they looked to chase the 252 set by Surrey. Beckenham is often a run-fest and Elwiss praised the bowling attack for keeping a lid on the hosts.

“To restrict Surrey to 250 at Beckenham, you've done a really good job with the ball, so credit to the bowlers.

“It probably wasn't your typical Beckenham wicket. There was a little bit more in it for the bowlers than usual.

“We know it's a quick scoring ground at Beckenham, and we probably hadn't hit our straps early. We had a lot of nicks behind, which was frustrating, so it was probably just holding our nerve and bowling the areas that we wanted to.

“Through the middle, the spinners, Maria [Andrews] and Lucy [Higham], in particular, were outstanding at squeezing and putting pressure on them, and then we sort of took wickets quite regularly throughout the back end of their innings to stem their run flow.”

Andrews has featured in the Blast this year, but was making her One Day Cup debut and was exceptional. She combined flight and control to pile the pressure on Surrey.

“She's brilliant. You’d never know that she's so young and played so little first-team cricket. We're delighted with her.

“She sticks to her strength. She's got that consistency, and on a pitch where there’s a little bit of a slope, it offered her a little bit of turn, and I thought she bowled really nicely, in nice areas, and she probably should have hell of a lot more wickets, if we could catch the ball.

“She was brilliant, and like I said, when she put a partnership together with Lucy at the other end, we were able to squeeze them and get the breakthroughs.”