SOMERSET Women maintained their 100 per cent winning start to the Metro Bank One Day Cup when they beat table toppers Surrey by 136 runs at Taunton.

England international Heather Knight was in splendid, making a century and sharin g in two big partnerships - one with Sophie Luff and the other with Dani Gibson, before spinners Charlie Dean and Lola Harris claimed three wickets apiece to bowl the visitors out with more than 16 overs to spare.

Somerset won the toss, elected to bat and promptly lost openers Niamh Holland and Bex Odgers inside six overs with 28 on the board.

The experienced pair of Knight and captain Luff played sensibly adding 140 in 23 overs before the latter went of 57 which came off 63 balls with four 4s and a 6.

Australian international Anika Learoyd went for 12 pinned lbw in the act of playing and Somerset were 181 for 4.

England all-rounder Gibson then joined Knight and the pair added 85 for the fifth wicket before Knight was out for 103 off 107 balls with nine 4s and two 6s.

Gibson kept up the pressure, hammering 11 fours and 2 sixes as Somerset moved on to a healthy were 296 for six.

Dean then hit 25 from 23 balls and Jess Hazell contributed an unbeaten 18 as Somerset posted 337-9 - their highest ever List-A total, eclipsing the 312 made in matches against Devon in 2015 and Essex in 2025.

Surrey’s response was forthright if nothing else. Bryony Smith was bowled by Alex Griffiths without scoring and Paige Scholfield was pinned in front by Dean and went for 20, but Davidson-Richards and Capsey hit their way out of trouble, mustering a blaze of boundaries in advancing the score to 74 for two by the end of the 10-over powerplay.

These two raised 50 from 39 balls, piercing the field with alarming regularity to build pressure. The stand was worth 76 and Davidson-Richards was two runs short of a half century when she succumbed to Lola Harris’s teasing flight, driving to mid-off, where the diving Knight held on to reduce the visitors to 113 for three.

Somerset’s attempts to apply pressure were undermined by the number of four balls sent down, and Capsey moved serenely to a 46-ball 50 with eight boundaries to maintain the required rate at around six. But Harris took a superb return catch to remove Kira Chathli and Dean claimed the key wicket of Capsey, who steered a back-foot force to Luff at cover and with the score 159 for five. Kalea Moore then fell lbw to Harris as Somerset further tightened their grip. Surrey were by now heavily dependent upon former England star Dani Wyatt-Hodge, who moved effortlessly to 38 from 33 balls with six boundaries. The game was effectively up when she cut a ball from Holland and was brilliantly caught at point by Dean as the Londoners lurched to 195 for seven. Chloe Skelton then accounted for Brown and Gregory in quick succession and Dean returned to bowl Corteen-Coleman as the visitors subsided.

Dean ended with figures of 3 for 22 from 7.2 over, one of which was a maiden, while 19 year old leg spinner Harris ended with 3 for 44 from 7 overs.