Defending champions Surrey moved to the top of the Women’s T20 Blast table with a 34-run win over The Blaze at Trent Bridge.

Phoebe Franklin led the way with 46 off 30 balls as Surrey scored 155-9, despite Charli Knott’s incredible figures of 6-25.

Kalea Moore then took 5-22, a first five-wicket haul, as The Blaze collapsed for 2-for-98 to be bowled out for just 121.

Elsewhere, Yorkshire finally won for the first time this season with an 11-run victory against Somerset as Lauren Winfield-Hill and Sterre Kalis equaled the world record for the highest fourth-wicket partnership in women’s T20 cricket, with 167.

Under the Nottingham sun, Surrey’s victory lifted them above their hosts with six wins from nine matches and The Blaze dropped to third place after a second defeat of the campaign.

On a tricky surface, the substance of Surrey’s innings came in an 82-run fifth-wicket partnership between Franklin and Alice Monaghan, who made 35 off 27 balls.

Australian all-rounder Knott took a career-best six-wicket haul for The Blaze and is now the leading wicket-taker in the competition with 16.

Knott also made 28 off 23 balls as The Blaze entered the contest at 98-2 in the 13th over with Tammy Beaumont making 37 off 36 deliveries and Kathryn Bryce 31 off 21.

But the hosts then collapsed miserably, losing their last eight wickets in 23 runs to lose by a huge margin.

At Headingley, Yorkshire had lost seven of their previous eight games, but captain Winfield-Hill scored a career-high 99 off 55 balls and Dutch star Kalis 84 not off 50, as Yorkshire totaled 210-4, the highest total of any team in this year’s Blast.

Somerset started their chase well, but their task was too difficult.

Australia’s Anika Learoyd was the top scorer with a career-best unbeaten 103 off 49 balls, including four sixes. But England’s Sarah Glenn impressed Yorkshire with 2-30 and Somerset responded with 199-5.

Despite a first win, Yorkshire remain bottom of the table, while a fourth defeat in nine games dents Somerset’s finals day ambitions as they sit in fifth place.