Hope Take the Crown at ECS-W Pink Lady cricket, 2026 in Regensburg

ECS-W Pink Lady Cricket, 2026 delivered two days of tight T10 cricket at Regensburg Cricket Ground in Germany, with Hope finishing as champions. Across eight completed matches, the three-team Senior Womens Invitational Players event brought together Hope, Fearless and Unity in a contest where setting and chasing proved perfectly balanced.

The Tournament in Numbers

ECS-W Pink Lady, 2026 ran from Saturday 26 September 2026 to Sunday 27 September 2026 at Regensburg Cricket Ground in Regensburg, Germany.

The event featured 3 teams, with Hope, Fearless and Unity producing a compact but fiercely contested tournament. In the end, congratulations go to Hope, winners of ECS-W Pink Lady Cricket, 2026.

Across eight matches of action, the tournament produced 905 runs at an average of 6.1 runs per over. Put another way, scoring moved along at 0.83 runs per ball, or 83.0 runs per 100 balls.

There were 70 dismissals in all, with batters averaging 12.9 runs per dismissal. Wickets and run outs arrived at a rate of 4.8 dismissals per ten overs, while the bowlers kept things tight with a dot-ball percentage of 52%.

Teams batting first won 50% of the time, making ECS-W Pink Lady, 2026 a wonderfully even contest between defending totals and chasing them down.

Batting: Ameya Leads the Run Charts

Ameya Kanukuntla was the standout run-scorer of ECS-W Pink Lady, 2026, finishing with 86 runs for Fearless across 6 matches.

Ameya also produced the highest individual score of the tournament, an unbeaten 38 from 25 balls for Fearless against Unity in Match 1. That same opening match also gave us the highest team total of the event, with Unity posting 80-4 in 10 overs against Fearless.

Power-hitting had its moments too. The tournament saw 9 maximos overall, arriving at a rate of 0.6 per ten overs, with one maximo coming every 98.2 balls. Ameya Kanukuntla led that category as well, striking 4 maximos for Fearless across 2 matches.

Fours came at 3.7 per ten overs, while the overall tally of scoring shots to the rope or beyond reached 54. Those shots produced 270 runs, accounting for 30% of the tournament’s total scoring.

Hope supplied one of the sharpest bursts of the event, taking 20 runs from the third over of Match 2 against Fearless — the most runs scored in any over during ECS-W Pink Lady, 2026.

Tight Matches and Big Moments

Low totals were never out of the fight in Regensburg.

Unity showed that best in Match 3, defending 58 against Hope to win by 10 runs — the lowest score successfully defended in the tournament.

The highest successful chase also came at 58, with Fearless beating Unity by 8 wickets in the Qualifier, getting home with 2 balls to spare. That summed up the event nicely: margins were tight, and every over mattered.

Bowling: Andrea-Mae Zepeda Dominates for Hope

Andrea-Mae Zepeda was right at the heart of Hope’s title-winning campaign.

They topped the bowling charts with 10 wickets in 5 matches and delivered the best figures of ECS-W Pink Lady, 2026: 4/3 in 2.0 overs for Hope against Fearless in Match 5.

Zepeda was also named the event’s Most Valuable Player. Representing Hope in the completed ECS-W Pink Lady, 2026 event in Regensburg, they played 5 matches, bowled in 5, and batted in 4.

Their MVP record featured 427 fantasy points, 62 balls bowled, 38 runs conceded, an economy rate of 3.7, a bowling strike rate of 7.8, and 8 wickets taken. Their best match bowling on the MVP card was 4/3 in 2.1 overs for Hope against Fearless on Sunday 27 September 2026.

With the bat, Zepeda scored 50 runs from 62 balls, averaging 12.5 with a strike rate of 80.6. Their top score was 25 from 20 balls for Hope against Fearless on Sunday 27 September 2026, while 12.0% of their batting runs came through fours and maximos. They hit 1 maximo in the event, at a rate of 1.0 per ten overs, with their top maximo tally in a match also 1 against Fearless on Sunday 27 September 2026.

Zepeda’s wider player record also listed 6 events played in, along with Austria as their national team.

Fielding: Keepers and Fielders Make Their Mark

Behind the stumps, Zuzana Frañovâ of Unity led the wicketkeeping charts with 8 dismissals in 4 matches. That haul included 4 catches as keeper, 1 stumping, and 3 run outs — a superb all-round keeping contribution.

In the outfield, Tara Raghu of Hope finished as the leading fielder with 3 dismissals in 3 matches, made up of 2 catches and 1 run out.

A Memorable ECS-W Pink Lady, 2026

ECS-W Pink Lady, 2026 packed plenty into its two match days: tight chases, defendable totals, standout spells, sharp fielding, and a title run for Hope.

A huge thank you to the Tournament organiser Esmarie Fournet-Fayat, the clubs Hope, Fearless and Unity, and every player involved for their contributions to a completed ECS-W tournament in Regensburg. Hope walk away as champions, and ECS-W Pink Lady Cricket, 2026 leaves behind a tidy set of numbers and plenty of memorable moments.