The Super Series served up a thriller at Oak Hill on Sunday as 50-over champions Scorchers produced a record chase to beat Typhoons by four wickets.

After conceding 328 for four, it looked as if there would be only one winner when Leah Paul took two wickets in three balls to reduce the Scorchers to 208 for six in the 34th over. But an unbroken partnership of 121 between Eimear Richardson and Ava Canning saw their side to a stunning victory with seven balls to spare.

They certainly weren’t chanceless innings and Typhoons will regret at least a couple of straightforward dropped catches but Canning’s 59 not out from 48 balls, which included the only two sixes of the match, and Richardson’s 48 not out from 46, with five fours, is all that the scorebook will recall.

Gaby Lewis had ensured that Scorchers were always up with the run-rate, hitting 81 from 63 balls, with 11 boundaries, before she surprisingly played a loose shot off Alice Walsh to Typhoons skipper Jane Maguire at mid-wicket.

Opposite number Christina Coulter-Reilly with a run-a-ball 26 and Sophie McMahon maintained the momentum and despite Paul taking three wickets – she somehow misjudged a return catch which would have given her a fourth – and Maguire bowling her nine overs for just 37 runs, Scorchers claimed their second win of the season to go top of the table at the halfway stage.

Paul had claims to be player of the match after falling just two runs short of a deserved century. She was fourth out at the start of the 48th over, bowled by Lou Little and there were 70s for Zara Craig and Laura Delany, the former Ireland captain finishing 71 not out from 65 balls.

Only seven runs came off the last over, by Little, although Delany and the rest of the Typhoons probably thought they had done enough. Richardson and Canning disagreed and served up an early evening treat in the Wicklow sunshine.