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The Hundred Trophy 2024 – match 28 – Phoenix vs Rockets

Birmingham Phoenix vs Trent Rockets at Edgbaston Birmingham, on 12 August 2024; Match remembered for POTM ‘Meerkat match hero’ Nat Sciver-Brunt (pictured) who made top-score for the winning team [34 runs (from 25 balls)]; and was also best Rockets’ bowler taking two wickets, conceding 12 runs. Following her ‘skipper’s knock,’ Nat Sciver-Brunt also became the most

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Half a Hundred Thoughts

One hundred thoughts about The Hundred sounds like the opposite of an un-put-downable book, so here are a mere 50. A dip into the odd game with one round to play. 1 After seven rounds of The Hundred the table could hardly be tighter. Just three points separate franchises 1-7. That leaves Southern Brave –

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England Stars encourage kids to get playing

The ECB has enlisted England stars from the Men’s, Women’s and Disability squads to feature in a new video alongside school children, to get even more kids playing cricket during the summer holidays In the first of two parts, we hear how unique the sport can be to different individuals, who play the game in

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The Hundred Trophy 2024  – match 27 – Originals vs Superchargers

Manchester Originals vs Northern Superchargers at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester on 11 August 2024 A ‘comprehensive win’ for the home side (Originals) who ‘took the game away’ from Roses Rivals (Superchargers) when Kathryn Bryce (pictured) took a ‘hat-trick’ from the last set-of-five balls. Record attendance for watching Women’s cricket at Old Trafford witnessed records tumble. Firstly,

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The Hundred Trophy 2024  – match 26 – Invincibles  vs Spirit

Oval Invincibles  vs London Spirit  at at the Kia Oval (London South) on 11 August 2024  Re-run of last week’s London derby (4 August) upon which occasion points were shared for a tie. Strangely by coincidence, the same three Spirit batters reached double-figures (Deepti Sharma, Cordelia Griffith and Eva Gray) as batters struggled against Invincibles’

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The Hundred Trophy 2024  – match 24 – Brave vs Rockets

Southern Brave vs Trent Rockets at The Utilita Bowl (Southampton, East) on 10 August 2024 Prophetically, commentators believed that the defending champions could ‘cause an upset,’ playing on an ‘excellent pitch.’ Instead, Brave’s title-defence ‘crumbled at home’. As Dinesh Karthik put it afterwards, Rockets outplayed their hosts by a ‘complete performance’ with ‘bat, with ball, and also

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The Hundred Trophy 2024  – match 21 – Fire Superchargers

Welsh Fire vs Northern Superchargers at Cardiff (Sophia Gardens) on 8 August 2024 Two special SKY Sports features were aired during the rain delay, optimistically awaiting the moment when players might make their way to the pitch. *First feature marked the first anniversary Fire’s skipper Tammy Beaumont’s (pictured) century [118 runs (from 61 balls)] played between

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The Garden of England picked clean

Here is a potential XI that will not be appearing in next season’s Tier One: Tammy Beaumont (captain) Sarah Bryce (w-k) Tilly Corteen-Coleman (Canterbury) Alice Davidson-Richards (Tunbridge Wells) Tash Farrant (Sevenoaks via Athens) Phoebe Franklin (Greenwich) Kirstie Gordon Ryana Macdonald-Gay (Maidstone) Kalea Moore (Greenwich) Grace Scrivens (somewhere in Kent!) Alexa Stonehouse (Ashford, Kent) Co-coaches: Laura

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