Women’s Hundred results 2024

‘The Hundred’ Women’s Cricket Tournament results for Summer 2024 Results are listed below with links to match reports, arranged by venue * Birmingham, at Edgbaston Saturday, 3 Aug – Birmingham Phoenix 137/7 beat Southern Brave 121/10 by 16 runs – match 13@url http://4theloveofsport.co.uk/2024/08/03/the-hundred-trophy-2024-match-13-phoenix-vs-brave/ Tuesday, 6 Aug – Northern Superchargers 115/5 beat Birmingham Phoenix 54/10 by

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Source: Julian Thompson

The Hundred Trophy Final 2024 – match 34 – Fire vs Spirit

Welsh Fire vs London Spirit at Lord’s (St John’s Wood, north London) on 18 August 2024 A record crowd of 22,000 spectators for watching women’s cricket at Lord’s witnessed a ‘nail-biter’ that went down to the last three balls. Although the TV statisticians match-outcome predictor favoured Spirit to win, there was very little to choose

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Source: Julian Thompson

The Hundred Trophy 2024 Eliminator – match 33

Oval Invincibles vs London Spirit at the Kia Oval, London (South) on 17 August 2024; ‘Spirit’ beat ‘Invincibles’ in a low-scoring match in which Spirit won convincingly with bat-and-ball before a crowd of 15,800 spectators. Firstly, nearly half of balls bowled by Spirit were non-scoring ‘dot’ balls (46/100 vs 31/91.) Secondly the standard of fielding became

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Predicting the Unpredictable

The last two matches in the 2024 Hundred Three franchises have the chance of walking off with The Hundred trophy this year, but they don’t include permanent winners, Southern Brave. That’s one welcome effect of the Draft. Their bowling line-up in the last match looked ragged. Some ingredients for success in a cricket match as

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Source: Julian Thompson

The Hundred Trophy 2024 – match 32 – Phoenix vs  Originals

Birmingham Phoenix vs Manchester Originals at Birmingham, (Edgbaston)  on 15 August 2024; Match started on time, with Phoenix batting first until rain stopped play on 68/2. It rain continuously for at least an hour until Umpires had no appetite to continue, and decided the match was abandoned. Commentators for SkySports who presented highlights of the Women’s

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Source: Julian Thompson

The Hundred Trophy 2024  – match 25 – Fire vs Phoenix

Welsh Fire vs Birmingham Phoenix  at Cardiff (Sophia Gardens) on 10 August 2024 Phoenix chalked-up a ‘major win,’ away to top-of-table Fire. Between innings commentators sounded confident that Fire would win after Hayley Matthews took a 3-fer (3/32.) Once Hayley Matthews had departed with her bat, Fire’s run chase began to falter. Four wickets fell for four

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Source: Julian Thompson

The Hundred Trophy 2024 – match 30 – Brave vs Fire

Southern Brave vs Welsh Fire  at Southampton, East (Utilita Bowl) on 14 August 2024; Top-team Fire made a ‘commanding performance’ that knocked-out the defending champions by a wide margin of nine wickets. Batting first, Brave quickly lost Danni Wyatt and Smriti Mandhana to mis-timed shots from spin (Hayley Matthews) and pace (Shabnim Ismail. Commentators reported

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Source: Julian Thompson

The Hundred Trophy 2024  – match 31 – Rockets vs Invincibles

Trent Rockets vs Oval Invincibles  at  Nottingham (Trent Bridge) on 14 August 2024; Spectators witnessed ‘great drama’  in which a ‘dog fight’ was said by the winning skipper to decide which team played the Eliminator, with Fire lying-in-wait for the tournament’s final. Batting first on a ‘dry pitch’ with ‘plenty of turn on offer’ and ‘quick

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The Hundred Trophy 2024 – match 29 – Superchargers vs Spirit

Northern Superchargers vs London Spirit at Headingley (Leeds) on 13 August 2024; Beefed-up as a ‘winner-takes-all’ match, commentators later confirmed that Superchargers were eliminated by their defeat on their home ground. Spirit as visitors ‘won in good style,’ thanks mainly to a decisive 71-run partnership between skipper Heather Knight and international player Deepti Sharma (India) who

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