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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 –
Oval Invincibles vs Southern Brave at the Kia Oval (London South) on 8 August 2024 Upon arrival, flags were seen lowered to half-mast, out of respect for the tragic passing of former England player Graham Thorpe MBE, who ‘spent 17 years playing for Surrey’ and earned 100 Test caps for England as a brilliant middle-order
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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