Trent Rockets vs Southern Brave at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on 1 August (15h00) Fireworks announced the first match of this season’s Women’s ‘The Hundred.’ Opening Day win for Southern Brave, with match-winning performances with the bat by Smriti Mandhana’s ‘fifty’ with 2 ‘sixes;’ and teen debutante seamer Mary Taylor taking most wickets (3/18.) The match reached its climax
The Hundred Final (W) – Southern Brave vs Oval Invincibles at Lord’s on 3 September (15h00) Oval Invincibles won The Hundred Women’s trophy for a second time, beating Southern Brave by 5 wickets. Previously, both teams lost one match during the group stage, but were not drawn to play against each other until now. POTM
The Hundred Eliminator (W) – Southern Brave vs Trent Rockets at Southampton (The Ageas Bowl Stadium) on 2 September (15h00) Winners were assured of playing in the tournament’s final match at Lord’s. Losers were eliminated from this year’s tournament. POTM match hero Tahlia McGrath said she was happy ‘to get the win,’ and ‘excited to
Northern Superchargers vs Southern Brave at Leeds (Headingley) on 31 August (11h30) The twenty-third women’s match of ‘The Hundred’ tournament was between Brave: expecting a sixth back-to-back win, for a free ticket to Saturday’s final; without needing to play the qualifying ‘Eliminator.’ Also Superchargers, needing to win to snatch third-place from Rockets. If Superchargers won with superior net-run-rate to Rockets, this match became a dress-rehearsal for Friday’s
Southern Brave vs Trent Rockets at Southampton (Ageas Bowl) on 25 August (15h30) The seventeenth women’s match of ‘The Hundred’ was billed by commentators as the first opportunity for Brave to get through to the next stage of the tournament with maximum points. Brave did this convincingly, by skittling eight of their opponent’s wickets: Rockets setting a
Welsh Fire vs Southern Brave at Cardiff (Sophia Gardens) on 22 August (15h00) TV pundits correctly predicted the fourteenth women’s match outcome of ‘The Hundred,’ before a single ball was bowled. POTM match-hero was England’s Sophia Dunkley who made top-score 49. Dunkley was fortunate when dropped at ‘square-leg’ on 12, but unfortunate not to make
Southern Brave vs Manchester Originals at The Ageas Bowl Southampton on 18 August (15h30) Australia’s Amanda-Jade Wellington second 3-fer turned the tenth women’s match of ‘The Hundred’ from what seemed to commentators like a ‘perfect position’ (for Originals forecast to win) into a procession of batters, each failing to make double-figures. Receiving ‘match hero’ from
Southern Brave vs London Spirit at Southampton (Ageas Bowl) on 12 August at 14h30 The second women’s match of ‘The Hundred’ saw Australia’s Beth Mooney (Commonwealth games gold medallist) set a new record score 97* not out – for the women’s contest but she ended-up on losing-side. One final ’six’ by Freya Kemp (pictured) saw
Oval Invincibles vs Southern Brave at the Kia Oval on 14 August (14h30) Brave were said to be ‘the better team,’ winning the sixth women’s match of ‘The Hundred’ with ‘a complete all-round performance.’ POTM match hero Georgia Adams (pictured) took two decisive wickets, clean-bowling her opponent’s two highest scorers: Marizanne Kapp and Lauren Winfield-Hill.
‘Please, Miss, what’s ‘second slip’? The child looked up at her headmistress. It was her first day at school. Miss Newchurch replied: ‘It is a position you adopt on the cricket field for the first time in an entire tournament. You read the situation, make a decision by instinct and alter the field to your
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