Southern Brave vs London Spirit at the Utilita Bowl, Southampton on 24 July 2024 Spirit won an exciting match, beating the defending champions playing before their home crowd of 9,000. Earlier, commentators were especially critical of Spirit’s performance after witnessing two dropping catches and they remained unimpressed by their bowling attack apart from Tara Norris
London Spirit vs Southern Brave at London (North), at Lord’s (St John’s Wood) on 8 Aug (16h00) 13,000 spectators suffered an hour’s delay before the match started, shortened by 30 balls; 15 balls docked from each innings. Taking 4 ‘Spirit’ wickets, Georgia Adams went top of the bowler’s leader-board, with 10 wickets-to-date. Maia Bouchier (pictured) was awarded POTM Meerkat
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
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