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The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 16th August
Here are all The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards for 16th August.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Men's 2023
Southern Brave (Men) vs Birmingham Phoenix (Men), 22nd Match
By Matthew Luddington, Hundred Rising Reporter
Rehan Ahmed celebrated his England T20 call-up with a spellbinding three for 22 as the Southern Brave cruised to a four-wicket victory over the Birmingham Phoenix.
Teenage leg-spinner Ahmed, who is the youngest male cricketer to play all three formats for England, bamboozled the Phoenix through the middle sets, while the lightening quick Tymal Mills starred at the death with three for 20 to restrict the visitors to an under-par 119 for eight.
George Garton top scored with 28 as Southern Brave got ahead of the rate early and reached their target with six balls to spare.
Brave climb to second in the table to boost their chances of reaching the playoffs whilst the Phoenix remain bottom with progression looking unlikely.
Ashes hero Moeen Ali elected to bat first and Will Smeed started fast, striking three boundaries off Garton and Craig Overton’s opening end. England star Ben Duckett soon joined the fun striking boundaries with a cut, flick and a ramp.
Smeed crashed two glorious drives through the off side for four, and had a life when he was put down by Tim David in the deep, but his luck ran out when he was beaten by the extra pace of Mills and top edged a pull to Leus du Plooy to leave the Phoenix 40 for one after the powerplay.
Brave captain James Vince turned to spin and was vindicated as Ahmed trapped Jamie Smith lbw before bowling Duckett around his legs with a disguised googly.
Off-spinner Colin Ackermann picked up the prize scalp of Ali with a jaffa as both spinners dominated, bowling back-to-back 10-ball sets.
Ahmed picked up his third wicket after Dan Mousley overbalanced to a leg-side delivery and was smartly stumped by Devon Conway.
Livingstone was dropped in the deep and threatened to make the Brave pay when he dispatched Ahmed and Mills for sixes, however he edged behind off Mills.
In the final end Benny Howell fell to a Jordan slower ball and Chris Woakes holed out to long-off as Mills picked up his third wicket and the Phoenix could only muster 119for eight.
Finn Allen set about making light work of the target, striking Woakes over extra-cover, before launching fellow New Zealander Adam Milne for a six over long-on, and hitting Woakes for consecutive boundaries over his head.
Allen fell soon after when he could only glove an attempted ramp off Kane Richardson to Smith.
Vince worked a Richardson in-swinger behind square for four off his first delivery, before assertively pulling Woakes to the boundary. However, the Brave’s captain was bowled after advancing down the pitch to an Ali delivery that spun between bat and pad.
Devon Conway was run out after a mix up, however a quickfire partnership of 44 between Garton and Du Plooy put the Brave firmly in control.
Garton fell after looping a catch to point, David holed out to cow corner and Du Plooy was trapped lbw as the Brave stumbled over the line for a vital victory.
Birmingham Phoenix bowler Chris Woakes:
“I don’t think the wicket was great to bat on, it was a used wicket, it did hold up and it did spin and there are big boundaries here at the Ageas and we found it hard to score.”
“When you bat first on a wicket like that you are always wary of letting a new guy come in as it’s difficult to start, it’s a tricky one you can always say we could’ve gone harder but we may have got less than 100.”
“We may have got it wrong at the toss, it may have been a bit better to bat on second time around under the lights. Generally, we’re better at defending as a team, under the lights it might swing around more which would suit our bowling attack. We felt the pitch would get worse which wasn’t the case”
“We felt at the halfway stage we had at best an average score, but if we got early wickets starting on the pitch would be difficult for their batsmen. We didn’t get early wickets and that probably would’ve been the difference in the end but ultimately, we were probably 20 runs short.”
“Once you get a score down to a run a ball, as a bowling attack you’re under pressure because if the batting side get a boundary at that point the game is almost done. We did well to take it down to five balls remaining, it was good to show that fight to take it close and you never know what net run rate could do in this competition.”
"We have to win both our remaining two games, we have the confidence in the group to try and win them, we have a good squad but this competition is full of good players and good teams so you have to turn up on the day and fair play to the Southern Brave on the day they were probably just a bit better than us.”
Southern Brave bowler Rehan Ahmed:
“Playing in front of the home crowd felt very good, there’s a great energy around here.”
“With Duckett you always expect him to sweep you because he’s one of the best in the world at that, it’s just trying to second guess him and hope he misses it. He’s a world-class player so to get him out is a good feeling.”
“I tried to bowl it into Dan Mousley’s thigh pad to not give him room but Dev did very well to get that stumping, but when it’s your day it all comes off. That could’ve easily been a wide or go for four runs off the bat so it was just one of those days I guess.”
“I enjoyed bowling with Col a lot, we both play for Leicester and we always bowl in partnerships. Col bowled very well today, he wasn’t as lucky as me but he bowled very well and got Moeen out at a crucial stage.”
“I like it when the batsman is trying to take me on because I always feel in the game.”
“It was a slow pitch so it was always going to be a low-scoring game, so restricting the Phoenix to 119 was a good score for us.”
“We want to be in the playoffs, that’s the goal, but we want to take things one game at a time. As long as we keep doing what we’re doing I’m sure we will.’
“I have 100% confidence in the squad that we can go all the way this year.”
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Women's 2023
Southern Brave (Women) vs Birmingham Phoenix (Women), 22nd Match
Smriti Mandhana overtook Tammy Beaumont to return to the top of the Women’s Hundred scoring charts as Southern Brave beat winless Birmingham Phoenix by three runs in a thriller.
Indian opener Mandhana has 224 runs in the 2023 edition of the Hundred after a stylish 39, which all made her the first women past 600 runs in the tournament’s history.
The 84 runs she put on with opening partner Danni Wyatt set Brave on their way to fifth victory from six fixtures to send them back top of the table.
Lauren Bell, Georgia Adams and Anya Shrubsole both took two wickets to make sure Brave defended 132 as already eliminated Phoenix reached 129 in front of a record 9,829 for a women’s Hundred game at the Ageas Bowl.
Brave won the toss and eased through the gears with Mandhana and Danni Wyatt cruising to 36 in a no thrills powerplay.
The overseas dominated her hitting through the leg side – with 25 of her runs coming hitting across the line, with a clear plan to rotate the strike with singles into the midwicket expanse.
Wyatt struck all but one of her six boundaries behind the wicket before she was bowled by an impeccable leg cutter for 43.
The 84 the opening duo put on was the Brave’s fourth highest stand ever and the eighth time the pair had scored over 50 together.
Mandhana fell 11 balls later to the 70th ball when she was given leg before to Arlott – who ended with two for 22. Replays showed it should have been reviewed as it pitched outside leg stump.
Phoenix played three leg spinners on a pitch which turned but all three were milked, with only Katie Levick getting on the wicket list when she had Georgia Adams stumped.
Maia Bouchier swept onto her own stumps by Erin Burns’ off spin – the Australian the only bowler to go at under a run a ball as Brave posted a slightly above par 132.
Sophie Devine swatted the third ball of the innings to midwicket but Sterre Kalis and Eve Jones built a platform with a 40-run stand.
They both fell within nine balls of each other as the spin duo of Kalea Moore and Adams both pulled Brave back on top – Kalis lbw to Adams and Jones caught at midwicket.
Another stand, this time of 43 between Burns and Amy Jones edged the visitors towards favourites.
But Jones was run out by Bouchier’s strong arm after some slow running to leave Phoenix needing 36 off 24 balls.
Burns hit Adams for the first six of the day and then a four, but was caught at long on.
Defending 15 off the last end, Lauren Bell built pressure with a pair of slower ball dots before finding Abbey Freeborn mishitting to mid off.
And Anya Shrubsole had Tess Flintoff caught and bowled, Hannah Baker stumped and defended five off the final ball as Brave boosted their hopes of a third trip to Lord’s.
Southern Brave bowler Lauren Bell:
“It was our closest win so far. It was very nervy but we are buzzing to get over the line.
“Weirdly I really enjoy those situations [bowling at the death], and I really enjoy the pressure. I had the crowd behind me and Anya behind me and luckily it came off today.
“I have been on the other side of those defendings so it was nice for it to come off.
“I don’t tend to think about [when I’ve been on the other side, like in the recent ODI against Australia]. I parked it and left it far in the past. You learn from those situations and all experiences when you are under pressure like that you can come out on top.
“Smriti and Danni are in such good form in this tournament. Every time they go out there we realise how lucky we are to have them and they keep producing.
“We’ve got two big games left and the goal is definitely to get straight through to the final. Hopefully if we win both we will go straight through.”
Birmingham Phoenix captain Eve Jones:
“It has been a regular occurrence for us that we get into great positions in this tournament and then don’t get over the line. We are hugely disappointed with that and this feels like another game we should have won.
“All tournament the three spinners have been brilliant. Levick, Baker, Burns have all gone brilliant and clawed things back and kept the runs down. They did a superb job again in the middle and the end.
“We felt like it was a total we could chase down.
“We have spoken about building partnerships and we’ve got ourselves into a strong position today. It is tight margins and it feels like when luck isn’t on your side it really isn’t on your side.
“We will probably look at the dot ball count for the middle and then end. We got carried away in trying to finish the game too early.”
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