The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 17th August
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The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 17th August
Here are all The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards for 17th August.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Men's 2023
Trent Rockets (Men) vs Manchester Originals (Men), 23rd Match
Manchester Originals edged out holders Trent Rockets by 10 runs to disappoint a record crowd at Trent Bridge, defending 181 for six after Phil Salt had smashed a stunning 86 off 32 balls.
A strong fightback from the home side’s bowlers gave their side a chance, restricting the Originals to just 69 from their last 56 balls after Salt’s 12 fours and five sixes had seen them 112 for one from 44 and on for a massive score.
Daniel Sams (2-28) and Lewis Gregory (2-30) were outstanding given that it was a flat pitch, with Luke Wood recovering from a 14-run mauling off his first set of five to be one for 31 from 20.
Yet Josh Tongue (3-32) and Paul Walter (2-24) were superb for the Originals, Walters defending 14 off the last set to leave most of the 15,500 spectators disappointed that Tom Kohler-Cadmore’s 64 off 42, Colin Munro’s 36 off 22 and Joe Root’s 35 off 23 were not enough to get the job done as Originals moved level with second-placed Southern Brave on points and left the Rockets in fifth spot.
Reasoning that Trent Bridge is a tough ground to defend a total, Rockets opted to bowl first but may have been having regrets as Salt hammered 30 runs in the first 10 balls on the way to a half-century in just 20 balls as the Originals, 58 for one in the powerplay, set off at a ferocious pace.
Jos Buttler, a spectator as Salt found the boundary seven times in that opening assault, lifted his first delivery over the rope at extra cover but missed out on many more as Ish Sodhi grabbed a fine low catch at midwicket.
Sam Cook put Salt down on 47, a straightforward catch at deep square leg off Sodhi’s bowling. But after feeling increasingly uncomfortable as the Lancashire player took him for back-to-back boundaries and a huge six over long-on, raising his boundary count to five sixes and 12 fours, it was Cook who had the last word, his next ball a slower one that bowled Salt behind his legs as he stepped across his stumps.
Now the Rockets took the pace off and Lewis Gregory accounted for Max Holden, caught at long off, and Ashton Turner, falling to a much more difficult catch by Cook on the legside rope in a 25-ball spell immediately after Salt’s demise to ball 45 that saw just 30 runs added.
The home attack were bowling much smarter now and Daniel Sams picked up a second scalp with a slow yorker that was too good for Laurie Evans and Luke Wood, having conceded 14 in five balls at the top of the innings, went for just 11 in two sets, coming back for his final set to concede just six more and scatter Jamie Overton’s stumps for good measure.
The Rockets would have been pleased with their work as they came off the field but 182 was still a demanding target to chase, one which looked bigger still as Hales succumbed to the first legitimate ball of their innings, a near unplayable ball from Josh Tongue that had him caught behind off the splice.
Root and Kohler-Cadmore soothed the blow with 65 off 40 balls, Root getting off the mark with a single before bringing the reverse-ramp into play for his first boundary, but ultimately perishing playing a similar stroke, caught behind by an alert Buttler off the left-arm seam of Paul Walter. Nonetheless, at 84 for two from 50, the home side had a good base.
Kohler-Cadmore and Munro built on it pretty well but with 28 needed from 14 the outcome was in the balance and that balance tipped towards the Originals as Tongue returned to dismiss both in his final set, Munro caught behind off a thin inside edge as the bowler cramped him for room before Kohler-Cadmore, looking to ease the pressure with time running out, holed out to point off a big top edge.
Zaman Khan went for nine runs off his final set to leave 14 needed by Rockets off the last five and Walter was up to task, conceding only three and picking up a second wicket as Sams holed out off the last ball.
Originals’ player of the match Phil Salt said:
“It is good to come here and play on what is a very, very good white ball wicket. A lot in the competition we’ve seen indifferent wickets but you know what to expect when you come here.
“It’s been a theme in this competition, a combination of the wickets and the balls doing more at the top of the innings, there are not many top order batters in the most runs column, so I’m aware that you can be playing well and miss out, so games like today where you cash in and take the game away from the opposition are all the more special.
“I was hitting the ball so well that it was disappointing to get out when I did. I was convinced Cooky was going to take the pace off when I went across the stumps. I didn’t bank on him to bowl full at the stumps, I’m not even sure he meant to do that, but it proved to be the right play at the time.
“To come here and beat these guys, who play such a good brand of cricket, is a good sign of where we are at as a side. Potentially we could have batted a little bit better through the middle after getting off to such a good start, but we got enough in the end.
“We could have bowled better at times than maybe we did, so to come here and win knowing that you could have done better, against the Rockets who are reigning champions, I think we are in a pretty good spot. They were a cameo away from winning that game.
“But having said that, the way Paul Walter bowled at the death was outstanding. He doesn’t do that for his county but he comes in and does a great job for us.
“We are not looking at the table too closely at this stage. One of our great strengths as a side is that we don’t get too high and we don’t get too low. And if you look at our record, our wins and losses column is almost identical to where it was at this stage last season, so it is just one game at a time.”
Rockets top-scorer Tom Kohler- Cadmore said:
“We were a couple of hits away and I’d been the mainstay of the innings, so I take it as my responsibility to go on and win the game at the end, so that’s a disappointment. They put us under pressure at the end, where if we had got a couple more boundaries in the last 20 balls it could have been a different story. They played it out nicely in the end.
“I’d like to think if I had been there at the end we would have won the game but with myself and Colin being out close together it puts a lot of pressure on the new guys coming in.
“But credit where it is due, Salty played an outstanding innings. It is not often you see someone hit the ball as cleanly as he did today.
“With the ball, I felt we definitely gave ourselves a chance of winning. With the start they had, after the first 25 balls you think they are getting 200, maybe 220, so to actually have a score that I thought was chaseable was a good effort.
“We had a time-out where we re-assessed, we made sure we stayed calm. It is a great pitch and the bowlers changed their plans to find as many dots as we could to put as much pressure on the batters as we could, and I felt we did that through the majority of their innings.
“It gave them a chance to assess how they should bowl and we scored a lot more runs square of the wicket than they did, because they pulled their lengths back.
“But it was a great game of cricket on an outstanding pitch in which ultimately we were just a couple of hits away from winning.
“We think, though, that nine points will get you into the top three this time, so we are looking at getting two wins in our last two games, get a bit of momentum and hopefully sneak into the knock-out positions.”
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Women's 2023
Trent Rockets (Women) vs Manchester Originals (Women), 23rd Match
After winning only one of their first five matches, Trent Rockets kept their hopes of a top-three finish in the Women’s Hundred just about alive with a thumping nine-wicket victory over Manchester Originals, chasing down a modest target of 108 with a massive 36 balls to spare.
Lizelle Lee combined power and placement, hitting 44 not out from 27 balls with six fours and two sixes, sharing an opening stand of 60 in 36 balls with Bryony Smith (28 off 19) before skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt showed her class with an unbeaten 33 off 18.
Deandra Dottin made 30 from 26 for the Originals, adding 40 for the third wicket with Laura Wolvaardt (23 from 31) before Amanda Jade-Wellington added 22 from 19 at the end of the innings but 107 for five always looked under par.
The Originals are not mathematically out of contention but, in truth, neither side is likely to be involved in the two games that will decide the tournament.
Originals made an unconvincing start after opting to bat first and never recovered, losing Emma Lamb and Fi Morris for 15 in the first 22 balls.
Lamb caught at short fine leg on the scoop as Katherine Sciver-Brunt, plainly still troubled by the hip injury that sidelined her for the last two games and coming in off a short run, claimed the first wicket of what is likely to be her last tournament. Morris hit Alexa Stonehouse straight to the fielder at mid-off.
With spinners Kirstie Gordon and Alana King stalling the Originals in their attempts to accelerate the visitors had much to do to post a defendable total at 47 for two from 50.
With pressure mounting, Wolvaardt - missed by ‘keeper Lizelle Lee off King on 16 - was stumped as Gordon darted one in flatter and the dangerous Dottin, put down on 28 by the normally reliable Jo Gardner, holed out to deep midwicket with only two added to her score.
Originals skipper Sophie Ecclestone, running on Wellington’s reverse sweep, was beaten by Gordon’s throw from point, leaving her side floundering at 72 for five from 77. Katie George joined Wellington in an enterprising finale that realised another 35 from 23 balls.
Yet the Rockets always fancied their chances chasing 108 to win, a target that quickly looked a formality as Smith and Lee piled on 49 in the powerplay, Smith hugely impressive with six boundaries, swept, pulled or hammered through cover, Lee chipping in with four. One sequence of 11 deliveries saw nine balls go to the rope, with no bowler spared.
A top edge off Ecclestone, whom she had hit for three boundaries in the England left-armer’s opening set, saw Smith caught at short fine leg but her departure simply ushered in Nat Sciver-Brunt to show off her skills with five boundaries and finish the job in rapid time.
Rockets’ Lizelle Lee, top scorer with 44 not out, said:
“Things haven’t quite gone our way in this tournament so it is really refreshing to get a win on the board in front of our home crowd.
“It is a good pitch and our bowlers did extremely well, the spinners especially, and made it easy for the batters.
“It’s great for me to get some runs. It has been a long time coming and that’s the frustrating thing for me because I know what I’m capable of. Not being able to do it when the team really needed it is very frustrating, so I’m really happy.
“I’ve watched the way Bryony Smith has been hitting the ball for us and I’m just standing at the other end thinking ‘why can’t I do that?’ She has been exceptional and batting with her and with Nat (Sciver-Brunt), who has been amazing for us.
“We have a chance, a very small chance, of qualifying if other games go our way but we will just concentrate on what we can do and finish the tournament well.”
Originals’ wicket-keeper Ellie Threlkeld said:
“It was a pretty disappointing performance from our team. It was a pretty good pitch and clearly we were a lot of runs short with the bat.
“We had a bit of a slow start in the powerplay and you only get 100 balls, so if you struggle at the beginning you are always going to be playing catch-up.
“It happens sometimes and when the pressure starts to tell, that’s when you lose wickets. Maybe there was an element of there being more pressure on us than on them but we will sit down and reflect and we have to say we didn’t bat well enough today.
“It was always going to be difficult to defend a low total in any circumstances, but when you are bowling against the likes of Lizelle Lee and Nat Sciver-Brunt it is never easy.
“Over the whole tournament we have played pretty well, but having two games rained off doesn’t help and we have had a few close games where we have just been on the wrong side of things.
“We should really be in a better situation than we are but we aren’t going to make any excuses and we will look at the games still to come and try to finish really strong.”
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