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The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 19th August
Here are all The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards for 19th August.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Men's 2023
Trent Rockets (Men) vs Birmingham Phoenix (Men), 25th Match
The Trent Rockets’ title defence remains in the balance but is in better shape than before after they thumped Birmingham Phoenix by 46 runs in the final Hundred Men’s match at Trent Bridge, watched by a record crowd of 15,551.
Off-spinner Matt Carter (two for 15) and Australia all-rounder Daniel Sams (three for 17) stood out with the ball as Phoenix, now eliminated, could muster only 116 for nine despite 38 off 22 balls from Jamie Smith in response to the Rockets’ 162 for six, to which Colin Munro (34 off 17), Sam Hain (30 off 21) and Alex Hales (27 off 14) were the key contributors.
The result puts the Rockets on seven points, level with Southern Brave and Manchester Originals behind leaders Oval Invincibles on nine ahead of Brave’s meet-up with the Invincibles later. The Brave and the Originals face off in Manchester next Wednesday after Rockets wrap up away to the Invincibles on Monday.
Asked to bat first, the Rockets would have been pleased to put 36 runs on the board from the opening 25 balls albeit for the loss of two big batting forces in Hales and Joe Root. Hales at least got a start after an indifferent tournament by his own standards, but after a positive if streaky 27 off 14 balls he dragged a Kane Richardson slower ball on to his stumps, after which Root perished to a steepling top-edge taken by the bowler as he tried to propel Adam Milne (two for 24 from 20) over midwicket.
Tom Kohler-Cadmore holed out to long-on as the Rockets reached the halfway point at 72 for three. Munro, looking for his second half-century of the competition, cleared the ropes off Tanveer Sangha, Moeen Ali and Benny Howell. But the Rockets suffered a double setback with Hain and then Munro gone in the space of nine balls, Hain caught on the deep point boundary as he went to uppercut Milne before Munro miscued Howell to widish cover.
Yet Sams, Lewis Gregory and Luke Wood maintained Rockets’ momentum as the last 30 balls added 53, Sams picking out Will Smeed at deep midwicket after a valuable 20 off 12 balls to finish their home programme with their second highest total at Trent Bridge this year.
Phoenix have been looking to Smeed to fire with the bat all through the tournament but they were frustrated again as Luke Wood’s second set saw him and opening partner Ben Duckett depart. Smeed was brilliantly run out by ‘keeper Kohler-Cadmore’s direct hit to the non-striker’s end before Duckett tried to ramp his former Nottinghamshire team-mate and found a current one lurking at short fine leg in Carter. Smith hit back with 20 off Wood’s third set, including two stand-and-deliver sixes over the leg side, as Phoenix came out of the powerplay with their noses in front at 41 for two.
By halfway, though, the home side had hauled back the advantage, albeit marginal as Liam Livingstone sliced leg-spinner Ish Sodhi to short third to leave Phoenix 66 for three, needing 97 more. They held a definite edge, though, when Smith fell to Carter in the next set, given out leg before on the field and upheld on review after the ball squeezed past his bat to hit him on the toe.
Phoenix should have been five down in the next set, but Sams, having got his hands on the ball at deep midwicket as Ali flicked into the leg side, could not hold it as he landed. No matter - Joe Root held on to a sensational effort as Ali went to pull Sams in the next set before the excellent Carter bowled Chris Benjamin for two for 15 from his 20 as the visitors stumbled to 90 for six, needing 73 from 26.
Benny Howell hit Sams to cover, Sam Cook bowled Milne and Sams took his third when, after a prolonged review, Kane Richardson was given out caught at midwicket.
Trent Rockets spinner Matt Carter, named match hero for his two wickets and an important catch, said:
“The thing that keeps us going here is the crowd. We play every game not just for ourselves as a team but also to put on a show for the crowd.
“We are used to getting big crowds here to watch Notts in the Blast but to get that couple of thousand extra in for this, and to see how many kids and young ones are enjoying it, especially on a Saturday afternoon when they could be doing something else, it’s great, it really is.
“There wasn’t a massively key performance for us with the bat. Everyone has chipped in with something in a way that the game needed and those runs at the end from Daniel Sams put us up to a decent total.
“The pitch was a bit slower than it was the other night but you still had to nail your skills to get what was there for you out of the pitch.
“For myself, I practise my skills hard in training ready for when I get the opportunity hopefully they come off and today it was all good. But all round it was a good performance from the bowlers, with three or four where the runs conceded were minimal. It was a proper bowling team unit.
“If we can win our game on Monday, and hopefully the size of the victory today will boost the run-rate up significantly, so all being well if we do finish up on the same points as another team that will give us the edge.
“We need to win on Monday and hope other results go our way but we are still in it.”
Phoenix skipper Moeen Ali said:
“All round, batting, bowling and fielding, I thought we were pretty average, to be honest.
“It has been one of those tournaments where we’ve just been unable to get going. The batters in particular have been massively out of form, apart from maybe Jamie Smith, who has shown he is a very good player, somebody for the future.
“It was always going to be difficult to chase down that score. We had them three down early, but then Munro came in and took us down a bit. That set us back, and we made mistakes in the field.
“We didn’t really bowl to our plans and the performance just shows where we have been as a team this year. We’ve been pretty poor, really.
“It wasn’t a bad pitch, so you could not blame that in any way.
“Over the tournament, we have just never got going. We had the first two games rained off and it felt like we were under pressure after that, the third game we lost and sometimes in those situations you try too hard.
“Chris Woakes has come in and done well and Jamie Smith as well, but those are really the only two positives.
“For the last game, you are always looking to finish with a win and we’ll maybe freshen things up a bit, bring in some of the younger players who are good and give them a chance.”
Southern Brave (Men) vs Oval Invincibles (Men), 26th Match
Tom Curran smashed 43 off just 28 balls and took three wickets as the Oval Invincibles beat the Southern Brave by eight runs and all but secured top spot and their place in The Hundred final.
Chris Jordan took three wickets, all clean bowled, in a devasting spell of bowling to leave the Invincibles 90 for seven before Curran rescued the innings in a vital 49-run partnership off just 22 balls with Nathan Sowter to propel the Invincibles to 139 for seven.
Curran took three wickets, and the Invincibles spinners dominated the middle sets to restrict the Brave to 131 for seven.
Tim David top scored with 44 and hit four of the last five balls of the match for six, but the Brave drop to fourth in the table, with a vital last-round clash against Manchester Originals next Wednesday.
Sam Billings elected to bat first and Jason Roy edged his first ball from George Garton for four, then had an early life after he ramped Craig Overton straight to Tymal Mills at short fine leg, but Mills lost sight of the ball at the crucial moment.
Will Jacks pulled an enormous six off Garton and sliced a wide full toss just over short third man for four, but was trapped lbw by Craig Overton.
Roy hit three boundaries with a pull, a flick and a scoop off Overton’s final set of the powerplay as the Invincibles reached 38 for one.
Thirteen deliveries without a boundary followed, and the pressure soon told as Roy was cleaned bowled advancing down the wicket to an 89mph Chris Jordan delivery, and Rehan Ahmed trapped Tawanda Muyeye plumb in front.
Heinrich Klaasen struck three boundaries in four balls, including a glorious shot over extra cover, before Jordan sent his middle stump flying out of the ground with a beauty.
Jordan clean bowled Sam Billings second-ball for his third dismissal in a devastating spell of bowling.
Tymal Mills plucked an incredible one-handed return catch out of the air to remove Sam Curran, and when Ross Whiteley was run out Invincibles had slumped to 90 for seven.
Tom Curran rescued the innings with 43 off 28 in a partnership of 49 off just 22 balls with Sowter.
Tom Curran struck three consecutive boundaries from Mills, hoisted Jordan for an enormous six over mid-wicket in the penultimate set, and tonked Mills over long-on for a six in a final set that went for 17 runs to propel the Invincibles to 139 for seven.
In response Finn Allen struck Spencer Johnson over mid-on, before ramping him past short fine leg. Devon Conway flicked Johnson for a boundary, before hoisting Sowter for six to long-on, and clubbing a four to mid-wicket.
Tom Curran broke the opening stand with a disguised slower ball that Conway nicked behind.
Spin duo Adam Zampa and Sowter dominated after the powerplay, bowling four sets in tandem as the Brave failed muster a boundary for 26 deliveries.
Allen launched Tom Curran for a four and a six through square leg, but skied his next delivery and Roy charged in from long on to take a tough catch on the second juggle.
Soon after Jacks bowled Leus du Plooy with a jaffa and Zampa dismissed Vince who holed out to long-on.
Colin Ackermann clubbed a Sam Curran slower ball straight to deep mid-wicket, before Garton top edged Tom Curran to Billings.
David produced some late fireworks with five enormous sixes to cheer up the crowd, but the Brave fell to an eight-run defeat.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Women's 2023
Trent Rockets (Women) vs Birmingham Phoenix (Women), 25th Match
Trent Rockets kept their hope of qualifying for the knock-out stages of The Women’s Hundred alive with a decisive win against Phoenix by 3 runs at Trent Bridge, defending 134 for six after Bryony Smith smashed a 64 of 34 balls.
A strong performance from the home side's bowlers gave their side a chance, restricting the Phoenix to just 131 runs for four wickets winning by a narrow margin of three runs after Amy Jones had hit 46 off 30 balls
In a must-win game, the Rockets tried to play more positive cricket in the powerplay, scoring 44 runs in 25 balls and losing just one wicket. Smith, the opener, did most of the hitting, picking up five fours and a six while scoring 34 runs off 16 balls and losing the wicket of Lizelle Lee to Sophie Devine for 3 runs of 8 balls.
Nat Sciver-Brunt, the captain of the home side, managed to maneuver her innings with 18 runs off 10 balls with other rockets middle order players but soon a short collapse resulted in a loss of momentum for the game in the middle.
Smith, who has also scored a noteworthy half-century off 28 balls by reaching the fastest fifty for the rockets. With 64 runs in 40 balls, 10 fours, and a six, opener Smith was arguably the backbone of the batting performance. However, before she was bowled by Katie Levick (2 for 30), she had scored all the runs and looked as if rockets would get 150 runs on the board but perhaps that was not the case.
Even though the rockets played outstanding cricket, their innings-long run rate per ball was only 1.34, which allowed them to set a goal of 135 for the Phoenix in just 100 balls.
Phoenix's two best bowlers in the first half of the innings were Emily Arlott (3 for 15) and Sophie Devine (1 for 19), who only allowed 14 and 5 runs in their first two five-wicket sets while picking up three wickets between them. Phoenix's fielding throughout the innings was ordinary with a few dropped chances, but the bowlers were able to halt the score by taking wickets at crucial times at regular intervals in the final 30 balls.
In the 135 chase, Phoenix's openers , Eve Jones (20 off 20 balls) and Sophie Devine (29 off 24 balls), put up a 47-run partnership for the first wicket. However only two of the powerplay's 21 runs were scored by the visiting team putting the team into the pressure.
In the powerplay, Alexa Stonehouse (20 off 20 balls ) made a strong showing with just two runs over two sets. She not only succeeded in applying pressure, but she also secured a breakthrough for the Rockets by running out the Phoenix team's captain, Eve Jones, with an outstanding direct hit.
Phoenix batters appeared to be under more pressure at the midway point, needing 59 runs to win from 30 balls.
England’s Amy Jones set the tone with 46 off 30 balls for Phoenix, but her efforts were in vain as phoenix lost their two key wickets of Erin Burns(16 off 17 balls) and Emily Arlott( 9 off 3 balls ) in a short span of time.
Rockets kept their hopes of winning the match alive with a wicket each from Kirstie Gordon and Alana King with 11 to go in the final set when the pendulum was still swinging either way.
Southern Brave (Women) vs Oval Invincibles (Women), 26th match
Georgia Adams slammed her highest Hundred score as Southern Brave better Oval Invincibles by seven wickets – ending the two-time champions’ reign.
All-rounder Adams took control of a faltering chase with an unbeaten 50 off 32 balls while Freya Kemp – unable to bowl this season due to a stress fracture in her back – battered 41 not out off 21.
Suzie Bates had scored 55 as Invincibles posted a creditable 130 but Adams and Kemp added 73 in 38 balls in front of another record crowd for a women’s match at the Ageas Bowl of 10,832.
Brave had already booked their place in the knockouts but still have an automatic final spot in their grasp, while their nemesis in the first two finals can no longer progress.
After losing the toss and being asked to bowl first, Anya Shrubsole was shown a farewell video on the big screen ahead of her last Ageas Bowl appearance before retiring.
She responded to the ovation by picking up Lauren Winfield-Hill’s wicket with her fifth ball, thanks to a stunning catch at mid-on by Maia Bouchier. The wicket slumped the Invincibles to six for two after Alice Capsey had already cross-batted Lauren Bell to midwicket.
But the early trouble was abated by Bates’ anchoring during stands of 53 and 63 with Marizanne Kapp and Paige Scholfield.
The New Zealand veteran’s innings was guided through her control and ability to pick out the right balls to score off, without getting bogged down. To typify that approach, her fifty came off 40 balls.
Kapp played a similar role to get the visitors out of trouble but fell for 27 when picking out Chloe Tryon on the deep square boundary.
At 59 off the first 55 balls the tempo needed to flick towards allegro and former Brave all-rounder Scholfield reset the metronome with 30 off 17 balls – which included getting dropped on three and plundering a six next ball.
Brave, often great at the death, once again flourished in the last end as the tournament’s leading wicket-taker Georgia Adams saw off Scholfield with her 15th wicket and Bates was run out for 55. Nadine de Klerk slog swept the penultimate ball to deep square with three wicket falling for 11 runs in the last 10 balls.
A slow start and the loss of both openers within the first 26 balls put Brave’s chase on the back foot.
Smriti Mandhana top edged a swing across the line off Kapp and Danni Wyatt was bowled by Nadine de Klerk – the Charlotte Edwards Cup’s top wicket-taker on her first appearance since replacing Dane van Niekerk.
Bouchier and Adams put on 38 but the run-rate was rising after 17 balls without a boundary – caused by Kapp’s one for 18 – and the pressure saw Bouchier slap to cover.
Brave desperately needed a Scholfield-esque innings, Kemp provided it, with Adams upping her strike-rate.
The game swung on Mady Villiers being smashed for two sixes in three balls as the duo stepped things up with 42 off the last 16 balls to end the game – Kemp hoisting a maximum to do it in style with four balls to spare.
Southern Brave batter Freya Kemp:
“I think we bowled well but didn’t field as well as we would have wanted to but it was nice to see batters other than Smriti and Danni could stand up for the team and get us home.
“In those situations it is about being calm and being clear about your plans and where you want to hit the ball. Today hitting straight was the best option and that is how we scored our runs.
“It has been difficult [being in the team as a batter] it isn’t something I’m used to but it has been a good opportunity to work on my batting and it has been working.
“I am looking forward to getting the ball back in my hand though. It is going really well. I’m building up my overs and everything is going to plan. There isn’t an estimated date of return yet.
“I am batting higher up so there is more pressure on me to come in and score runs. Lottie [Charlotte Edwards] and everyone around me has been really helpful and told me not to put too much pressure on myself and not be too stressed.
“Subconsciously it was nice to know [England call-up] means they are backing me.
“Gads was really calm. We talked about being smart and hitting to our plans. We are both laid back out there and helped each other. We talked about who was taking on each bowler and then match-ups. She really helped me out there.”
Oval Invincibles captain Suzie Bates:
“The Oval Invincibles have been in all the finals and that was our goal this year but we haven’t been able to clap with the bat and the ball on the same day.
“The batting has let us down but today it was with the ball. That partnership [Adams and Kemp] was massive and we could quite hold our nerve.
“It is disappointing because we have a squad that can compete with any team but we haven’t hit our straps.
“We were happy with that score as the wicket was a little slow and the boundaries were big. I thought we were in the game and for about 85 balls we were on top.
“I felt much better than I had been feeling. It was nice to find the boundary. I like playing on this ground. It has been nice to be back here; I’ve seen a lot of people I haven’t seen for years so it has felt like a bit of a homecoming.”
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