The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 20th August
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The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 20th August
Here are all The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards for 20th August.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Men's 2023
Welsh Fire vs London Spirit (Men)
Welsh Fire’s seamers set them on the path to a victory which keeps their top three hopes alive, with Johnny Bairstow top scoring as they chased down 110.
Captain Tom Abell and Glenn Phillips finished the match with a partnership of 41 off 24 balls, after the platform had been set by the seam bowlers who took 8-65 between them.
New Zealand pair Matt Henry and Lockie Ferguson impressed in their first game while David Willey and David Payne also took advantage of a seam friendly wicket, all taking two wickets each.
London Spirit had Ravi Bopara to thank for getting them to three figures after an early batting collapse, while Dan Worrall took three early wickets to give them hope in the field.
The result sees the two teams swap places in the table between fifth and sixth, while Welsh Fire are level on points with third place, but behind on net run rate.
Welsh Fire had lost Pakistan pair Shaheen Shah Afridi and Harris Rauf as they returned to international duty, but Matt Henry and Lockie Ferguson flew in from New Zealand as quality replacements.
The new look bowling attack was soon unleashed after London spirit captain Dan Lawrence won the toss and elected to bat.
The tone was set by David Willey who did not concede a run in his opening five balls to Zak Crawley. He did not have to wait long to add a wicket, returning for the third set and dismissing Crawley, caught behind by Joe Clarke via bat and pad.
Henry was proving equally effective as his bounce saw the end of Lawrence second ball, caught in the covers by Tom Abell, soon followed by Australian Matthew Wade caught behind trying to scoop Willey.
In form Adam Rossington had been watching the carnage from the other end, but he fell trying to hit Henry out of the ground, a top edge well taken by Abel running back.
Willey and Henry bowled all the first 30 balls between them and the Spirit score at that stage was just 21 for 4.
Daryl Mitchell and Ravi Bopara started rebuilding, but could only amass 42 at the half way stage. Then Mitchell went to David Payne, Willey taking the boundary catch from a short ball.
Matt Critchley’s breezy 21 came to an end when he skied an attempted pull from Ferguson, Glenn Phillips taking the catch.
The run rate was always slow, it was only the 92nd ball that the runs equalled the balls bowled for the first time.
Ravi Bopara played responsibly, finishing 24 not out off 20, while Liam Dawson’s 24 was a useful contribution as well as Spirit crept up to 109 for 9.
The bowling figures were impressive, Willey, Henry, Ferguson and Payne all getting two wickets each, with Henry, Willey and Payne all conceding less than a run a ball.
Any possible complacency in the Welsh Fire line-up would soon have been dispelled by Spirit opening bowler Dan Worrall, whose away swing with the new ball proved hard to play.
Steve Eskinazi went on the attack and skied the ball, while Joe Clarke and Luke Wells both were caught behind misjudging the swing.
Worrall bowled 20 of the first 25 balls, Bairstow hitting a couple of fours to leave the Australian’s final figures as 3-24.
Bairstow and Tom Abell put on fifty before Barstow was bowled for 41 going for a big swipe off Liam Dawson.
Abell survived to see it through, given good support by Glenn Phillips, the pair taking 15 from a Daryl Mitchell set of five balls to settle nerves in the final section of the innings. Phillips finished it with a straight six off Nathan Ellis. Abell finished on 37 and Phillips on 21.
Welsh Fire bowler David Willey was pleased with an all round performance as they kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the finals with victory over London Spirit -
“The story of our competition is that everyone has contributed in different ways throughout which is why we are sat where are going into the last game with something to play for,” he said.
“the aim was to get out there and do the basics as well for as long as possible, we just got our rewards.
“Very often we play on flat pitches and it is travelling all over the place, there was a little bit there and it was important we used it as our home advantage and understood how to play on it with bat and ball.
“We have been very fortunate to have four bowlers in Afridi, Rauf, Henry and Ferguson that are of the absolute highest quality. As we saw tonight, they turn up, plug in and deliver, which is why they are the best in the world.
“First and foremost we need to win the last game in Headingley, if we find ourselves in a position to impact that run rate then we do that, but first thing is to win the game.
“There was a decent turnout today, two great games of cricket, the women have been fantastic throughout, so hopefully we can both build on that to next year and start filling this ground.”
London Spirit bowler Dan Worrell felt his side were below a par score with the bat. “It was a disappointing night, it was a tough pitch, the batsmen came off early and said 120 or 130 would be a competitive score -
“We got close but it just was not to be. I was looking on at the way they bowled and tried to emulate that, there was a bit in the air and off the pitch with variable bounce as well.
“It is a disappointing feeling for everyone involved to be out of the competition, it is such a great tournament and everyone loves the opportunity to get out there and perform in front of a crowd.
“It is a disappointing night, we tried out best and that is the way sport goes sometimes.”
Manchester Originals vs Northern Superchargers (Men)
Calvin Harrison took five wickets for 11 runs as the Manchester Originals bolstered their attempt to reach the knockout stages of the Men’s Hundred with a 81-run annihilation of the Northern Superchargers at Emirates Old Trafford.
Needing 165 to exact some revenge for last week’s defeat at Headingley, the Superchargers’ batsmen had a dreadful day and were dismissed for 83, a performance in sharp contrast to that of the Originals, for whom Jos Buttler made a 47-ball 75 in their 164 for six.
If London Spirit beat Welsh Fire this evening, the Leeds-based side are eliminated from this year’s competition but their chances are gossamer-thin in any case.
After a relatively sedate start – only 29 runs coming from the first 20 balls – Buttler took 14 off Brydon Carse’s first set of five and the opening pair had taken their stand to 72 off 41 balls before Salt, who had been dropped by Wayne Parnell on 18, was caught at long-off by David Wiese off Adil Rashid for 28.
Five balls later Wiese took a second catch when Laurie Evans slapped Callum Parkinson down the ground and departed for just seven but that was the signal for Buttler and Paul Walter to launch a selective onslaught on the Superchargers bowling.
Both batters hit sixes off Matt Short’s second set and the Originals were well placed for further mayhem on 128 for two after 75 balls. That was initially prevented when Walter was stumped by Tom Banton off Rashid for 28, thus ending his 48-run stand for the third wicket with Buttler.
The Originals’ skipper reached his fifty off 35 balls but having made 75 with six fours and three sixes, Buttler was eventually caught at deep midwicket by Harry Brook off Rashid, who almost immediately collected his fourth wicket when Jamie Overton was caught by Carse at long-off for two.
The home side’s hundred balls ended with what seemed an eminently defendable total on the board given the turning pitch. Rashid finished with four for 18 from his 20 balls.
The Superchargers’ pursuit began poorly when Adam Lyth, having made just one, drove Overton’s seventh ball of the innings straight to Paul Walter at mid-off.
Tom Hartley then struck with his second ball when Tom Banton reverse-swept him to point, where Calvin Harrison took a superb two-handed catch above his head. Adam Hose was then caught down the leg side by Buttler off Josh Tongue for a six-ball 15 and the visitors’ problems deepened when Matt Short was stumped off Calvin Harrison for 11.
Harry Brook was joined by his skipper Parnell with the score on 37 for four but things got worse when the Superchargers’ last specialist batsman, Harry Brook was bowled for two by a superb ball from Hartley which pitched on middle and leg and hit middle and off.
Parnell was caught at backward point by Zaman off Harrison for 11 and the same bowler accounted for Wiese, Carse and Parkinson in the space of nine balls to finish with five for 11 from his 20 balls.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Women's 2023
Manchester Originals vs Northern Superchargers (Women)
Manchester Originals turned the Women’s Hundred league table on its head to inflict a three-wicket defeat on the high-flying Northern Superchargers at Emirates Old Trafford
Replying to the visitors 107 for eight, the Originals, who have no chance of qualifying for the knockout stages of the competition, knocked off the runs with just one ball to spare, largely thanks to a stand of 65 off 51 balls between Kathryn Bryce, who made 32, and Amanda-Jane Wellington, who made 33 not out
The opening ten balls of the game could hardly have gone much better for the Originals, whose opening bowler, Mahika Gaur, had Marie Kelly caught at deep midwicket by Katie George for two and then bowled the in-form Phoebe Litchfield for a single.
Jemimah Rodrigues and Armitage repaired some of the damage to the Superchargers innings with a stand of 36 in 20 balls before Rodrigues was leg before wicket for 17 when trying to sweep Wellington.
However, the momentum of the visitors’ innings was maintained by Armitage and Alice Davidson-Richards who put on 48 and had taken the score to 93 for three after 83 balls before the Originals took five wickets in 16 balls to restrict the Superchargers to what seemed a modest total.
Davidson-Richards was caught by George off Kathryn Bryce for 27 but the pick of the wickets to fall was that of Georgia Wareham, who was brilliantly caught and bowled by a diving Fi Morris. Armitage did what she could do maintain the run rate before she was stumped by Ellie Threlkeld off Kathryn Bryce for 46 off 43 balls.
Bryce, Gaur and Wellington finished with two wickets apiece in what was a superb effort from the Originals’ bowlers in the enforced absence of their skipper, Sophie Ecclestone, who injured her calf during her first set of five.
The Originals suffered the early loss of Emma Lamb, who was caught behind off her England team-mate Kate Cross for four, and Fi Morris was caught at mid-off by Davidson-Richards off Linsey Smith for 12.
Moderately placed on 30 for two after the 25 Powerplay balls, the home side almost immediately lost Laura Wolvaardt, bowled by Wareham for eight, and the leg spinner struck twice more in her next set when she bowled Ellie Threlkeld for 10 and had Deandra Dottin leg before wicket for three.
That left the Originals on 40 for five after 45 balls but Bryce and Wellington batted sensibly to take the score to 74 for five with 25 balls left in the innings.
The sixth-wicket pair too k their side to with three runs of victory before Bryce was leg before to Lucy Higham for 32 and Sophie Ecclestone, who was batting with a runner, was run out for a single. But George struck her first ball through the covers to seal the win.
Superchargers leg-spinner, Georgia Wareham, said:
We got quite close towards the end there but we didn’t put our best game of cricket together. But the promising thing is that we put up a really good fight to get close in the end.
We haven’t played our best in any game this season. We’ve produced bits and pieces without putting it all together. It was annoying we didn’t win today but we’ll look forward to the game against Welsh Fire at Leeds on Tuesday.
It was spin-friendly today and our seamers found it tricky. I thought our other spinners did an exceptional job. Linsey Smith did an exceptional job and Lucy Higham was under really high pressure in that last over.
Kathryn Bryce, Manchester Originals all-rounder, said:
It was a bit of a stressful end (to the game) butn’t think it’s ever calm when you have a runner out there. No one ever practises it.
We had a tough start with a couple of rained off games and a couple of close losses. We knew we were really close and building to something, and we wanted to put in a couple of good performances to finish the competition.
With Soph (Ecclestone) going down injured early we knew we had to stand up and take a bit of responsibility. She’s such a big player to go down, so to take that responsibility – it was a great day.
The ball was holding up a bit in the pitch, and it was getting a bit of turn, so those changeups were really important. We knew we needed to build a partnership and take the game as deep as possible.
We knew there would be a couple of sets in there that we could get a couple of big scores from, and also face as few dot balls as possible, to get us close at the end.
Welsh Fire vs London Spirit (Women)
England star Sophia Dunkley led the way with 68 and 2 for 15 against London Spirit, as Welsh Fire qualified for the Hundred finals weekend for the first time.
The team which did not win a single match last year, and only two the year before, is now guaranteed at least a place in the Kia Oval eliminator, while they have one game left to try and top the rankings and go straight through the Lord’s Final.
It was also a record attendance for a Women’s Hundred game in Cardiff of 7069, who enjoyed watching the home side reach 161, a total no team has topped in this year’s competition apart from Welsh Fire themselves.
London Spirit came into the game knowing their own qualification hopes had gone, but a partnership of 68 between Heather Knight and Richa Ghosh, who both scored 34, gave them a flicker of hope before the final wickets tumbled under pressure. They finished 138 for 7.
Welsh Fire head to Northern Superchargers next for a straight shootout for the chance to finish top, if Southern Brave do not win their last game at Manchester Originals.
Beaumont was coming into the game on the back of her record-shattering 118 last time out, and seemed to pick up exactly where she left off taking 20 from the first 10 balls bowled by Danielle Gibson and Sarah Glenn, after Spirit opted to bowl first.
Sophia Dunkley joined in the assault as the 25 ball powerplay yielded 53 runs for the home side.
The first wicket came as a bit of a surprise as Spirit captain Heather Knight turned to her seventh bowler after 50 balls and Sophie Munro opened with a loopy, in-swinging slower ball which clean bowled Beaumont.
Better was to follow next ball when Laura Harris went for a drive and edged behind to Richa Ghosh. She reviewed the decision, but ultra edge showed a faint touch and she had to go first ball leaving Munro on a hat-trick.
Hayley Matthews hit that delivery through backward point for four, the West Indian back in the side after recovering from a shoulder injury.
Dunkley and Matthew brought up the 100 in 64 balls. Dunkley also hit the personal landmark of a half century off 35 balls, finally dismissed for 68 off 48.
Matthews hit a useful 36 in the closing stages. Bryce hit her first ball for six, tipped over the deep midwicket boundary by Danielle Gibson, the first six with just three balls of the innings remaining.
Gibson wasted no time in clearing the boundary, hitting two sixes in her opening flurry before being trapped LBW to Shabnim Ismail for 18 off seven balls. Amelia Kerr soon followed, a sharp catch at extra cover by Beaumont off the bowling of Claire Nicholas.
Grace Harris was LBW to Ismail before Ghosh and Knight put on 68 in 52 balls. Ghosh was caught by Matthews trying to reverse sweep Dunkley. The crucial wicket of Knight fell soon after, an inside edge onto the pad and then the stumps off Dunkley.
Sophia Dunkley hailed the vibe among this season’s Welsh Fire Women which has taken them from bottom of the table to challenging for top place with one game to go.
“There is a great vibe round the group, we are so pleased we have qualified for Finals Day, a really big comeback after the last two years so it is really special,” she said.
“A lap of the ground at the end was nice to show the fans we appreciate their support, a record crowd shows the interest is building.
“It has been going well with Tammy at the top of the order, we have both tried to be as positive as we can to get ahead of the game early on. The last two or three games that has worked really well and hopefully we can do more of that.
“We were pretty confident, we thought it was a good score and we had bowlers to defend it and when you bowl in a good area it was quite hard to score, but it was a good game of cricket.
“It was great to get a couple of wickets and contribute to the game. One game to go, we will give it everything to get as many points as we can, up in Headingley which will be hostile atmosphere for the away team.”
London Spirit captain Heather Knight was left ruing letting Fire build such a commanding total.
“We let them get a few too many, we were not great in the field and in the powerplay we gave them a bit too much width.
“It was the sort of wicket that if you bowled good lengths and mixed your pace up then it could be hard to score. We pulled it back with our spinners in the middle who have been outstanding, then a couple of dropped chances.
“Tammy and Sophia have had a brilliant season, haven’t they, they make it really hard to bowl at them because you know if you miss then you will go for a boundary.”
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