The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 22nd August
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The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 22nd August
Here are all The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards for 22nd August.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Men's 2023
Northern Superchargers vs Welsh Fire (Men)
Harry Brook smashed the fastest Hundred century but it proved in vain as Welsh Fire kept alive their hopes of making Saturday’s eliminator with an eight-wicket win over Northern Superchargers at Headingley.
Brook crashed a scintillating 105 but found little support as the Superchargers posted 158 for seven.
Stephen Eskinazi’s fifty set Fire on their way, before Jonny Bairstow hit 44 and Joe Clarke 42 to lift the visitors to victory.
Fire will reach the eliminator if Manchester Originals beat Southern Brave on Wednesday.
Brook played a remarkable lone hand to lead a Superchargers recovery.
Matthew Short, Tom Banton and Adam Lyth all departed inside the first 20 balls to leave the Superchargers reeling at 10 for three, having won the toss.
Brook began patiently alongside Adam Hose, but exploded into life after Hose fell to Matt Henry after 33 balls.
He produced an audacious ramp over third for six from a searing Lockie Ferguson bouncer and hit Roelef van der Merwe down the ground for another thumping maximum.
Brook was running out of partners as Adil Rashid fell to the left-arm spinner and David Wiese was run out by Tom Abell to leave the total at 92 for seven.
But Brook marched on undeterred, reaching 50 from 24 balls, and hit the accelerator by smashing 19 from Luke Wells’ five-ball set.
The right-hander combined outrageous power with pure timing, hammering Ferguson down the ground for a six which landed on the Sky Sports commentary pod.
With 10 balls of the innings remaining Brook was on 76 but he surged to his century with two more sixes and four fours as 30 came from those final 10 deliveries.
Of Superchargers’ 158, Brook finished on 105 from 42 balls, becoming the third man to hit a Hundred century.
Momentum was with the hosts but Eskinazi soon set about changing that.
The right-hander hit two sixes from Reece Topley’s second set, before being given a life as Topley and Matthew Potts left a high catch to each other.
Eskinazi made the most of his reprieve, crashing his way to 50 from just 19 balls, including three sixes, with Fire well placed on 66 without loss after 40 balls.
The introduction of Rashid applied the brakes - especially to Bairstow who had just eight from his first 18 balls.
Rashid then made the key breakthrough, bowling Eskinazi for 58 from the 51st ball, with Fire needing 82 more to win.
Bairstow began to find his fluency as he and new batter Clarke both launched sixes off Wiese, before Callum Parkinson’s 10-ball set ended badly with a six off Bairstow followed by a no-ball which cost four runs.
Fire were cruising to the win, needing 19 from 20 balls, but Brook emerged again with a stunning boundary catch to remove Bairstow for 44 - looping the ball up first to himself and then to Hose to avoid carrying it over the rope.
But Clarke took his side home, hitting 42 from 22 to keep Fire’s hopes burning.
Harry Brook, who hit 105 for Northern Superchargers
It felt great out there. It felt really good.
We had a tough start. The pitch was doing a fair bit up front. They utilised that well in the powerplay. I had a lot of clarity going out there today knowing we had to score a lot of runs to potentially get through.
As soon as we got out the powerplay it seemed to get better. I had my gameplan, stuck to it, and thankfully I middled a few.
On his England omission and trying to prove a point?
I am just trying to concentrate on myself now. Concentrate on the team that I am playing for at that moment and try and be a matchwinner.
Mike Hussey, Welsh Fire coach
We are still in it for one more day aren't we. We will be watching the Manchester v Southern Brave game tomorrow and cheering on the Originals.
I really hope we can get through to the finals, the guys have worked really hard.
Stephen Eskinazi, who hit 58 for Welsh Fire
"The beauty of this format of the game, it's a fantastic spectator sport and I'm not necessarily the most level headed bloke sometime, I thought we'd won it in the first 20 balls, then I thought we were dust, It's all about momentum.
"Now that we've won the game, I can say it was a pretty special innings to be part of. It's a high-scoring ground and you can't get caught up in the emotions of it all.
"We played good cricket the whole way through and we have a lot of trust in each other. Fingers crossed for tomorrow night.
"We've got some great leaders; I think we have four county captains in the team who are used to expectation and really want to win games for their team. Hopefully we're peaking at the right time."
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Women's 2023
Northern Superchargers vs Welsh Fire (Women)
By Ciara Fearn, Hundred Rising Reporter
Northern Superchargers defeated Welsh Fire by 16 runs to ensure they prepared for this weekend’s The Hundred playoffs in good form.
Marie Kelly’s unbeaten 69 set the stage for the home side’s 144 for four and the Fire struggled in pursuit after losing the key wickets of Tammy Beaumont and Hayley Matthews before they had scored.
Laura Harris and Sophia Dunkley put up a strong fight, helping Fire to 128 for eight, but the Superchargers were relentless in their wicket taking to give them an outside chance of progressing straight through to Sunday’s Women's final.
The Superchargers will need leaders Southern Brave to suffer a wide-margin defeat at Manchester Originals tomorrow to open the door for them to go straight to Lord’s, with a re-match Eliminator against Fire the most likely scenario at the Kia Oval on Saturday.
Superchargers got off to an aggressively good start, as Kelly put on a wonderful performance to ensure a strong powerplay.
Kelly was supported by Phoebe Litchfield’s classy and innovative 40 off 26 balls, the Australian highlighting her hitting with a reverse slog over cover for six.
The retiring Alex Hartley, Freya Davies, Dunkley and Claire Nicholas - who took a brilliant catch to dismiss Litchfield – all claimed a wicket apiece.
Dunkley gave Fire their breakthrough wicket taking a stunning catch off her own bowling when Jemimah Rodrigues tried to take on the leg spinner but knocked the ball straight back.
Although Fire had already made scores of 165, 144, 181 and 161 in the competition so far - those had all come from having batted first – and their task became more complicated when the Superchargers struck gold with two early wickets.
Most notably the in-form Tammy Beaumont, a leading run scorer for Welsh Fire, was caught by Kate Cross off Lucy Higham. In the next set Hayley Matthews was then caught by Phoebe Litchfield off Cross.
Welsh Fire gained ground as Australian batter Laura Harris put on a striking performance with a steady 37, edging the visitors towards that 145 total needed to win.
However, another breakthrough wicket was swiftly taken again as Cross bowled Harris and Dunkley followed not far behind, going for 29 runs off 22 balls, when Kelly held on to a catch off Alice Davidson-Richards.
Sarah Ballinger also put in a strong performance as she took the wickets of Sarah Bryce and Alex Griffiths as the hosts ensured they would head to London with winning form.
Quotes
Marie Kelly - Northern Superchargers
"We are over the moon. We knew we had to win and win well.
"It is always the motto of this team to play with freedom and back ourselves. We wanted to be positive and not take our foot off the gas.
"It was good to get a win and make them question things and doubt themselves maybe (the two teams are likely to meet again in Saturday's eliminator).
"We are really confident. Winning is a habit. "
Gareth Breese - Welsh Fire coach
"Obviously not the result we wanted. We wanted to come here and play our best and hopefully put ourselves in a position to be top. But it happens.
"There were a lot of good things, we didn't get the result but I am really upbeat about Saturday. Every time you get to a semi-final it is going to be competitive.
"Hopefully we can turn up and play our best cricket."
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