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The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 4th August
Here are all The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards for 4th August.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Men's 2023
Southern Brave (Men) vs Welsh Fire (Men), 5th Match, The Hundred Mens
Chris Jordan smashed an exhilarating 70 off 32 balls to give Southern Brave their first Hundred victory of 2023 in a two-run nail-biter over Welsh Fire.
England star Jordan dragged Brave from 76 for eight – with Pakistan star Haris Rauf taking three wickets – to 147 with seven ginormous sixes and a trio of fours for just his second T20 half-century.
Leg-spin sensation Rehan Ahmed, Craig Overton and last-set hero Tymal Mills all claimed two wickets as the 2021 winners bounced back from their opening game defeat to Trent Rockets.
Brave were stuck in and after 76 balls were 76 for eight and looking down the barrel of an embarrassing sub-three-figure total.
Fast bowler Rauf was the main architect of the slaughter with three for 27 – picking up Finn Allen caught behind off a bouncer, bowling George Garton and bouncing James Fuller out. All done for Rauf’s express pace.
Shaheen Shah Afridi returned to the Ageas Bowl for the first time since taking four in four balls in the Vitality Blast three years ago and had Devon Conway gloving behind.
James Vince, Tim David, Leus du Plooy and Rehan Ahmed also fell into the pile.
Jordan had eight off 14 balls when Ahmed was run out before exploding in a style which got the 12,403 fans at the Ageas Bowl rocking.
He thumped Rauf down the ground for his first six, fast forward to 22 off 19 balls and Roelof van der Merwe’s left arm spin bore the brunt of a hurricane of sixes.
Long off, mid-wicket and square leg were cleared before clipping David Payne off his legs for a stylish maximum as his fifty came up in 26 balls.
Two more sixes and 19 runs off the last five balls took the stand with Overton to 71 in 25 balls, with Jordan contributing 62 of them.
Tim David dropped a dolly to give Luke Wells a life with the first ball of the reply but Joe Clarke suffered his second golden duck in a row.
Wells slogged to long on and Stevie Eskinazi – who had scooped his first ball for an audacious six – was stumped after a 41-run stand between the pair as Ahmed’s leg spin caused problems.
Tom Abell drilled to cover, Glenn Phillips’ top edge picked out deep fine and Fuller’s parsimonious first 15 balls went for just 11 runs to put Brave in the box seat.
Willey hit two sixes off Fuller’s last five before Ben Green went six, four, caught at long on to make the equation 14 off seven balls.
Willey scored eight off the first four balls of the last set but needing three off the last he was caught at point as the ground bounced
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Women's 2023
Southern Brave (Women) vs Welsh Fire (Women), 5th Match, The Hundred Womens
Hayley Matthews ended Southern Brave’s unbeaten home record with a magnificent individual performance as Welsh Fire claimed a four-run win.
Matthews struck an impressive 65 to propel the Fire to 165 for three - their record score in The Hundred – before the West Indies international defended nine in the final set.
Danni Wyatt and Smriti Mandhana both scored half-centuries in the chase but it was not enough as the Brave’s women’s team lost at the Ageas Bowl for the first time since the competition began.
Sent in to bat by Anya Shrubsole, Welsh Fire immediately looked a different prospect to previous seasons and were full of intent from the start of their innings.
Matthews timed her first ball from Shrubsole through the covers and struck an array of impressive drives, sweeps, and punches as she raced to her fifty off just 26 balls, the quickest half-century in Welsh Fire history.
Fire captain and England star Tammy Beaumont joined in the fun in the final set of the powerplay, cutting loose and hitting Chloe Tryon for three boundaries.
The hard-hitting Laura Harris was promoted up the order to capitalise on the fast-start, and she struck two enormous sixes to race to 20 off seven balls, before an incredible piece of fielding from Maia Bouchier with a direct-hit from the long-on boundary brought about her demise.
Matthews finally fell for a fantastic 65 chipping a return catch back to Tryon.
Sarah Bryce and Georgia Elwiss rotated the strike well before finishing with a flurry in a partnership of 48 to bring the score to 165 for three, only one run short of matching the record score in The Women’s Hundred.
Mandhana and Wyatt seemed to relish the task of pulling off a record run chase, and were quickly into their work. Wyatt struck boundaries all around the ground, including two enormous sixes over the leg side, as she raced to a sublime half-century off just 31 balls.
Alex Griffiths brought the much-needed breakthrough for the Fire, as Wyatt holed out on 67 to Matthews at long on to end a 96-run opening stand.
Mandhana then assumed the responsibility of leading the home charge and dominated the Fire bowling, not deterred by losing Bouchier who was smartly stumped by Bryce of Griffiths.
Mandhana accelerated to a classy half-century from 33 balls, and continued to score freely, finishing on a stylish 70 from just 42 deliveries.
But she was unable to see enough of the strike late on and while Brave looked on course with nine required off the final-set of five balls, Matthews took centre stage.
Matthews had Tryon stumped off the first ball, and then limited Mandhana and Freya Kemp to just three singles off her remaining balls to secure a historic win for Welsh Fire.
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