The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 6th August
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The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 6th August
Here are all The Hundred Men's and Women's - Live Scores, Match Reports, Results, Scorecards for 6th August.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Men's 2023
Southern Brave vs Northern Superchargers (Men)
By Matthew Luddington, Hundred Rising Reporter
Harry Brook’s quick-fire half-century guided the Northern Superchargers to a 60-run victory over the Southern Brave as the visitors piled up a record score.
Brook smashed 63 off 27 in his first innings since the Men’s Ashes as the Superchargers racked up 201 for three – the second-highest total in the men’s competition’s history and the highest by the men's Superchargers team.
Matt Short began the free scoring as the Australian clubbed 73 in a first-wicket partnership of 97 with Tom Banton, who added 44 as only Rehan Ahmed and Tymal Mills picked up wickets.
Reece Topley took three for 30 as the Superchargers continued their unbeaten start, and the Brave suffered their second defeat in three matches.
Short overturned an lbw decision on four before unleashing an astonishing assault of drives, pulls, flicks, and punches on the Brave bowlers in his incredible innings of 73.
When Short finally holed out to deep mid-wicket off Ahmed, Banton took on the mantle of big hitting, targeting Leus du Plooy and Mills with some sensational shots.
Craig Overton dropped a simple chance at long-on with Brook on 12, and this proved costly as the Yorkshireman took Tim David for three consecutive sixes.
Overton partially redeemed himself by taking the catch to dismiss Banton for 44 after he skied a Mills slower ball.
David Wiese was run out, however Brook continued to inflict punishment on the bowlers as he reached 73 off just 36 balls, and Adam Hose’s six off the final ball of the innings took the Superchargers to their record score of 201, also the highest total in The Hundred at the Ageas Bowl.
Faced with a record chase, Brave did not get off to a fast start as they only reached 11 off the first ten balls, and lost opener Finn Allen who he drove straight to mid-on.
James Vince started well, latching on to two wide deliveries from Wayne Parnell and helping consecutive leg-side deliveries from Topley behind square for boundaries.
But the run rate slowed down as spin dominated especially left-arm spinner Callum Parkinson, who varied his pace effectively and found turn off a sticky pitch, and England leg-spinner Adil Rashid who used his full repertoire of deliveries.
Devon Conway was caught in the deep by off Parnell and Vince top edged Rashid to point on the ring and Du Plooy was bowled by Topley.
The required rate had become impossible, but David put on some fireworks for the 12,569 Ageas Bowl crowd with four sixes in his 40 off 19 balls.
He was caught attempting a fifth, as Superchargers secured a dominant victory.
Southern Brave captain James Vince:
“We had a long debrief there and it was mainly about what we can do to get back to winning ways.
“It is a fairly heavy defeat and not our best way across all aspects of our game but conditions took us a bit by surprise – we didn’t expect it to spin that much.
“We were off it with the ball. 200 was a fair few over par and it was difficult to get going with the bat.
“We were sloppy in the field so we didn’t help ourselves, but honestly we were completely outplayed from the word go.
“We still had bowling options and we got through with Chris Jordan in the last game with the bowling options we had. In the first few games the batting hadn’t fired so we felt the extra batter would help the balance of the side.
“Given the conditions the batting was okay today but it doesn’t look so great when you are chasing 200.
“We are hopeful of getting CJ back in a week or so. It is still early days with the injury so we will see how he recovers in the next four or five days. We obviously want to get him back as soon as possible.”
Northern Superchargers batter Harry Brook:
“I just want to go out there and strike the ball as well as I could. I haven’t played a lot of T20 or white ball cricket for a while now so to get some out the middle and strike nicely was good.
“We had a good start where Bants and Shorty went from ball one. I just tried to carry on the pace of play and put the pressure on the bowlers.
“I don’t really look who is bowling at me, I don’t really care who is bowling at me. Whether it is the best bowler in the world or the worst I am just trying to be positive and put pressure on them.
“Scoreboard pressure was a big factor on them but we hit our lengths well and there was spin there – we have the best spinner in the world [Rashid] and Parky bowled really well.
“They only have Rehan and Tim David to bowl their spin. We played here on a hybrid a few years ago and it spun so there was good reason to go for the extra spinner.
“Callum was beautiful. He hit his lengths beautifully, changed his pace perfectly and there was just enough in the pitch for him. He couldn’t have bowled any better.”
Oval Invincibles vs Welsh Fire (Men)
By David Diangienda, Hundred Rising Reporter
Tom Curran smashed an unbeaten 38 from 18 balls as the Oval Invincibles snatched a tie against Welsh Fire in a final-ball thriller in front of 21,432 fans at the Kia Oval.
Curran, who hit four sixes, needed three from the last ball and drove David Payne to deep square-leg racing back for the second to beat the fielder’s throw by the barest of all margins as the scored finished level at 138.
Jordan Cox had scored 51 from 43 balls before the Fire struck back in the contest with Ben Green taking two wickets to reduce the hosts to 100 for six.
Joe Clarke top scored for the visitors with 69 from 46 balls while Invincibles quick Gus Atkinson provided further evidence of his growing reputation with three for 26.
After winning the toss and having chosen to bat, Welsh Fire got off to a fast start as Clarke and Luke Wells put on 32 from 15 balls.
Atkinson began to turn the tide as the hosts established their dominance with three wickets from his first ten balls including Fire captain Tom Abell, who was caught behind for a duck.
David Willey helped Clarke launch a recovery before he fell to Zak Chappell for 13, that being the only reward for the seamer who conceded only 15 from his 20 balls.
Ben Green gave Clarke strong support with 25 off 16 balls including two sixes. Clarke’s excellent partnership with Green continued as he reached his half-century from 39 balls thumping Chappell to the cover boundary.
Tom Curran, who took two for 27, ended the partnership of 58 from 36 balls as Green was caught at deep midwicket as the Fire finished the innings with 138 for six.
Fire struck with the first ball of the home side’s reply with Jason Roy caught at gully off Shaheen Shah Afridi.
The visitors might have also removed Will Jacks early on when he swung Willey to deep square-leg but Green fumbled the chance as the ball went over the boundary for four.
Jordan Cox cut Willey for four having already driven Afridi twice to the cover fence and continued to thrive in the powerplay as he lifted David Payne over midwicket for a maximum.
Payne thought he had taken revenge later in the set when Cox appeared to be caught at third by Glenn Phillips but a decision review showed that the ball bounced first.
Cox almost had another close call soon afterwards edging Haris Rauf just past the diving Clarke for four.
Cox dominated the partnership of 58 from 39 balls which ended as Jacks was caught at long off with Green making amends for his earlier mistake.
Having reached his half century from 39 balls, Cox could only add one more before he was brilliantly caught by Green on the boundary, as the fielder palmed the ball back and kept his balance to complete the catch.
Green then took two wickets in five balls with Sam Curran and Heinrich Klaasen both caught in the deep to put pressure back on the home side.
With Oval needing 13 from five, Curran smashed a huge six off Payne that flew out of the stadium, before his final-ball acrobatics snatched a tie.
[Box2] Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Women's 2023
Southern Brave v Northern Superchargers
Northern Superchargers 100/8 lost to Southern Brave 102/5
Rhianna Southby put on a sensational wicketkeeping clinic as Southern Brave returned to winning ways with a thumping five-wicket victory over Northern Superchargers.
Southby affected a Hundred record four wickets – two catches and two stumpings – in her second format match in front of an Ageas Bowl record 9,813.
The retiring Anya Shrubsole starred with two wickets before Georgia Adams’ three for 21 as Superchargers were stifled to just 100.
Maia Bouchier took control of the chase with 31 as Brave eased to the total to make it two wins from three, while Superchargers’ away day blues continued.
Shrubsole won the toss, chose to bowl, and continued her farewell tour with her greatest hits to dismiss overseas duo Jemimah Rodrigues and Pheobe Litchfield. The former with a textbook extravagant in swinging, the latter brilliantly caught on the rise by Southby.
Marie Kelly and Hollie Armitage collaborated with a 43 stand before Southby stooped to take a stumping off a low bouncing ball to see off Armitage before taking an under edge from Alice Davidson-Richards on review.
Southby, who didn’t play in the Southern Vipers’ successful T20 Charlotte Edwards Cup campaign, continued her reign of terror behind the stumps to stump Kelly – who top-scored with an anchoring 39.
A sticky pitch assisted turn for Adams, Kalea Moore and Chloe Tryon, who bowled the bulk of the middle balls, but it was the unrested Lauren Bell and Shrubsole whole went at under a run a ball at either end of the innings.
Bess Heath chipped to mid-off, Leah Dobson was caught and bowled by Adams and Kate Cross was deceived by a cunning Bell slower ball.
Danni Wyatt initially looked the freest flowing batter on display with five sweetly-struck boundaries but came unstuck when she drilled Kate Cross to point.
Indian Smriti Mandhana ticked through the runs with a l'aise au fait style while Bouchier accelerated after a slow start.
Bouchier had been eight off her first 14 balls but exploded with a pair of boundaries and a six in three successive balls.
Mandhana and Georgia Adams swung to deep midwicket, while Bouchier rolled on with a stylish cut shot before she was caught and bowled by Vipers teammate Linsey Smith’s full toss with 14 still required.
Smith and Wareham had both taken two wickets for 11 and 15 respectively to scare the Brave, with Freya Kemp bowled by Wareham to put the hosts five down.
But Tryon pulled a boundary sent Brave top with 13 balls to spare, with Superchargers still only winning two games away from Headingley in their third season.
Oval Invincibles (Women) vs Welsh Fire (Women)
Welsh Fire (81-7) beat Oval Invincibles (80 all out) by three wickets
Shabnim Ismail returned to wreak havoc on her former team-mates as Welsh Fire edged out defending champions Oval Invincibles by three wickets to go top of the Women’s Hundred table.
The South African seamer, who helped the Invincibles to lift successive Hundred titles before switching to Fire this season, starred with three for 12 as the home side were steamrollered for just 80 at the Kia Oval.
Ismail was backed up by Alex Griffiths and Georgia Elwiss, who took two for 15 and two for four respectively and, despite Lauren Winfield-Hill’s defiant knock of 42 from 35 deliveries, the Invincibles lost four wickets for one run in a deadly eight-ball spell.
Elwiss top-scored with 33 from 29 as Fire chased down their target with 20 balls to spare, although Marizanne Kapp’s spell of four for 18 ensured it was far from straightforward.
Having won the toss and put their hosts in, Fire immediately applied pressure in the powerplay as Ismail sent down six successive dot balls, the last of which removed Suzie Bates.
At 23-1, the Invincibles had built some semblance of a platform – but that was demolished by medium-pace pair Elwiss and Griffiths, who both captured a wicket with their second deliveries.
Elwiss had Alice Capsey caught at short third before foxing Kapp with a slower ball that took out her middle stump and Dane van Niekerk fell victim to a similar offering by Griffiths, who also had Paige Scholfield caught on the boundary.
Ismail returned to dismiss Mady Villiers and Ryana MacDonald-Gay with successive balls and, when Eva Gray fell soon afterwards to Claire Nicholas, the Invincibles were wilting at 40 for eight.
But Winfield-Hill led a mini-fightback, with Sophia Smale and then Lizzie Scott helping her to double their side’s total for the last two wickets until the opener was last out, bowled off the penultimate ball by Freya Davies.
Kapp then boosted her side’s faint hopes by removing both Fire openers for ducks – Tammy Beaumont gliding a first-ball outswinger to slip and Hayley Matthews caught at cover in her next set.
However, Dunkley found the boundary regularly with a series of cuts and pulls and she was joined by a capable partner in Elwiss, with the pair sharing the highest stand of the match – 40 from 38.
Fire looked comfortably on course until Scholfield struck twice in as many deliveries, with Dunkley holing out to long on for 28 from 21 and Laura Harris caught at cover.
But Elwiss, given a life on eight when Smale spilled a catch at short third, took advantage to steer Fire within touching distance of victory – only for Kapp to hit back, becoming the third bowler in the game to take two in two.
Although Smale picked up another wicket, it was not enough to rescue the Invincibles and Griffiths struck her for the winning run, courtesy of a misfield.
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