The Hundred Men's and Women's - Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 1st August 2023
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The Hundred Men's and Women's - Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 1st August 2023
The Hundred Men's and Women's - Match Reports, Results, Scorecards 1st August 2023
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Men's 2023
Trent Rockets (Men) vs Southern Brave (Men), 1st Match
Defending champions Trent Rockets kicked off their Men’s Hundred campaign with a six-run victory over 2021 champions Southern Brave in a low-scoring contest at Trent Bridge, Daniel Sams and Lewis Gregory taking three wickets each.
Sam Hain’s 63 off 39 balls rescued the Rockets from 54 for five with support from Imad Wasim - a last-minute substitute after Rashid Khan’s 11th hour withdrawal - but with Chris Jordan's three for 18 the stand-out performance in a solid bowling display, 133 from 100 looked below par.
Yet, on a slow pitch was offering the bowlers some help, it was too much for Brave, who were 41 without loss from 37 balls but lost five wickets for 32 in the next 28, a position from which they never recovered, despite some late heroics with the bat from Jordan, bowled out for 127 from 99 balls.
Asked to bat first, Rockets lost their top three batters for 25 inside the powerplay. Alex Hales miscued Craig Overton to mid-wicket and Dawid Malan sent up a steepler off the same bowler that Vince had plenty of time to get under. In between, George Garton produced a beauty to bowl Tom Kohler-Cadmore.
Neither Colin Munro nor Lewis Gregory fared any better at imposing themselves, the former skying one from Tymal Mills that was comfortably caught at mid-off, with skipper Gregory hit squarely in front by Jordan to perish for two as Rockets reached the 50-ball mark at a miserable 54 for five. Scoring chances were generally scarce as the Brave attack kept their discipline, backed up for the most part by some excellent fielding.
Hain at last gave a subdued home crowd some excitement when Overton returned for his final set to be hit for three boundaries in a row, the middle one a falling-over scoop that carried over the rope and he and Imad were able to put together something of a recovery.
They added 78 in 49 balls - 48 of them in the last 25 - before both fell in a dramatic finale to the innings that saw Jordan run out Hain then bowl Imad and Matt Carter with his next two deliveries before Luke Wood survived the hat-trick ball.
The priority for Brave in the chase would have been to lose no early wickets and though they were merely level with Rockets for runs after their opening 25, the difference was that the wickets fallen space on the scoreboard still showed zero.
Things looked much less comfortable at halfway. Devon Conway’s top edge off Gregory pinged off his helmet to point, then Imad entered the attack with two wickets in eight balls. His first delivery did for Vince, stumped going down the pitch to one that spun away, before Finn Allen, who had looked the man most likely to carry Brave home, holed out to long-on, leaving Brave 51 for three from 48 balls.
As panic set in, Garton skewed Matt Carter to short fine leg and Tim David, looking to ease the pressure, picked out Hales at long-on, before another slightly freakish delivery saw James Fuller caught behind off glove and pad to leave Brave six down for 89, needing 45 from 22 balls.
Leus du Plooy was caught behind in a scoop attempt, Jordan pulled Wood for six, was dropped at short third on 16 - a gallant one-handed effort by sub fielder John Turner - but was yorked by Daniel Sams for 22 off 11 with nine needed from three before Overton was run out and Mills leg before.
Top Tournament Stats - The Hundred Women's 2023
Trent Rockets (Women) vs Southern Brave (Women), 1st Match
Southern Brave, twice the beaten finalists in the Women’s Hundred, launched their bid to go one better with an emphatic 27-run victory over Trent Rockets in the opening match of the 2023 edition.
India’s Smriti Mandhana led the way for Brave with a powerful 55 off 36 balls, backed up by Maia Bouchier’s 31 from 18 and Danni Wyatt’s 27 from 27 before Chloe Tryon’s 23 from 10 added late impetus. Bryony Smith took two for 34 and Kirstie Gordon a tidy one for 17 but wides and no-balls handed Brave 13 free runs.
England star Nat Sciver-Brunt blazed 49 off 31 balls as Rockets tried to overhaul Brave’s 157, but with Mumbai Indians team-mate Harmanpreet Kaur’s 22 the next highest score they were never in serious contention, 18-year-old seamer Mary Taylor starring with the ball for Brave with three for 18 on her competition debut.
Put in, Brave did not find the boundary until ball 18 but with Rockets conceding 11 of those wides in the powerplay rattled nonetheless to a healthy 45 without loss from the first 25, Mandhana picking up back-to-back fours off Naomi Dattani before launching Katherine Sciver-Brunt over wide long-on for the first six of the afternoon.
Wyatt’s classy 28 off 27 ended when she miscued Smith into the off side before a second six by Mandhana straight down the ground off the same bowler took the Brave to 79 for one from 50 balls.
Bouchier maintained the tempo with 31 off 18 including a swept six off Smith before slicing Alana King to short third and the departure of Mandhana in Smith’s next set, pulling straight to backward square with no addition to the score, checked Brave’s ambitions at 128 for three with two new batters at the crease for the last 18 balls.
Wickets tumbled as Dattani yorked Freya Kemp, Gordon had Georgia Adams caught at long off and Maitlan Brown was run out off the last ball but Tryon’s 23 off 10 balls swelled the total to 157.
The Rockets’ chase started horribly with Smith run-out first ball after some almost comical dithering by Lizelle Lee and the home side found no momentum in the powerplay, emerging with a paltry 21 for two after Dattani had picked out deep square leg off Taylor, who added a second wicket as Lee top-edged to point.
Now Harmanpreet Kaur joined Nat Sciver-Brunt at the crease with a heavy weight on both their shoulders, one that was barely lighter at the halfway point with 110 needed at 2.20 runs per ball. Kaur tried to raise the home crowd’s hopes by slogging Adams over midwicket for six but was out next ball, attempting a repeat that went straight up in the air, wicketkeeper Rhianna Southby taking a comfortable catch.
Fran Wilson soon followed, finding Bouchier at long-on, after which Sciver-Brunt went on a mini-charge with four fours and a six in the space of six balls only for it all to end tamely when she chipped straight back into the hands of her old international team-mate Anya Shrubsole. Taylor came back to claim a third victim as Jo Gardner sliced to cover point as Rockets finished on 130 for seven.
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