The finals are tomorrow (Saturday)
Southern Brave Women will play the Oval Invincibles, while Southern Brave Men will play Birmingham Phoenix, for the first title in this new competition. We will have that coverage for you on the OBO, as ever. Till then, I’ll leave you with Jonathan Liew’s match reports from the men’s and women’s eliminators …
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Southern Brave win by 32 balls
Seven wickets in hand, and a very comfortable win. Both the women’s and men’s teams for the Brave are through to the finals tomorrow.
Today was about the joint bowling effort between Garton, Jordan, Overton and Mills. They never let the Rockets into the game with the bat. That set it up for Stirling and Vince to come in and dominate when it was their turn to score.
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68 balls: Southern Brave 97-3 (Vince 45, Whiteley 7) Inspired, perhaps, Cook runs up and zings a bouncer over Whiteley’s head. But when he pitches up Whiteley plonks him down the ground. Splices a pull shot away for one. Leaving Vince to open the face and back-cut behind point for four. That’s the win.
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60 balls: Southern Brave 85-3 (Vince 39, Whiteley 1) Ten in a row for de Lange, and it’s an impressive spell. Short, fast, fierce. Well up past 90 miles an hour throughout. Up into the ribs of Whiteley. And keeping a smile beaming throughout the spell. Finishes his day with 2 for 16.
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Davies c Moores b de Lange 3, Brave 83-3
High into the air, and Davies is dropped. Gets the mis-hit via de Lange’s pace, while trying to go over mid off. Hales has to run back with the flight and can’t hold on, looking back over his shoulder. But no matter: de Lange rushes another ball right through Davies, taking the inside edge en route to the keeper. Umpire says no, but DRS says yes.
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50 balls: Southern Brave 81-2 (Vince 38, Davies 1) Make that his ten. Rashid continues, and Vince slog-sweeps him for six! Has played the leg-spinner really well today. Continues to, sweeping him along the ground and fine for four. The shorter the format, the more convincing Vince seems to be in it.
45 balls: Southern Brave 71-2 (Vince 29, Davies 1) Rashid Khan is back, and back on form. Two singles from his five.
WICKET! Stirling c de Lange b Carter 31, Brave 69-2
40 balls: Southern Brave 69-2 (Vince 28) Finally some joy for Matthew Carter. Four byes through the keeper’s legs, four runs as Stirling reverse-sweeps him over backward point, but to finish his set he gets the wicket. Stirling tries to go big down the ground and miscues to mid off, de Lange taking a difficult high catch trekking back. Nearly drops it, ricocheting over his own shoulder, but he spins around and takes it on the second attempt.
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35 balls: Southern Brave 60-1 (Stirling 27, Vince 27) Marchant de Lange can slow the scoring, bowling short to make Vince defend and duck, but it doesn’t matter. The batters can afford to block him out.
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30 balls: Southern Brave 57-1 (Stirling 25, Vince 26) Samit Patel on for a bowl. It’s really just a farewell tour for the Rockets now. Vince says farewell by whacking Samit back over his head for four.
25 balls: Southern Brave 50-1 (Stirling 23, Vince 21) Huh, Paul Stirling is still out there. He seemed to have vanished after the first over. But he reminds us of his presence by driving Cook down the ground for six! Into the rope on the full. Dead straight.
They’re halfway to the runs in a quarter of the time.
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20 balls: Southern Brave 42-1 (Stirling 16, Vince 20) Even Rashid Khan is capable of an error, occasionally. Bowls Vince a full toss, slapped through midwicket for four. One or two bounces. Emboldened, he stretched forward to the pitch two balls later and lifts it over midwicket. Six! Then sweeps four along the ground for good measure.
15 balls: Southern Brave 28-1 (Stirling 16, Vince 6) Gets up to 94 miles per hour in that over, does de Lange. Vince steals a boundary from him though, thanks to Samit Patel’s fumble at short fine.
WICKET! de Kock c Cook b de Lange 6, Brave 22-1
Marchant de Lange comes in and bowls heat from the first moment. 90 miles an hour as he zeroes in on de Kock’s boots, but the South African keeper plays an effortless on-drive, wide of long on in the end, for four. Second ball though, short and equally fast, and de Kock’s pull shot goes off a top edge miles into the air before being held at square leg.
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10 balls: Southern Brave 18-0 (Stirling 16, de Kock 2) Sam Cook for the second set of five, bustling in to bowl right-arm brisk. Stirling walks at him, gets an inside edge past his stumps while sparring at something too short to do much else with, and gets four. Why not? He’s Paul Stirling.
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5 balls: Southern Brave 12-0 (Stirling 11, de Kock 1) Happy Ireland Day! Matthew Carter is bowling right-arm darts around the wicket. He doesn’t look like he thinks it’ll work, so I don’t know why anyone else would. Paul Stirling wanders out, sweeps four, takes a single, gets the strike back, and belts a flat six over midwicket. That puts a dent in the target.
Here’s our report on the women’s match from earlier.
Trent Rockets bowled out for 96
Well, that’s something. When you only have 100 balls in your innings, being bowled out is a colossal failure. That’s losing a wicket every nine balls for this mob. They lasted 91 deliveries. Samit Patel’s 20 was the top score. Southern Brave should walk this in.
Mills 3 for 8, Garton 3 for 18, Jordan 2 for 15, Overton 2 for 25.
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WICKET! de Lange c de Kock b Mills 7, Rockets al out 96
Same ball, same shot, different bowler. Mills this time gets the nick.
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Carter c de Kock b Jordan 0, Rockets 96-9
90 balls: Trent Rockets 96-9 ( de Lange 0) Baseball shot by de Lange as Jordan sits up a shorter ball. Six runs over midwicket. But every Southern Brave bowler has had reward after the odd moment of disappointment. Jordan ends his over with a ball back of a length outside off, taking the edge of Carter’s flail at the off side.
85 balls: Trent Rockets 88-8 (Carter 0, de Lange 0) Might struggle to crack a hundred now, the Rockets.
WICKET! Rashid Khan c David b Mills 2, Rockets 88-2
They keep coming. Rashid Khan has faced 9 balls for his 2 runs, nearly 10 per cent of the innings. Couldn’t get going today. Tries to go over cover, loops the top edge to backward point.
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80 balls: Trent Rockets 87-7 (Rashid Khan 2, Carter 0) Not much time left for the Rockets. Not many wickets left either.
WICKET! Moores c Overton b Jordan 19, Rockets 87-7
That’s a blow for the Rockets. Moores is the only one who has hit anything cleanly tonight. He gets another good piece of a ball, over long on, but it just drops short. Overton can go back, catch it before stepping over the rope, throw it up and step back inside the field of play for the secondary catch. Third umpire takes a look, but it’s out.
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75 balls: Trent Rockets 83-6 (Moores 18, Rashid Khan 0) Lintott is having a fun day. Finishes off his bowling to Rashid Khan, who can’t do anything with a succession of googlies.
WICKET! Patel c Lintott b Overton 20, Rockets 82-6
70 balls: Trent Rockets 82-6 (Moores 17) Back to back sixes for Moores! Gets a halfway short ball from Overton and smites the pull shot, a real crisp crack of the bat to send it well into the crowd over backward square. But the end of the over falls Overton’s way. Samit Patel hits a drive very sweetly at extra cover, but Lintott at mid off dives across and takes it!
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65 balls: Trent Rockets 73-5 (Patel 20, Moores 8) Enough messing about, says Tom Moores! Four balls from Lintott have gone by without event, but the fifth one sees the left-handed Moores advance and drive way over long off for six.
60 balls: Trent Rockets 64-5 (Patel 18, Moores 1) Tymal Mills, left-arm fast when he wants to be, has 1 for 7 from 10 balls.
WICKET! Gregory c Stirling b Mills 11, Rockets 62-5
The pressure to hit out was there. Gregory tries to smoke through the covers. Hits it well but flat, and Stirling is in the way. A good catch diving forward for the Irishman.
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55 balls: Trent Rockets 60-4 (Patel 17, Gregory 9) George Garton back to finish his day’s bowling, and it’ll be 3 for 18 from his 20 balls. Three singles from his final five.
50 balls: Trent Rockets 57-4 (Patel 15, Gregory 8) Lintott bowls ten balls straight through. Errs down the leg side and Gregory gets a tiny nick, very fine for four. The bowler comes back well with three dots, Gregory unable to find any pace or timing to force the ball away.
45 balls: Trent Rockets 52-4 (Patel 14, Gregory 4) George Lintott, with this strange gangly approach that he has to launch his left-arm wrist spin. Tightens up Samit Patel with his first four balls, over the wicket. But Samit finds his groove after that. Backs away, cut shot for four. Smacks across the line but well saved at midwicket, stops a boundary. Then slog-sweeps the fifth ball for six over square.
40 balls: Trent Rockets 42-4 (Patel 4, Gregory 4) Chris Jordan now. The batting pair working the field, but only finding singles. It’s a quite game just at the moment.
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35 balls: Trent Rockets 39-4 (Patel 2, Gregory 3) Singles only from Tymal Mills, his first bowl of the day. Patel and Gregory need to rebuild.
30 balls: Trent Rockets 36-4 (Patel 1, Gregory 1) Overton helps the batting side by slinging down a bouncer that eludes his keeper and goes for four byes. Not wides.
WICKET! Short c Mills b Garton 6, Rockets 31-4
25 balls: Trent Rockets 31-4 (Patel 1) Samit Patel to the middle early, three wickets in the Powerplay. Make that four! Short hits a full toss for four down the ground, but he tries to hit the last ball of the Powerplay over midwicket, just chipping really, and gets a leading edge that loops up to the field. The left-armer has three.
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WICKET! Mullaney b Overton 5, Rockets 24-3
20 balls: Trent Rockets 24-3 (Short 1) Overton and Garton swapping places again. And again Overton strikes with the fifth ball of his set. Gets glanced for four before that, but follows up with a perfect Test match delivery. Outside off stump, decking back in off the seam. Mullaney tries a big drive over mid on and misses completely. Loses off stump.
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WICKET! Hales c de Kock b Garton 3, Rockets 18-2
15 balls: Trent Rockets 18-2 (Short 0) Another left-hander replaces Malan, the Australian D’Arcy Short. Smacked on the thigh pad by Garton for a leg bye first ball. Hales backs away to hack a cut shot and dropped at point. Tough chance, fast and very low to the ground, and Tim David doesn’t grasp it. But Garton gets him the next ball. Extra bounce again, Hales trying to force square, and another nick through.
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WICKET! Malan c de Kock b Garton 14, Rockets 15-1
Good ball from Garton. Hard into the pitch, some extra bounce. A tight line just outside off. Malan is trying to run it away for a single, maybe fine for a boundary, but the bounce does him. A nick through to the keeper.
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10 balls: Trent Rockets 15-0 (Malan 14, Hales 1) Craig Overton bowling the second set of five, and Malan threads him beautifully through the covers for four. Along the ground. Perfect. Then steps across and clunks a boundary through midwicket. Overton hits the yorker and keeps Malan to a single, which brings Hales onto strike, but he can’t score.
5 balls: Trent Rockets 6-0 (Malan 5, Hales 1) Dawid Malan opening up today, and gets a leg glance away from George Garton’s fifth ball for four.
Teams
Trent Rockets
Alex Hales
Dawid Malan
D’Arcy Short
Steven Mullaney
Lewis Gregory *
Tom Moores +
Samit Patel
Rashid Khan
Matthew Carter
Marchant de Lange
Samuel Cook
Southern Brave
Quinton de Kock +
Paul Stirling
James Vince *
Alex Davies
Tim David
Ross Whiteley
George Garton
Chris Jordan
Craig Overton
Tymal Mills
Jake Lintott
Southern Brave win the toss and choose to bowl
Easier to chase in the Hundred, that’s the theory.
Righto, now for the men’s Eliminator.
The Oval Invincibles are into the final at Lord's
That will come tomorrow, after playing at their home ground at The Oval today. Quite a remarkable performance, but you’d expect that with the experience they have in the side. They will take on Southern Brave tomorrow.
Marizanne Kapp, top scored across both sides for 37 with the bat, then took 3 for 21 with the ball. Tash Farrant 4 for 10! They’ve made it work.
The Hundred men’s Eliminator will be up next. Stay with us.
Oval Invincibles win by 20 runs
What a turnaround. Birmingham looked like they were cruising with Amy Jones at the tiller, but she fell and the rest of the side fell away. Not enough runs to begin with, but the Oval side defended with ferocity.
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WICKET! Gordon c Kapp b Farrant 5, Phoenix all out 94
Another for Farrant! Two in two. A powerful cut shot, but Kapp at backward point snares it with both hands!
WICKET! Arlott c Ismail b Farrant 2, Phoenix 94-9
Another one down! Arlott aims big down the ground, as she must. But can’t get enough of it. Farrant goes top of the wicket-taking table in The Hundred as Ismail takes the catch for her at long on.
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90 balls: Phoenix 92-8 (Arlott 2, Gordon 4) Capsey continues, bowling a full ten balls. Only ones and a two coming. Birmingham need 23 from 10.
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WICKET! Elwiss c & b Capsey 2, Phoenix 87-8
85 balls: Phoenix 87-8 (Arlott 1) Elwiss drives a single, but Birmingham need more than that. Capsey gets through two dots before bowling a full toss, but again Arlott only gets one, out to deep midwicket. Final ball, looped up, dug out back to the bowler.
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80 balls: Phoenix 85-7 (Elwiss 1, Arlott 0) Farrant with one run and a wicket from her five balls, a decisive intervention. Birmingham need 30 from 20 now, a tough ask with three wickets in hand.
WICKET! Davies c Bryce b Farrant 12, Phoenix 85-7
The wickets keep coming! Davies feels she has to be the one to go large, and aims a big shot over the leg side. Only gets enough on it for a high edge that goes behind the left-hander towards short fine leg. The keeper gets across to take it safely.
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WICKET! Wong b Ismail 1, Phoenix 84-6
75 balls: Phoenix 84-6 (Davies 12) Shabnim Ismail is back. Got the toolkit out and turning the screws. Davies takes three balls to get off strike. Wong steps across and can’t get the fourth ball away. Steps across again... and loses leg stump.
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70 balls: Phoenix 83-5 (Davies 11, Wong 1) DVN influencing the game once again. The target is 32 from 30.
WICKET! Kelly c & b van Niekerk 4, Phoenix 81-5
Risk, reward. DVN decides to bowl ten in a row. Gets swept hard for four from the sixth ball, but the eighth is driven hard back past her... but not past her. Caught tumbling across to her right.
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65 balls: Phoenix 76-4 (Davies 5, Kelly 4) Dane van Niekerk’s set of five gets through with three singles. Brum need 39 from 35.
60 balls: Phoenix 73-4 (Davies 4, Kelly 2) Capsey with the ball, keeps all as quiet as Christmas Eve... until the last ball of the five, as Davies goes back and pulls into the gap between long on and midwicket. Hits it to perfection. Four.
55 balls: Phoenix 67-4 (Davies 0, Kelly 1) Time for a rebuild. Not much time in this game, but they’ve got a little bit of it on their side.
WICKET! Jones c van Niekerk b Farrant 35, Phoenix 66-4
Two in two balls! Farrant takes the catch, then the wicket. Full and wide, Jones drives but lofts it, and Dane VN at cover takes the catch. How quickly this game turns.
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WICKET! Burns c Farrant b Kapp 23, Phoenix 66-3
50 balls: Phoenix 66-3 (A Jones 35) Runs keep coming for Ye Olde Phoenix. Kapp on the pads to Amy Jones, clipped for four. Then beats cover with a drive, though the sweeper keeps it to one. No need for risky running at this stage. Birmingham ahead of the game. But not when the last ball comes: Burns drives out the yorker over mid off, gets a good piece, but a brilliant diving catch by Tarrant. Running back, full dive, one hand out, snares it as the ball nearly clears her! Inspirational.
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45 balls: Phoenix 58-2 (A Jones 29, Burns 22) Erin Burns is so clever with the sweeps. Pulls out the reverse sweep against van Niekerk and nails it to the fence.
40 balls: Phoenix 50-2 (A Jones 27, Burns 16) Ismail comes back to stem the runs, and does, to a point. A couple of wides, but not much from the bat.
35 balls: Phoenix 46-2 (A Jones 25, Burns 16) Alice Capsey, one of the sensations of this tournament, bowls. Sizzles one past the edge of Burns, but it beats the keeper too for three byes. Jones backs away to carve four through cover. Burns lofts a single. Runs coming quickly.
30 balls: Phoenix 37-2 (A Jones 20, Burns 15) Burns follows up, stepping away to leg, and smashing straight over mid off! Four! Dane van Niekerk goes even slower through the air to hold up Burns. Singles follow.
25 balls: Phoenix 30-2 (A Jones 19, Burns 9) Shabnim Ismail with the ball. Jones reads her like the Good News Bible. Steps across the stumps to lap-sweep for four through fine leg. Then rocks back to pull one run to mid on.
20 balls: Phoenix 25-2 (A Jones 14, Burns 9) Tash Farrant with the ball. Plenty of wickets in this comp so far. Nearly talks Burns into a run out, coming half way down the track after advancing and getting an inside edge into pad. A single, a leg bye, then Burns edges four through deep third. Farrant throws her head back.
15 balls: Phoenix 18-2 (A Jones 14, Burns 4) Erin Burns walks out, pulls four first ball through backward square. This is the partnership for Birmingham. Need these two classy operators to knock off a good chunk of the chase.
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WICKET! Evelyn Jones c Bryce b Kapp 0, Phoenix 14-2
Evelyn Jones finally gets to face a ball. Kapp bowls wide across the left-hander, big drive, edge into the keeper’s gloves. It’s a rough game sometimes.
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10 balls: Phoenix 9-1 (E Jones 0, A Jones 9) Shabnim Ismail makes up the double South African opening partnership with the ball. Amy Jones uses her extra pace to pull four over midwicket. Then slashes through backward point, should be four but brilliantly saved on the rope.
5 balls: Phoenix 4-1 (E Jones 0, A Jones 4) Amy Jones comes out, smacks a boundary through cover point. The Double Jones Show starts now.
WICKET! Mack c Bryce b Kapp 0, Phoenix 0-1
The South African star strikes early! Mack advances a couple of times, beaten outside off stump. Third ball, gets a nick to the keeper. The Oval team are away.
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Second innings, here we go...
Birmingham Phoenix need 115 to win
Under par by the South London team, but the late flurry has given them something to bowl at.
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100 balls: Invincibles 114-7 (Gibbs 12, Bryce 0) Grace Gibbs finishes things off alright: sweeps four to fine leg off the top edge, glances two more very fun, then chips two over mid off. That’s the innings.
WICKET! Gardner run out 2, Invincibles 105-7
Another one goes. Gardner hits out to deep midwicket, thinks of the second, gets sent back, trips and stumbles, and is way short of her ground at the non-striker’s end.
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95 balls: Invincibles 104-6 (Gardner 1, Gibbs 3) Gordon 2 for 22 as she finishes her bowling for the day. Held the Invincibles nicely.
WICKET! Villiers c Mack b Gordon 4, Invincibles 100-6
Two in two for Brum. Bashed out to dee midwicket by Villiers. Easy catch.
WICKET! Villiers run out 26, Invincibles 100-5
Hit to midwicket, they take on the arm for the second, and the arm wins. Had to run. Fair enough.
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90 balls: Invincibles 99-4 (Capsey 26, Villiers 3) Burns gets through her Jane Austen with nothing but singles until the last ball, when Capsey backs away and slogs over mid off for four.
85 balls: Invincibles 92-4 (Capsey 21, Villiers 1) Mady Villiers next in, who we mentioned earlier. Slaps to deep midwicket for a single. Burns beats the edge of Capsey. She’s going to bowl 10 in a row.
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WICKET! Kapp b Arlott b Burns 37, Invincibles 90-4
Down the track, toe ended trying to clear long on, and Kapp is caught inside the circle.
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80 balls: Invincibles 90-3 (Kapp 37, Capsey 20) Elwiss back. Her slower meds are hard to get away. A couple of dots, a couple of singles, a dot to finish.
75 balls: Invincibles 88-3 (Kapp 36, Capsey 19) Issy Wong back to try to blast them out. But pace onto the bat means pace off it. Kapp lifts her over long on for six! Straight hit through the ball. Wong tries the slower ball but it loops down the leg side. Short and Kapp pulls for four. Top edge, deep midwicket, Katie Mack slaps it back on the bounce but has stepped outside the rope, and she signals four to the umpire.
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70 balls: Invincibles 74-3 (Kapp 25, Capsey 18) Now they’re up and running. Gordon the spinner bowling. Kapp drives wide of mid-off, Capsey reverses, one boundary apiece.
65 balls: Invincibles 64-3 (Kapp 20, Capsey 13) Now Capsey is in on the act, down the track to Maqsood and punting the spinner straight down the ground. Four runs.
60 balls: Invincibles 57-3 (Kapp 18, Capsey 8) Arlott is back, keeping the lid on it until Kapp slashes four runs down through deep third. Will that get them going?
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55 balls: Invincibles 49-3 (Kapp 13, Capsey 5) Erin Burns into the attack, the Australian all-rounder with her off-breaks. Landing them wide, making the batters wait. Four singles.
50 balls: Invincibles 45-3 (Kapp 11, Capsey 3) Elwiss continuing, and the batting team just can’t get away. A couple of singles. Falling behind the rate.
45 balls: Invincibles 42-3 (Kapp 9, Capsey 2) Maqsood starts to the land them, floating her bowling down. Kapp hits cover and is annoyed, then threads the gap between cover and mid off for four.
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40 balls: Invincibles 37-3 (Kapp 5, Capsey 1) Two singles from Gordon’s five balls, plus the wicket. Alice Capsey gets off strike via a misfield, then Gordon has an lbw shout turned down against Kapp. Inside edge.
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WICKET! Wilson c & b Gordon 21, Invincibles 36-3
Lamped back at the bowler, who takes it comfortably despite Wilson getting a good piece of it. Problems for the Oval team now.
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35 balls: Invincibles 35-2 (Wilson 21, Kapp 4) Wilson trying to line up the medium pace of Georgia Elwiss, but not convincing. Drives two through cover via a misfield, drags one over mid on from the top edge. They’ve just caught up to a run a ball.
30 balls: Invincibles 29-2 (Wilson 18, Kapp 1) Abtaha Maqsood on to bowl her leg-breaks, but she’s not landing them. Kapp only drives a run down the ground from the full toss, but Wilson sweeps through midwicket for four.
25 balls: Invincibles 23-2 (Wilson 13, Kapp 0) Issy Wong is back, charging in and trying to fling them down, but she bowls too wide. Twice. Wilson carves them both away for four: front foot through cover, back foot over point. Clean. Wong responds with a bouncer and a yorker into the pads, two dot balls.
20 balls: Invincibles 15-2 (Wilson 5, Kapp 0) DVN’s South African compatriot and partner comes out to the middle. Arlott concedes two runs from her second five balls.
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WICKET! van Niekerk c Kelly b Arlott 2
It doesn’t work for the Oval skipper in this knockout match. Half volley from the medium pacer, or at least Dane makes it a half volley by advancing. But doesn’t get all of it, or even much of it. Hits it low to mid on in the air.
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15 balls: Invincibles 13-1 (van Niekerk 2, Wilson 5) A review by the Birmingham team, and van Niekerk is walking... but she’s not out! Umpire says no. Jones goes upstairs. The vision shows Kirstie Gordon has landed her left-arm spin in line with the right-hander’s stumps, straightening down the line. Dane VN thinks that is enough. But stops halfway off, and DRS shows the ball going over. Wilson celebrates by sweeping four off the top edge over short fine leg.
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10 balls: Invincibles 7-1 (van Niekerk 1, Wilson 1) Emily Arlott on for the second five, bowling her mediums outside off stump. A wide and a single the only scores.
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5 balls: Invincibles 7-1 (van Niekerk 0, Wilson 1) Fran Wilson to the middle already.
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WICKET! Adams c Jones b Wong 4, Invincibles 5-1
Wicket in the first over! Issy Wong is the speed sensation of this tournament, and the young quick does it again here. Gets driven through cover by Georgia Adams, then comes back with a ball that has extra bounce. Adams tries to cut and gets a fine nick. No one thinks so except Wong, but she convinces her captain behind the stumps to go for a review, and the spike is there.
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Toss
Birmingham win the toss and choose to chase
Teams
Oval Invincbles
Georgia Adams
Dane van Niekerk *
Fran Wilson
Marizanne Kapp
Alice Capsey
Mady Villiers
Natasha Farrant
Sarah Bryce +
Grace Gibbs
Joanne Gardner
Shabnim Ismail
Birmingham Phoenix
Evelyn Jones
Katie Mack
Amy Ellen Jones * +
Erin Burns
Gwenan Davies
Marie Kelly
Isabelle Wong
Emily Arlott
Georgia Elwiss
Kirstie Gordon
Abtaha Maqsood
As has been pointed out to me, the phrasing of the Eliminator does bring this to mind...
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Preamble
The Hundred Eliminators. The stage that every child has dreamed of appearing on, since time immemorial. The Oval Invincibles won the first match ever played in The Hundred in dramatic style, when Mady Villiers hit a six in the final stages to get her team over the line.
Now they’re back at The Oval, their home ground, in the first ever elimination match of this new tournament. Their opponents today: the Birmingham Phoenix. England keeper Amy Jones will be leading out the latter team, and hoping to subvert home ground advantage.
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