Alice Davidson-Richards and Kate Cross impressed after being overlooked of England’s Cricket World Cup squad as Northern Superchargers knocked two-time champions Oval Invincibles out of Hundred play-off competition.
Davidson-Richards hit 50 from 32 balls, together with 9 fours, because the hosts reached their goal of 126 with 5 deliveries to spare at Headingley for a seven-wicket victory and fifth win in seven video games.
Cross – who described her World Cup omission as “savage” – had earlier taken 2-16 and a sensible catch within the deep to assist restrict Invincibles, Hundred winners in 2021 and 2022, to 125-6.
Superchargers are actually as much as 20 factors and can safe a top-three end by profitable their ultimate group recreation towards Manchester Originals on Tuesday, though they may nonetheless advance with a defeat such is their robust internet run-rate.
However Invincibles stay on eight factors after a fifth defeat in seven and are actually unable to achieve the knockout levels
Skipper Lauren Winfield-Hill (35 off 40) top-scored for Invincibles, whereas Australian trio Phoebe Litchfield (29 off 21), Annabel Sutherland (17no off 16) and Nicola Carey (25no) shone for Superchargers within the run chase.
How do matches work?
- 100 balls a aspect, the workforce with probably the most runs wins. It is so simple as that.
- 5 bowlers can bowl as much as 20 balls in an innings, together with 5 or 10 in a row.
- The standard six-ball overs seen in different types of cricket aren’t utilized in The Hundred, with 10 balls bowled earlier than a change of ends.
- The powerplay is for the primary 25 balls of an innings, with solely two fielders allowed outdoors the 30-yard circle.
- A 25-ball-a-side recreation is the minimal size that may be performed within the occasion of moist climate.
What’s subsequent?
Sunday is a four-match day in The Hundred, with Welsh Fireplace taking over Trent Rockets in Cardiff (ladies’s match at 11am, males’s at 2.30pm), plus Manchester Originals vs Birmingham Phoenix at Emirates Previous Trafford (ladies’s match at 2.30pm, males’s at 6pm).
Watch each match throughout the ladies’s and males’s competitions in The Hundred stay on Sky Sports activities from August 5-31.