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Brave scrape home to seal top-three finish
Jess Jonassen's 4 for 10 is in vain as Welsh Fire remain winless
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20-Aug-2025
Southern Brave 112 for 7 (Bouchier 35, Jonassen 4-10) beat Welsh Fire 111 for 6 (Elwiss 36*, Dunkley 31) by three wickets
Top-of-the-table Southern Brave continued their unbeaten start to this year's women's competition in the Hundred and guaranteed themselves a top-three finish with a nervy penultimate-ball victory over a spirited Welsh Fire.
Needing six runs from the final five, Mady Villiers was run out coming back for two from the first delivery of the set before Georgia Adams was almost brilliantly caught in the deep as she and Rhianna Southby scampered back for two and got Brave over the line with a ball to spare.
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Charles and David also contributed with the bat to hand Patriots their third loss in four games
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20-Aug-2025
St Lucia Kings 200 for 8 (Chase 61, Charles 52, David 46, Mayers 2-24, Farooqi 2-31, Salamkheil 2-34) beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots 197 for 6 (Holder 63, Bidaisee 50, Pierre 2-25, Chase 2-27) by three runs
After a washout in their opening game, St Lucia Kings beat St Kitts and Nevis Patriots by three runs in a last-ball thriller in Basseterre to register their first win of CPL 2025. This was Patriots' third loss in four games.
After being sent in, Kings rode on the half-centuries of Johnson Charles and Roston Chase and a 23-ball 46 from Tim David to post 200 for 8. Patriots started well in their chase but had lost three wickets by the end of the powerplay. It became 66 for 4 after nine overs. At that point, ESPNcricinfo's Forecaster gave Patriots a 5.32% chance of winning.
Full postRehan Ahmed spearheads Trent Rockets' fourth win out of five
Legspinning allrounder takes 2 for 14 then belts 45 not out against abject Originals
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19-Aug-2025
Trent Rockets 101 for 3 (Rehan 45*) beat Manchester Originals 98 for 8 (Willey 3-11, Rehan 2-14, Cook 2-21) by seven wickets
David Willey and Rehan Ahmed spearheaded a superb display from Trent Rockets as they made short work of Manchester Originals and moved level on points with Oval Invincibles at the top of the table.
Willey, the Rockets' captain, was in inspired form at Trent Bridge, bowling 20 of the first 30 deliveries in the Originals' innings and returning figures of 3 for 11, his best in the Hundred, as the visitors made just 98 for 8 from their 100 balls.
Full postBen Geddes cracks unbeaten 141 to keep Middlesex in the mix
Geddes shares unbroken stand worth 195 with Luke Hollman as Kent struggle continues
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19-Aug-2025
Middlesex 283 for 4 (Geddes 141*, Hollman 77*) beat Kent 279 for 6 (Leaning 63*, Benjamin 50, Brookes 3-47, Morgan 3-62) by six wickets
Ben Geddes and Luke Hollman hit career-bests as Middlesex raced to a six-wicket win over strugglers Kent at Radlett to keep their hopes of a place in the Metro Bank Cup's knockout stages alive.
Geddes led the way with an unbeaten 141, his first century in List A cricket, while Hollman made his maiden half-century in the format, the pair sharing a record unbroken stand of 195 for the fifth wicket as the hosts chased down a target of 280 with five overs to spare.
Full postKathryn Bryce, Sophie Ecclestone star in crushing Originals win
Scotland allrounder Bryce takes two wickets and hits unbeaten fifty in ten-wicket triumph
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19-Aug-2025
Manchester Originals 113 for 0 (Bryce 61*, Mooney 47*) beat Trent Rockets 111 for 7 (Sciver-Brunt 34, Filer 3-23) by ten wickets
Kathryn Bryce starred with bat and ball and Sophie Ecclestone was at her parsimonious best as Manchester Originals cruised to a 10-wicket victory over Trent Rockets at Trent Bridge and moved third in the table.
Having taken 2 for 19 to help restrict the hosts to 111 for 7, Bryce steered the chase with an unbeaten 61 from 45 deliveries, receiving strong support from Aussie star Beth Mooney, who made 47 not out from 37 balls.
Full postMaharaj's masterful maiden ODI five-for hands South Africa 1-0 series lead
Aiden Markram, Temba Bavuma, Matthew Breetzke also made important half-centuries as South Africa thumped Australia by 98 runs
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19-Aug-2025
South Africa 296 for 8 (Markram 82, Bavuma 65, Breetzke 57, Head 4-57) beat Australia 198 (Marsh 88, Maharaj 5-33) by 98 runs
Keshav Maharaj claimed his first ODI career five-for as South Africa registered an emphatic, series-opening win over Australia in Cairns.
Defending the highest total at the venue, 296, South Africa grabbed the match by the horns when they took 6 for 29 between the eight and 17th overs, as Maharaj delivered a sterling spell in which he found appreciable turn and maintained a consistent line to pick up 5 for 33. The margin finished as Australia heaviest runs defeat at home since 1991.
Full postJordan Cox, Sam Curran fifties seal thumping win for Oval Invincibles
Rashid Khan takes three wickets in a set as Southern Brave suffer third straight defeat
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18-Aug-2025
Oval Invincibles 134 for 3 (Cox 56, S Curran 50*) beat Southern Brave 133 (Cartwright 42, Rashid 3-20, S Curran 3-21) by seven wickets
An all-action display from Sam Curran and another eye-catching half-century from Jordan Cox eased reigning champions Oval Invincibles to a seven-wicket win over Southern Brave and extended their lead at the top of the table.
Set 134 to win, Invincibles lost their openers cheaply, Will Jacks and Tawanda Muyeye both falling to Craig Overton, but Cox continued his red-hot form with a classy 37-ball 56 and Curran capped a fine all-round performance by making an unbeaten 50 from 32 deliveries.
Full postPerfect Southern Brave inflict record run defeat on Oval Invincibles
Victory by 89 runs sees Brave make it five from five, as Sophie Devine stars again
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18-Aug-2025
Southern Brave 161 for 6 (Wolvaardt 36, Bouchier 34, Franklin 2-28) beat Oval Invincibles 72 (Villiers 3-17) by 89 runs
Southern Brave produced a devastating all-round performance to inflict a record-breaking 89-run defeat on Oval Invincibles at Utilita Bowl to maintain their 100 per cent record and move top of the table.
Set 162 for victory, the Invincibles could only muster 72, never recovering from a two-wicket burst by Sophie Devine (2 for 15) in her opening set, the Kiwi castling Meg Lanning with a peach before sending Lauren Winfield-Hill on her way three balls later.
Full postFuller four-for, Gubbins 87* lead Hampshire's thrashing of Surrey
Uneven contest at The Oval as visitors coast home with whopping 30.5 overs to spare
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18-Aug-2025
Hampshire 162 for 1 (Gubbins 87*) beat Surrey 160 (Fuller 4-34, Neal 3-33) by nine wickets
Excellent bowling from veteran seamer James Fuller, inexperienced slow left-armer Andrew Neal and pacy 16-year-old Manny Lumsden proved too much for Surrey at the Kia Oval in what became an embarrassingly one-sided nine-wicket Hampshire victory.
The Hawks dismissed Surrey for 160 in 46.3 overs before skipper Nick Gubbins anchored a buccaneering chase with 87 not out from 60 balls. Hampshire's fourth win in five Group A matches, clinched with a massive 30.5 overs to spare, boosts their ambitions of qualification for the Metro Bank One-Day Cup knockout stages.
Full postLivingstone leads from front to keep Birmingham Phoenix in hunt
Suffocating bowling performance trips up London Spirit as Phoenix claim second win of season
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17-Aug-2025
Birmingham Phoenix 131 for 3 (Clarke 54, Livingstone 45*) beat London Spirit 126 for 6 (Williamson 33, Boult 2-20, Livingstone 2-26) by seven wickets
A classy all-round performance from skipper Liam Livingstone took Birmingham Phoenix to victory against an off-colour London Spirit in a statement victory that breathes new life into their campaign.
Starting the day at the foot of the table, the Phoenix knew defeat would effectively end their hopes of progressing and they played with the requisite urgency of a team fighting to stay alive.
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