Phoenix vs Invincibles, 1st Match at London, Men's Hundred, Jul 23 2024 - Ball by Ball Commentary

dug in short and swatted through square! Oval Invincibles win by eight wickets and get their title defence off to the perfect start

full and straight, 73mph, bottom-handed towards midwicket. There's a misfield but they don't chance it

speared flat on off stump and driven for one in front of square

fired behind the pads at 69mph, must has just flicked the hip

round the wicket, skidded down on leg stump and shovelled away behind square

length ball, 82mph wide of off, Malan cuts on the bounce past backward point

back of a length outside off, Billings guides one down to deep third

short and muscled to midwicket, can't get the ball through

length ball, 83mph on leg stump, tucked to short midwicket

short of a length, swung into the leg side for a couple

fired in straight, squirted down to deep third

short and flipped away leg side, finds another wide open spot at deep backward square. Suddenly this innings had clicked for Billings

goes again, thumped into the stands! Where it's dropped by one of the patrons... first six of the innings, hit high and handsome into the lower section of the pavilion

charges out and hoys through long-on! Billings finally connects with a shot in anger, clubbed into the gap to draw a cheer from the Oval crowd

hits a length and beats Billings' impetuous swings across the line

tight lines, Malan waits and plays late in front of the stumps, dabbed to short third

straighter line, 80mph at the top of the knee roll. Billings swipes it away into the leg side

excellent areas again from Abbott, nibbling through to the keeper with Billings feeling for it outside off

full around leg stump, Malan closes the face looking to go across the line, thick-edged to deep third

fullish and curling away wide of off, Malan swings hard... and doesn't connect, as Donald leaps across slip to take