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Invincibles vs Fire, 6th Match at Cardiff, Men's Hundred, Jul 28 2024 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
6th Match (N), Cardiff, July 28, 2024, The Hundred Men's Competition
(100 balls, T:114) 103/8

Invincibles won by 10 runs

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CHANGE OF END
after 100 balls14 runs • 1 wicket
WF-M: 103/8
Josh Little1 (1b)
Mason Crane12 (7b 2x4)
Sam Curran
2/25 (20)

9.32pm That'll do for tonight. It was a low-scoring dogfight, but the defending champions take the plaudits. Goodnight!

Sam Billings "As a team we'll take a lot from that, front-loaded with seam, keeping it tight, knowing we had Zampa and Sowter. Hard pitch to start on so getting inner ring fielders tight. Like the London Spirit game last year, Sammy Curran wanted to bowl a bouncer. Slowing the game down, giving people clarity."

DaWolf: "Excellent partnership, but the slow bowling of the specialist batters meant that even a late tail wag wasn't enough. Great bowling from both sides."

Craig: "Eliminator spots look beyond reach for Fire with that batting line up. Bairstow or bust!"

9.22pm Connection crashed at the crucial moment, but ho hum. Invincibles have defended an extraordinarily low target of 114. Remarkable scenes.

Adam Zampa is the Meerkat Match Hero: "Exciting to watch the way we started with the ball, and Sowter through the middle. We needed to navigate 40 balls of legspin, a bit different tonight, less pace in the wicket, hard to score throughout the game."

100
1
Sam Curran to Little, 1 run

it's all academic, but Curran's yorker is good enough, middle-and-leg line, squeezed for a futile single

99
W
Sam Curran to Payne, OUT

low full toss, huge swing, but doesn't get hold of it. Malan at cover pockets a scuffed offering, off the top edge

David Payne c Malan b Curran 28 (15b 1x4 2x6 18m) SR: 186.66
98
2
Sam Curran to Payne, 2 runs

smashed down the ground, long-off intercepts, they are back for two, but it's sixes or bust.

98
1w
Sam Curran to Payne, 1 wide

too far outside off, and given as a wide! 14 off three still needed

97
4
Sam Curran to Payne, FOUR runs

full length, huge swing, a fat outside edge, that'll help the cause!

96
Sam Curran to Payne, no run

looks for the ramp, can't connect.

95
Sam Curran to Payne, no run

full, fast, beats the outside edge, super bowling. And he'll bowl the final set too

94
1
Sam Curran to Crane, 1 run

follows his man with a well-directed short ball, pace off, swatted off the eyebrows, out to deep midwicket

93
1
Sam Curran to Payne, 1 run

pace off again, clawed out to deep midwicket

92
2
Sam Curran to Payne, 2 runs

clipped out to deep midwicket, Lammonby picks it up with one hand, unleashes a flat shy, Billings fumbles with the batter at his mercy! Gosh

91
2
Sam Curran to Payne, 2 runs

pace off, into the wicket, lures a huge wipe across the line... dropped at long-on, rushing in!

Back comes Curran for a key death set ... or two, conceivably

CHANGE OF END
after 90 balls13 runs
WF-M: 89/7Need 25 from 10 balls
Mason Crane11 (6b 2x4)
David Payne17 (7b 2x6)
Spencer Johnson 1/21 (20)

Johnson is done, but his first three sets set the tone

90
Johnson to Crane, no run

full, so close to the off stump, gave himself room and couldn't reach it

89
4
Johnson to Crane, FOUR runs

makes room to leg, edged fine! That was an optimistic slap but it did the needful, beating a despairing dive from deep third!

88
1
Johnson to Payne, 1 run

full, flicked off the pads out to the deep, just the single

There is a pulse. Two more of those and we have a chase

87
6
Johnson to Payne, SIX runs

huge launch over the leg-side! Big boundaries out there but that's massive, hitting with venom up into the bouncer, looking for distance first and foremost!

86
2
Johnson to Payne, 2 runs

huge wind-up, under-edged into the leg-side

after 85 balls13 runs
WF-M: 76/7Need 38 from 15 balls
David Payne8 (4b 1x6)
Mason Crane7 (4b 1x4)
Adam Zampa 3/24 (20)
85
6
Zampa to Payne, SIX runs

huge launch through the line, into the river it goes! Zampa's figures take a late battering, but what a bowler he is

84
1
Zampa to Crane, 1 run

hard flog through the line, down to long-off

83
1
Zampa to Payne, 1 run

slog-sweep, no power through the stroke, "spin, spin" is the cry as the fielder rushes in to deal with the ball

82
1
Zampa to Crane, 1 run
81
4
Zampa to Crane, FOUR runs

skids through outside off, Crane flashes it through deep third for a rare boundary

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