Spirit vs Invincibles, 1st Match at London, Men's Hundred, Aug 05 2025 - Match Result

Wins it with a six! Slower ball sits up and Ferreira piles into that one over long on! Emphatic finish from the South African, with a bit of brute strength. A pretty rubbish opening game of the men's competition but the two-time champions Oval Invincibles have their three-peat campaign up and running...

Full, across the right-hander, who swipes hard and across the line, to midwicket

Bumper, decent pace - 84mph - but too high

Short, across Billings, who redirects that towards third with the full face of his bat

Leg side, on the hip, tickled around the corner!

Full, outside off, smashed to Dawson at cover who does well to stop it but can't take it cleanly. The ball ricochets to long off for a single

Flighted, lifted over to midwicket by Ferreira, where Wayne Madsen does well to scurry along the boundary and field

Full, on off stump, pushed back to the bowler

And there Sam Curran goes! Horrid looking shot, swiping across the line to a length ball, but the bounce was very low there. Eeesh

And there it goes! Around the wicket, flighted but over-pitched, Curran goes low to high, launching back over mid on, who is up in the circle

Short, pulled by Curran but kept down. That it went in front of square shows the slow nature of this pitch, but well-watched by the left-hander

Almost two in two! Billings hits a full ball in the air just beyond the dive of Keaton Jennings at cover, flying to his right. Single taken to wide mid off

Bowled him! Full, straight, Cox tries to ramp - did he need to? - and middle stump is taken out of the ground. It's a shot Cox plays well, but not on that occasion!

Into the pitch, Curran pulls across to deep midwicket

Lifted over mid on! In the slot, and though not perfectly out of the middle, a sweet enough connection to clear the straight fielders with ease

Similar pace, pushed straighter this time. Curran things about a single but his hestitation sees the opportunity pass him by

Timed through extra cover! Gets the pace sussed, and shifts his weight quickly to punch a vital boundary

Bit if skid off a length, Curran attempts to cut but ends up scuffing into the ground next to him

Drifts across Curran, who presses forward to punch through the off side but can't quite time it

Gone! Jacks cuts to backward point, hanging back, trying to carve it through the ring but gets it straight to Jennings