Originals vs Phoenix, 28th Match at Manchester, Men's Hundred, Aug 24 2025 - Match Result

Wins it with an extra cover drive! A comprehensive performance is capped off with 17 deliveries to spare as Phoenix seal victory by seven wickets! Duckett's had a tough tournament but he walks off unbeaten with 49, having managed just 54 from six previous innings....

Wide on the crease, worked into deep midwicket... Bethell was keen on the second but Duckett said no before apologising as the two fielders converging on the ball delay one another with a polite "after you, no I insist"

Full, angling into middle and off at 80mph, bunted into the ground and back to the bowler

"Oh my word" yelps Duckett as a short delivery zips threw off a length, only 85mph on the clock but that looked a heck of a lot more. Duckett certainly thought so

Yorker on leg stump from wide of the crease, 86mph, worn by Bethell down to long leg for a bye

Pace off, short, flummoxes Duckett who ends up pulling around the corner with just one hand on the bat... but falls short of Hartley, who ends up wearing it on the shin

Nailed! Dug in, good pace, but the angle allows Ducket to swivel into the shot and clear Hartley at long leg. Was only a 55m six, too

Wide on the crease, Duckett goes to pull around the corner but ends up hitting it down towards Buttler

Wide on the crease, short, hurries Bethell into a pull shot, but there's no one in the ring to profit from the fact that was tamely played in the air

Angled into middle, bit of nip away, Bethell just about covers that with the full face

Darted into the hip, stump height, worked away behind square nicely, and good pace on the first run means Bethell can scamper back for a second to keep the strike

Taken this time! Another duffed hoik across the line, high up again... but grabbed well by Hurst who was circling at deep midwicket

Tight to the stumps, skied in the air... and put down by Currie! Five catches down today... and four of them from the team who are walking this

Pace on again, 83mph, into the top of middle, bus-wheeled out to deep midwicket

Wide on the crease, pace on bouncer catches Livingstone a little by surprise, who decides to leave instead of having a thrash

Full, on leg stump, driven out to deep midwicket

Wide on the crease, yorker just outside off, dug out to backward point

pace on, 81mph, into the armpit, worked on top of the bounce down to long on

Play and a miss outside off! Length, Livingstone attempts to drive on the up but misses