Oval Invincibles vs Birmingham Phoenix (Match 23) – Highlights
Yesterday, Oval Invincibles and Birmingham Phoenix faced each other in the 23rd match of The Hundred 2022. Where Birmingham Phoenix batted first and set up a great target for the Oval Invincibles. But their innings came to a halt as they ran out of 100 balls to chase that target. As a result, they have to leave the field with a loss. At the end of this match, Birmingham Phoenix is in 3rd place on the points table and Oval Invincibles is in 5th place on the points table after losing the match. On the other hand, Kane Richardson won the man of the match award by bowling brilliantly.
Oval Invincibles won the toss and chose to bowl first and sent off the Birmingham Phoenix to bat. Batting first, they set a huge target of 166 runs after losing 6 wickets due to the performance of Liam Livingstone and Moeen Ali. Will Smeed returned to the dressing room first. He was caught out on the 13th ball. He scored 23 runs off 13 balls with the help of 2 fours and 2 sixes.
Then Miles Hammond left the field after being caught out on the 25th ball. He scored 17 runs off 11 balls. He also hit 1 four and 2 sixes. Captain Moeen Ali played great innings of 42 runs off 25 balls. His innings of 42 runs had 4 sixes. Along with him, Liam Livingstone played an innings of 45 runs off 32 balls. He was caught out on the 86th ball. His innings of 45 runs were studded with 1 four and 4 sixes.
Matthew Wade was caught out on the 96th ball and left the field. He scored 21 runs off 12 balls with the help of 2 fours and 1 six. Chris Benjamin left for the dressing room after scoring 2 runs in 5 balls. Besides, Benny Howell remained unbeaten on 3 runs and Tom Helm on 2 runs. In the end, they scored 166 runs with 11 runs extra.
Matt Milnes took 3 wickets for 32 runs off 20 balls for Oval Invincibles. Sunil Narine took 2 wickets for 21 runs off 20 balls. Besides, Mohammad Hasnain took 1 wicket.
In response, Oval Invincibles stopped at 156 runs after losing 8 wickets off scheduled 100 balls. Jordan Cox scored the most runs for them. He scored 32 runs off 29 balls with the help of 2 fours. Sam Curran scored 30 runs off 20 balls. He was caught out and hit 3 sixes. Tom Curran played great innings of 30 runs off 12 balls. His innings of 30 runs were studded with 2 fours and 3 sixes. He was caught out and left the field.
Jason Roy scored 21 runs off 19 balls with 2 fours. Besides, Will Jacks 4, Riley Rossouw 5, captain Sam Billings 0, and Matt Milnes 4 were out quickly. On the other hand, with the help of 1 four and 1 six, Mohammad Hasnain was unbeaten with 11 runs from 4 balls and Sunil Narine was unbeaten with 6 runs. In the end, they could not reach the target with 13 runs extra.
Tom Helm and Ken Richardson took 3 wickets each for Birmingham Phoenix, besides Henry Brookes and Benny Howell took 1 wicket each.
Oval Invincibles vs Birmingham Phoenix Scoreboard
Oval Invincibles – 156/8 (100)
Birmingham Phoenix – 166/6 (100)
Result – Birmingham Phoenix won by 10 runs
Player of the match – Kane Richardson
Oval Invincibles vs Birmingham Phoenix Playing XIs
| Oval Invincibles | Sam Billings (c & wk), Jason Roy, Rilee Rossouw, Will Jacks, Sam Curran, Jordan Cox, Tom Curran, Matt Milnes, Mohammad Hasnain, Sunil Narine, Nathan Sowter |
| Birmingham Phoenix | Moeen Ali (c), Matthew Wade (wk), Miles Hammond, Will Smeed, Liam Livingstone, Benny Howell, Chris Benjamin, Tom Helm, Kane Richardson, Henry Brookes, Imran Tahir |