Cricket Highlights, 26 Aug: The Hundred 2022 (Match 26) – Welsh Fire vs Northern Superchargers

Welsh Fire vs Northern Superchargers (Match 26) – Highlights

Northern Superchargers have cruised to an easy 6-wicket victory over Welsh Fire with 9 balls to spare in the 26th match of The Hundred 2022 at the Sophia Gardens in Cardiff on Friday. Along with this, Adam Lyth was selected as the player of the match after playing an amazing innings of 47 runs from 34 balls.

Welsh Fire captain Josh Cobb won the toss and elected to bat first, which propelled the Northern Superchargers to bowl. Coming down to bat, the Northern Superchargers’ bowlers managed to score only 114 runs after losing 4 wickets in the stipulated 100 balls.

The aggressive bowling of the bowlers put the Welsh fire under pressure from the start, which was reflected on their scoreboard. Because they could not get more than 22 runs after losing 1 wicket in 25 balls of power play. Ben Duckett came to the wicket when Tom Banton returned to the dressing room after scoring 6 runs off 9 balls.

Duckett held one end and continued to lead the team forward. As a result, he scored a half-century off 41 balls. In the end, he left the field after playing a great innings of 64 runs off 48 balls. However, although he had 8 boundaries in this innings, no over-boundary was seen. In addition, despite not losing wickets at regular intervals due to the extraordinary bowling of Northern Superchargers’ bowlers, Welsh Fire could not accelerate the wheel of runs.

As a result, the Welsh Fire team needed to play 53 balls to score 50 runs and 91 balls to touch the landmark of 100 runs. Apart from Ben Duckett, no other batsman could score any runs for the team. Matthew Critchley scored 3 runs off 5 balls and David Miller scored 3 runs off 6 balls. In the end, Leus du Plooy remained unbeaten on 21 playing 15 balls.

Craig Miles took the maximum number of 2 wickets for Northern Superchargers. Apart from this, Adil Rashid conceded only 17 runs from 20 balls and David Wiese gave 23 runs from 20 balls, both of them picked a wicket off the opponents.

Chasing an easy target of 115 runs, Northern Superchargers’ two opening batsmen, Adam Lyth and Faf du Plessis got off to a rough start. They both made an opening partnership of 75 runs off 53 balls. Opener Lyth returned to the pavilion after playing a storming innings of 47 runs from 34 balls, with 5 fours and 2 sixes.

After that, captain Faf du Plessis returned to the dressing room after scoring 32 runs off 24 balls for the team’s 84 runs. His innings had an even number of 2 fours and sixes. However, the Northern Superchargers batsmen were not busy scoring runs. They gradually moved towards their goal of winning by playing firmly.

David Wiese (13) and Adam Hose (4) were dismissed quickly and returned to the dressing room, but it did not affect the victory of the Northern Superchargers. In the end, they lost only 4 wickets and reached the port of victory in 91 balls. Ish Sodhi picked up 2 wickets for just 14 runs for Welsh Fire. Matthew Critchley also took 1 wicket.

After winning this match, Northern Superchargers climbed to 6th place in the points table. On the other hand, Welsh Fire is currently at the bottom of the points table after losing seven matches in a row.

Welsh Fire vs Northern Superchargers Scoreboard

Welsh Fire – 114/4 (100)

Northern Superchargers – 116/4 (91)

Result – Northern Superchargers won by 6 wickets

Player of the match – Adam Lyth

Welsh Fire vs Northern Superchargers Playing XIs