| The Hundred girls’s competitors, Lord’s |
| London Spirit 135-7 (100 balls): Kerr 60 (32), Gibson 24 (17); Higham 1-14 |
| Northern Superchargers 136-6 (99 balls): Litchfield 38 (34), Rodrigues 30 (20); Glenn 3-19, Kerr 2-24 |
| Superchargers win by gained by 4 wickets |
| Scorecard. Table. |
Northern Superchargers sealed their place within the knockout levels of The Hundred with a nervy four-wicket win over London Spirit, who’re eradicated.
Kate Cross hit the successful runs with the penultimate ball of the match, however solely after Tara Norris dropped a routine catch fielding at cowl.
Amelia Kerr earlier hit a punchy 60 from 32 balls to assist Spirit hit 135-7.
The win additionally sends Southern Brave by means of to the knockouts and eliminates Manchester Originals.
What else do you want to know?
- Phoebe Litchfield top-scored for Superchargers with 38 from 34 balls and turns into the main run-scorer within the girls’s competitors, with 225 runs in six innings.
- Opener Jemimah Rodrigues additionally hit a full of life 30 from 20 balls together with 5 fours to get the Superchargers reply off to a quick begin.
- Superchargers Wicketkeeper Bess Heath impressed on the day she earned her first England name up, displaying some fantastic glovework to stump Spirit opener Niamh Holland for 2, earlier than hitting a sprightly 18 from eight with the bat.
- Kerr dominated the Spirit innings, scoring almost half their complete and hitting extra boundaries than the remainder of the workforce mixed.
- Welsh Fire now want only one extra level from their last two matches to be part of Superchargers and Brave within the knockouts, and remove Trent Rockets and defending champions Oval Invincibles.
‘It’s nice to be within the Superchargers camp’ – what they stated
Northern Superchargers’ Kate Cross on Sky Sports: “Yeah [I thought I was gone] – 9 occasions out of 10 you are catching that. So I felt a bit for Tara as a result of that meant that the Spirit cannot qualify and you would see how disenchanted she was.
“But we’re simply discovering methods to win on the minute. So it is nice to be within the Superchargers camp.”
Match Hero Phoebe Litchfield: “I’m so glad we simply acquired it completed ultimately. Georgia Wareham, Jemimah [Rodrigues] on the high after which Kate Cross on the finish, it was positively a workforce win.
“It has been superior to rating runs and win video games. I’ve liked my time at Superchargers. To get into the knockouts is admittedly thrilling and I’m actually eager to get again down to London and tackle whoever we tackle.”
You can watch Hundred matches on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer each Wednesday and Saturday all through the competitors, alongside each finals on Sunday, 27 August. More details.
