Summary

  • The Hundred: London Spirit v Oval Invincibles, Lord's

  • Defending champions Invincibles chase down 81 with 31 balls to spare to win by six wickets

  • Spirit dismissed for 80 - second lowest score in men's competition

  • Rashid Khan and Sam Curran star in taking three wickets each

  • Wednesday's double header - Manchester Originals v Southern Brave at Emirates Old Trafford

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter & Sam Drury

  1. Which franchise league is most entertaining?

    Franchise league graphic

    While we wait for the teams to come back out, time to have a little ponder.

    The men's cricket world is awash with franchise leagues.

    There's the Indian Premier League (IPL), the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and the SA20.

    Australia's Big Bash is one of the originals, and there are others in the Caribbean (CPL), and United Arab Emirates (ILT20).

    Then there's The Hundred - the 100-ball outlier.

    That's to name just a few... but which is the best league?

    BBC Sport, with help from CricViz, looks at some key metrics to try to answer that very question.

  2. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Two

    It looked as though London Spirit were confused about the style they wanted to go with. That's not to take away from how good the Invincibles were.

    Invincibles have a core group of players and they have played like a team who know what each of their roles are. Khan is such a good potion to add into the mix as well.

  3. Lowest scores in the Men's Hundred

    Kieran Parmley
    Cricviz analyst

    • 75 - Birmingham Phoenix vs MO, 2022
    • 80 - London Spirit vs OI, Today
    • 83 - Northern Superchargers vs Birmingham Phoenix, 2024
    • 83 - Northern Superchargers vs Manchester Originals, 2023
    • 86-6 - Manchester Originals vs Welsh Fire, 2023

  4. Thanks Sam.

    Invincibles' game, surely.

    How fast could they conceivably race to their target?

  5. Invincibles need 81 to win

    Sam Drury
    BBC Sport cricket writer

    Women's defending champions London Spirit won the opening game of this double-header, men's holders Oval Invincibles are halfway to doing the same.

    It feels like a foregone conclusion but cricket has a funny way of making you look silly for making those kind of statements. Surely not this time though, right?

    To find out if Spirit can somehow defend 80, it's over to Mike Peter.

  6. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Two

    High class from the Invincibles. It is not a great looking batting card. Turner is the only player who played with any kind of intent with 21.

    That's a card you don't want to see.

  7. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    That completely foxed Gleeson. I used to bowl faster than that and I was a spinner!

    Spirit will be disappointed with that, there is nothing to work with.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Gleeson b S Curran 3 (Spirit 80 all out)

    Bowled 'im - with perhaps the slowest slower ball of the lot!

    Sam Curran's moonball does the trick again. Richard Gleeson saw the ball go up, couldn't resist having a swing but is in too much of a rush.

    He misses horribly, the ball plinks into off stump and Spirit are bowled out for 80 - the second-lowest score in The Hundred by a men's team.

  9. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    Sam Curran has so much variation in his bowling attack. He has the slower ball, the cutter, the knuckle ball. He is like a liquorice all sort coming down at you - you never know what you are going to get.

  10. Spirit 79-9

    Nearly all over.

    Richard Gleeson calls for a quick single, Tawanda Muyeye swoops in the covers and has a shy at the stumps.

    Had he hit, Dan Worrall was a long way short of his ground.

  11. Spirit 78-9

    Tom Curran sticks with the slower balls and neither Richard Gleeson or Dan Worrall can get hold of them.

    Four singles from the set, 10 balls to go and anything that involves batting the innings will be a bonus for Spirit from here.

  12. Kieran Parmley
    Cricviz analyst

    Sam Curran's wicket ball to Ashton Turner was clocked at just 47.7 mph.

    It's the slowest wicket-taking delivery by a pace bowler in men's Hundred history, beating a 48.6 mph delivery also bowled by Sam Curran to dismiss Zak Crawley in the 2023 edition.

  13. Spirit 76-9

    Record avoided!

    London Spirit go past the 75 made by Birmingham Phoenix against Manchester Originals. It's not much but it's just shows it could be (slightly) worse for the hosts.

  14. Spirit 74-9

    Dan Worrall just about gets through Rashid Khan's last three balls.

    A big googly first up hit him on the pad but it was doing too much.

    Some debut for Rashid, though. The leg-spinner ends with 3-11 from his 20 balls.

  15. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    Nothing is going right for the Spirit. Higgins tried the reverse and gets the middle of the bat on it but again, it finds the fielder.

    The Spirit's lowest score in the Hundred is 92 and they look on course to beat that record.

  16. wicket

    WICKET

    Higgins c T Curran b Rashid Khan 12 (Spirit 74-9)

    The (unwanted) record is still on.

    Ryan Higgins goes for the reverse and hits it straight to Tom Curran.

    Catch taken above his head and Rashid Khan has 3-11 - and three balls left to bowl.

  17. Spirit 74-8

    With 20 balls left in the innings, Rashid Khan is coming on to bowl his last five.

  18. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Two

    Another simple catch for Rashid Khan. Spirit are really battling.

    Wood was looking to take on the longer of the boundaries, down the slope but Khan manages to keep his eye on the ball in the sun.

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    Wood c Rashid Khan b S Curran 5 (p74-8)

    Sam Curran has his second.

    Luke Wood is the latest to go for London Spirit, picking out Rashid Khan at deep mid-wicket as he tries to clear the ropes.

    A third catch for Rashid Khan to go with his two wickets - and Spirit are still a run shy of the record low score...

  20. Spirit 73-7

    Runs! Four of them!

    They all count for London Spirit. Ryan Higgins drills Sam Curran through the covers to keep the home fans something to cheer.

    Four more. Finds the gap on the leg side this time and Spirit are now just a couple of runs shy of the lowest total in The Hundred men's competition.