The Hundred: Manchester Originals v Southern Brave, Old Trafford
Brave chase 96 with 11 balls to spare to win by six wickets
Originals 95-8: Smale 40* (34); Bell 3-28
Brave 96-4: Wolvaardt 42* (37), Wyatt-Hodge 32 (27)
South Africa captain Wolvaardt stars against her former team
Originals v Brave in men's competition starts at 18:30 BST
Shachi Pai
Former Lancashire batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Without Seren Smale, the home side are nowhere. She played an anchoring role and knew exactly where she was getting her boundaries from.
Southern Brave gave nothing for them to work with.
A two to finish it, Smale heaves it out to mid-wicket and the Originals batters hurry the runs through.
A partnership of 29 from 26 balls to end the innings, easily the highest of the innings.
Seren Smale finishes with 40 from 34 balls, with Dani Gregory on eight from 12.
Meanwhile Lauren Bell is the pick of the bowlers, ending with figures of 3-28 from her 20 deliveries.
Originals 93-8
Woops.
The penultimate delivery of the innings and Dani Gregory balloons the ball in the air behind the bowler.
It should be a simple catch for Mady Villiers coming in from long-on, but she perhaps lets her eye off it and spills the catch.
Gregory takes a single to put Seren Smale on strike for the final ball.
Clubbed out to mid-wicket!
A bouncer from Lauren Bell and Seren Smale manages to get on top of it, whacking the ball over the ropes for four.
Dani Gregory jams her bat down on Sophie Devine's last delivery and runs a quick single to get Seren Smale back on strike for Lauren Bell's last set.
13 needed to make triple figures, meanwhile Devine closes with figures of 0-17 from her 20 balls.
Shachi Pai
Former Lancashire batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
What a great shot from Seren Smale. She creates room and moves that leg out the way. A very good 31 in a low-scoring innings from her.
There's a four!
Seren Smale cracks Sophie Devine past mid-on for her third boundary.
Still no boundaries for Originals, just five more singles.
Mady Villiers finishes with figures of 2-19, a good day for her.
Shachi Pai
Former Lancashire batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Originals need to get as close to 100 as they can. They need some kind of scoreboard pressure. Getting to three figures does make a huge difference psychologically.
The number of dot balls is where Brave have done so well to create pressure.
Four singles off Georgia Adams' second set.
Originals are in serious danger of not making 100.
Tilly Corteen-Coleman to bowl her last set.
Seren Smale has a bit of swipe at her, mis-hitting a shot out to long-off and running a single.
That's the spinner finished with figures of 1-12 from 20 balls - excellent stuff from the 17-year-old.
Shachi Pai
Former Lancashire batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Smale needs to think about how she can be there at the 100 balls. This debrief with the coaches will be really beneficial.
It will be interesting to see how Seren has been told take on Georgia Adams.
Dani Gregory next out the hutch - she's played in eight Hundred matches prior to today but only batted once, scoring one run.
She doubles that total immediately, turning the ball fine and running the single.
Shachi Pai
Former Lancashire batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
Ecclestone was wanting to go big. That is really clever from Georgia Adams. She knows that is Sophie's natural shot.
Brilliant by Brave and the captain.
Ecclestone b Adams 3 (Ori 66-8)
Another one down!
Sophie Ecclestone is capable of some big-hitting, but she can't get hold of Georgia Adams' delivery as she attempts to heave into the leg side.
The ball is a full one and slips under Ecclestone's bat to her stumps.
Manchester Originals have managed to avoid the lowest total by a women's team in The Hundred, that was Birmingham Phoenix's 54 against Northern Superchargers in 2024.
However, they need to get to 81 to make sure they don't record the lowest first-innings total - that unwanted record is held jointly by Oval Invincibles, against Welsh Fire in 2023, and London Spirit the year before against Invincibles.
Jake Lintott
Ex-Southern Brave bowler on BBC Two
Originals just haven't found a method that is working on this pitch. You have to be adaptable on the pitch and work out what a good total is. That also comes from batters communicating off the pitch.
Reverse swept for four!
A second boundary for Seren Smale, whipping Chloe Tyron to the ropes.
A further single takes the Originals batter to 18 from 18 balls.
Sophie Ecclestone in at nine - that's lower than she bats a lot of the time for England.
Bell sends down a wide - the only blot on her copybook today is that she's bowled a few - and the follow-up is a dot ball.
Morris c & b Bell 1 (Ori 54-7)
A third wicket for Lauren Bell!
She picks it up with the penultimate ball of her set, as Fi Morris clips the ball in the air back into the bowler.
| Batter | Runs | Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | Minutes | Strike Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mooney,caught Wyatt-Hodge, bowled Villiers Mooney, caught Wyatt-Hodge, bowled Villiers | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 16.67 |
K Bryce,bowled Bell K Bryce, bowled Bell | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0.00 |
Kerr,caught Tryon, bowled Bell Kerr, caught Tryon, bowled Bell | 14 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 100.00 |
Jones,caught and bowled Villiers Jones, caught and bowled Villiers | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 87.50 |
Dottin,bowled Corteen-Coleman Dottin, bowled Corteen-Coleman | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 100.00 |
Smale,not out Smale, not out | 40 | 34 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 43 | 117.65 |
Monaghan,run out Wyatt-Hodge Monaghan, run out Wyatt-Hodge | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 125.00 |
F Morris,caught and bowled Bell F Morris, caught and bowled Bell | 1 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 14.29 |
Ecclestone,bowled Adams Ecclestone, bowled Adams | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 60.00 |
Gregory,not out Gregory, not out | 8 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 66.67 |
Extras, no balls 0, wides 6, byes 0, leg byes 2, total 8 Extras, no balls 0, wides 6, byes 0, leg byes 2, total 8 | |||||||
Total,95 for 8 100 balls Total,95 for 8 100 balls |
| Bowler | Balls | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Dots | No balls | Wides | 4s | 6s | Economy rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bell | 20 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 8.40 |
Devine | 20 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5.10 |
Villiers | 20 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5.70 |
Corteen-Coleman | 20 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3.60 |
Tryon | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5.40 |
Adams | 10 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.80 |
| Fall of wicket | Batter |
|---|---|
3 for 1 (3 balls) | K Bryce |
10 for 2 (12 balls) | Mooney |
23 for 3 (25 balls) | Kerr |
32 for 4 (34 balls) | Dottin |
39 for 5 (41 balls) | Jones |
47 for 6 (53 balls) | Monaghan |
54 for 7 (64 balls) | F Morris |
66 for 8 (74 balls) | Ecclestone |
| Batter | Runs | Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | Minutes | Strike Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bouchier,caught Ecclestone, bowled Dottin Bouchier, caught Ecclestone, bowled Dottin | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 75.00 |
Wyatt-Hodge,bowled Ecclestone Wyatt-Hodge, bowled Ecclestone | 32 | 27 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 33 | 118.52 |
Wolvaardt,not out Wolvaardt, not out | 42 | 37 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 51 | 113.51 |
Devine,caught Kerr, bowled Gregory Devine, caught Kerr, bowled Gregory | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.00 |
Kemp,caught Ecclestone, bowled Kerr Kemp, caught Ecclestone, bowled Kerr | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 70.00 |
Tryon,not out Tryon, not out | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 100.00 |
Extras, no balls 0, wides 3, byes 0, leg byes 1, total 4 Extras, no balls 0, wides 3, byes 0, leg byes 1, total 4 | |||||||
Total,96 for 4 89 balls Total,96 for 4 89 balls |
| Bowler | Balls | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Dots | No balls | Wides | 4s | 6s | Economy rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gaur | 15 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7.20 |
Dottin | 19 | 0 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6.94 |
Ecclestone | 20 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7.20 |
Kerr | 20 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6.00 |
Gregory | 15 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.40 |
| Fall of wicket | Batter |
|---|---|
11 for 1 (14 balls) | Bouchier |
59 for 2 (50 balls) | Wyatt-Hodge |
64 for 3 (54 balls) | Devine |
80 for 4 (77 balls) | Kemp |
