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
The plan worked. It has been Brave's powerplay.
Melie Kerr was looking dangerous and powerful and now Originals are in all sorts of trouble.
Kerr c Tryon b Bell 14 (Ori 23-3)
A wicket from the last ball of the powerplay!
Lauren Bell has her second scalp and it's another key Originals batter in Melie Kerr.
The New Zealand batter goes for an elaborate paddle and lifts the ball straight to Chloe Tryon at short fine leg.
Catching practice for the South African, she's not dropping that.
Shachi Pai
Former Lancashire batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
You can see that Brave have a very clear plan against Melie Kerr. The fielders back of square and backwards of point are very tight.
But Kerr is finding the gaps, brilliant from her.
Nicely done by Melie Kerr, easing Lauren Bell's second delivery down to the boundary at backward point.
Her first boundary.
Shachi Pai
Former Lancashire batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
There looks to be a bit of movement on this pitch for the bowlers, if you can set the right pitch that is. That's what Brave are trying to do against Melie Kerr.
Melie Kerr, number two in the world all-rounder rankings for T20s, has a rebuilding job on her hands.
She takes three runs off Sophie Devine's second set.
Shachi Pai
Former Lancashire batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra
What a big wicket! Mooney didn't quite get going. A fantastic low-diving catch from Danni Wyatt-Hodge. She never misses those, she is a brilliant fielder.
New batter Eve Jones gets off the mark straight away with a two turned round the corner.
She then adds a single out to deep square.
Mooney c Wyatt-Hodge b Villiers 1 (Ori 12-2)
Here's the spin of Mady Villiers... and she gets a wicket with her second ball!
It's a big one too, world number one batter and Originals captain Beth Mooney.
The Australian cuts to Danni Wyatt-Hodge at point, who takes the catch just above the ground while falling to her right.
Originals in early trouble.
Sophie Devine takes the second set for Southern Brave, bowling to her international team-mate Melie Kerr.
Just two singles from the five deliveries.
New Zealand's Melie Kerr walks out at number three, and gets four straight away, cutting to the ropes at backward point.
Bell sends down an off side wide and then finishes her eight-ball set with a dot delivery.
Bryce b Bell 0 (Ori 3-1)
Second-ball duck for Kathryn Bryce!
Lauren Bell starts with two leg side wides before thudding a delivery into the pads of Beth Mooney - nothing from the umpire and the Australian runs a leg bye.
Bryce misses her first two deliveries - the first outside off, the second nipping in and clattering the stumps.
A big early breakthrough for Southern Brave.
The teams are out and England's opening bowler Lauren Bell will also take the ball for Southern Brave.
She'll bowl to Manchester Originals captain Beth Mooney, the number one ranked batter in international T20s.
Image source, Getty ImagesSouth Africa captain Laura Wolvaardt spent two seasons at Manchester Originals, but switches to Southern Brave for this campaign.
She'll be playing alongside compatriot Chloe Tryon (right) for the Southampton-based side.
Having lost in The Hundred's first two finals and won its third, Southern Brave endured a dramatic change in fortunes in 2024.
They finished bottom of the table with just one win from eight games.
Manchester Originals, who are yet to reach a final in the women's competition, ended their 2024 campaign in sixth with three victories.
Manchester Originals: Beth Mooney (c & wk), Kathryn Bryce, Melie Kerr, Deandra Dottin, Seren Smale, Eve Jones, Alice Monaghan, Sophie Ecclestone, Fi Morris, Danielle Gregory, Mahika Gaur.
Southern Brave: Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Maia Bouchier, Laura Wolvaardt, Sophie Devine, Freya Kemp, Chloe Tryon, Georgia Adams (c), Mady Villiers, Rhianna Southby (wk), Lauren Bell, Tilly Corteen-Coleman.
Southern Brave captain Georgia Adams has won the toss at Old Trafford and has chosen to have a bowl.
Her side features a superb top-order of Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Maia Bouchier, Laura Wolvaardt and Sophie Devine, and Brave will be confident of chasing any total the Originals set them.
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Today we travel to Old Trafford for a double-header between Manchester Originals and Southern Brave, starting with the women's contest at 15:00 BST.
Another day for big-hitting?
We'll soon find out...
| 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 |
