Summary

  • The Hundred: Oval Invincibles v Trent Rockets men, The Kia Oval

  • Invincibles chase 172 to win by six wickets with 11 balls to spare

  • Hosts and defending champions needed 112 off 50 balls at halfway stage of innings

  • Invincibles 173-4 (89 balls): Cox 58* (32), S Curran 54 (24); Ahmed 2-25

  • Rockets 171-7: Root 76 (41); Rashid 2-19

  • Invincibles go four points clear at the top; Rockets remain second

Live Reporting

by Ffion Wynne & Mike Peter

  1. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The Hundred's El Clasico. The two most winning sides in the competition's history.

  2. Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    Today’s encounter between Oval Invincibles and Trent Rocket is not only first versus second in this year's table, it’s also a meeting between the two leading men’s Hundred sides in terms of wins across the competition’s history.

    Oval Invincibles have registered 26 wins with visitors Trent Rockets amassing 23 wins since the Hundred began in 2021.

  3. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    These two franchises have maintained their core players better than the rest and that is clearly a recipe for success.

  4. Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    Leading powerplay wicket takers in this year's Hundred:

    • 7 - Jason Behrendorff
    • 6 - Craig Overton
    • 4 - Matthew Potts, David Willey, Jacob Duffy

  5. Line-ups

    Oval Invincibles: Will Jacks, Tawanda Muyeye, Jordan Cox, Sam Curran, Sam Billings (c, wk), Donovan Ferreira, Tom Curran, Rashid Khan, Nathan Sowter, Saqib Mahmood, Jason Behrendorff

    Trent Rockets: Max Holden, Joe Root, Tom Banton, David Willey (c), Marcus Stoinis, Tom Moores (wk), Rehan Ahmed, Sam Hain, Sam Cook, Lockie Ferguson, George Linde

    One change for Invincibles with Mahmood replacing Jordan Clark, while the away side are unchanged from their win over Manchester Originals on Tuesday.

  6. Oval Invincibles win the toss and bowl

    Home skipper Sam Billings has won the toss and Oval Invincibles are going to have a bowl.

    They include seamers Saqib Mahmood, Jason Behrendorff and the Curran brothers (Sam and Tom), and also have spinners Rashid Khan and Nathan Sowter in their line-up.

  7. Hello there.

    Ready for some top of the table action?

    Back-to-back champions Oval Invincibles lead the men's Hundred table from Trent Rockets by net run-rate - they've both won four and lost one of their five games.

    They face off in south London tonight, with the winners putting themselves on the brink of qualification for the knock-out stages.

    Let's crack on...