Alice Capsey whacked her second half-century in this year’s edition of The Hundred as Oval Invincibles eased to a 40-run victory over winless Welsh Fire.<\/p>\n
Capsey’s 55 off 34 balls featured seven fours and one six as she provided the backbone of the Invincibles’ imposing total of 150-6.<\/p>\n
It was the 21-year-old’s second fifty in as many matches following a lean run which had seen her score just one half-century in her past 32 T20 or Hundred innings.<\/p>\n
Capsey has also struggled in England colours this summer with five single-figure scores in six T20 international innings, but this was another outing brimming with confident strokeplay.<\/p>\n
It was almost a shock when Capsey was out – the crowd stunned when she was dismissed caught and bowled by Shabnim Ismail, who bagged 2-31.<\/p>\n
Marizanne Kapp took over where Capsey left off and boosted the total with an unbeaten 47 off 32 balls while Hayley Matthews bowled tightly to collect 2-18.<\/p>\n
Set the highest chase in the women’s tournament at The Oval – and the fourth highest overall – Fire lost the dangerous Matthews early on for 12.<\/p>\n
Sophia Dunkley carried the charge and looked well poised to make a fist of it with a knock of 56 off 41 balls.<\/p>\n
But when she chipped Sophia Smale into the hands of Phoebe Franklin at long-off with the score on 90-6 and 29 balls Fire’s hopes were effectively extinguished.<\/p>\n
Capsey also impressed with the ball, finishing with 2-16, as Fire were bowled out for 111 with Smale the pick of the attack after she snaffled 3-13.<\/p>\n
Invincibles’ win lifts them up a place to fourth spot, level on eight points with fifth-placed Manchester Originals, while Fire are bottom on zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alice Capsey whacked her second half-century in this year’s edition of The Hundred as Oval Invincibles eased to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-73445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}