The Hundred women’s competition, Headingley<\/p>\n
Sunrisers Leeds 142-4 (100 balls): Sutherland 35 (24); Villiers 1-6<\/p>\n
Manchester Super Giants 147-6 (96 balls): Mandhana 88* (50); Baker 1-9<\/p>\n
Manchester Super Giants won by four wickets<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>. Table<\/a><\/p>\n Smriti Mandhana made a masterful unbeaten 88 off 50 balls as she guided Manchester Super Giants to a four-wicket win over Sunrisers Leeds which maintained their unbeaten start to The Hundred.<\/p>\n The India opener’s sixth half-century in the history of the tournament was her top score and included seven fours and four sixes.<\/p>\n Mandhana’s unflappable temperament at Headingley was the key as as the stylish left-hander skilfully paced a chase of 143 despite wickets falling around her.<\/p>\n It was a testament to the quality of the knock that Super Giants skipper Meg Lanning, who made 24, was the only other player into double figures.<\/p>\n Mandhana said the key to her innings was “just committing to the shot” and “not playing anything half-heartedly”.<\/p>\n “If you win matches like this, it really puts us in a good place,” she told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n “In franchise cricket, you have to keep your head down and keep going taking the good days with bad days.”<\/p>\n Mandhana had kept the Super Giants in touch with the run rate throughout their reply before she went for the jugular with 16 needed off the last 10 balls.<\/p>\n The 30-year-old slog-swept Jess Jonassen for six – Darcey Carter allowing the ball to go through her grasp at deep mid-wicket – before pumping the Aussie spinner down the ground and over the ropes again.<\/p>\n Mandhana then sealed the win in style off the first ball of the final set when she dispatched Annabel Sutherland back over her head for six.<\/p>\n Earlier, Sutherland had top scored for Sunrisers with a controlled 35 off 24 balls, striking four fours, in their total of 142-4.<\/p>\n Bryony Smith and Phoebe Litchfield also chipped in with 26 and 31 respectively while Dani Gibson gave the innings late impetus as she clubbed 18 off just six balls.<\/p>\n Grace Ballinger was the most economical of the Super Giants bowlers as her 20 wicketless balls cost only 17 runs.<\/p>\n However, spinner Sophie Ecclestone had a rare off day as her allocation went for 30, while fellow England international Ryana MacDonald-Gay went for six runs more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hundred women’s competition, Headingley Sunrisers Leeds 142-4 (100 balls): Sutherland 35 (24); Villiers 1-6 Manchester Super Giants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}