The Hundred men’s competition, The Oval<\/p>\n
MI London 164-5 (100 balls): Jacks 65 (44); Overton 3-30<\/p>\n
London Spirit 165-3 (89 balls): Pretorius 64 (28); Gleeson 1-23<\/p>\n
London Spirit won by seven wickets<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>. Table<\/a><\/p>\n Lhuan-dre Pretorius recovered from a heavy collision in the field to hit 64 as London Spirit beat MI London by seven wickets for their first win in this season’s Hundred.<\/p>\n The South African and James Coles ran into one another chasing a catch late in the first innings, in which reach MI London reached 164-5.<\/p>\n Pretorius left the field after the incident but was fit to open the Spirit innings and hit three fours and seven sixes in his 28-ball innings, which started with a 63-run partnership with Jonny Bairstow (23).<\/p>\n The 20-year-old added a further 38 with Liam Livingstone (16) before he was caught by Sherfane Rutherford off the bowling of Richard Gleeson.<\/p>\n James Rew (19) and Dewald Brevis (37 from 18) finished the job off for Spirit, who won with 11 balls to spare.<\/p>\n MI London had started well after being put into bat, with Will Jacks (65) and James Vince (26) putting on a 91-run opening partnership.<\/p>\n However both openers and Nicholas Pooran fell in the space of eight balls as the home side slipped to 100-3.<\/p>\n Both Jacks and Pooran were dismissed by Jamie Overton, who later removed Jason Roy (13) for figures of 3-30.<\/p>\n Rutherford accelerated at the close for MI, striking a 19-ball 41 that featured four sixes before he was caught by Coles off Andrew Tye from the last ball of the innings.<\/p>\n Spirit move into sixth, above Southern Brave and Birmingham Phoenix, after claiming their first win in three matches, while MI London sit in fourth with two wins and two defeats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hundred men’s competition, The Oval MI London 164-5 (100 balls): Jacks 65 (44); Overton 3-30 London Spirit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718194","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\/718194","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=718194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}