The Hundred men’s competition, Edgbaston<\/p>\n
MI London 157-6 (100 balls): Pooran 36 (21); Ahmed 2-7<\/p>\n
Birmingham Phoenix 155-7 (100 balls): Weatherley 42 (31); Gleeson 2-29<\/p>\n
MI London won by two runs<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>. Table<\/a><\/p>\n MI London were eliminated from The Hundred despite posting a hard-fought two-run victory against Birmingham Phoenix in their final group game at Edgbaston. <\/p>\n Having won the previous three men’s titles in the guise of Oval Invincibles, MI needed to win by 59 or more runs to leapfrog third-placed Sunrisers Leeds on net run-rate and reach the Eliminator.<\/p>\n Instead, they finished fourth, level on points with second-placed Manchester Super Giants and Sunrisers, who will face each other in the Eliminator at The Oval on Friday, with the winner taking on table-toppers Trent Rockets in Sunday’s final at Lord’s.<\/p>\n After setting Phoenix a target of 158, Richard Gleeson struck twice early for MI to boost their hopes of restricting their opponents to below the required 98. <\/p>\n But Phoenix fought back from 23-3 through Joe Weatherley and Sean Dickson as the duo all but extinguished the visitors’ chances. <\/p>\n When captain Sam Curran finally trapped Dickson lbw for 23, MI needed to take six wickets for 18 runs to keep their Eliminator dream alive.<\/p>\n That dream was mathematically over after 66 balls of the innings when Phoenix reached 99-4, confirming the three-time champions’ elimination.<\/p>\n Weatherley fell for 42 from 31 balls at 114-6, but Jordan Thompson and Rehan Ahmed took the chase to the final ball, where Trent Boult’s excellent death bowling wrapped up the campaign with a narrow win. <\/p>\n Earlier, Nicholas Pooran led the way with 36 from 21 balls for MI who batted first after losing the toss, while Jason Roy made 26 and James Vince struck a brisk 22 from 12 deliveries as the visitors kept the score ticking despite losing regular wickets.<\/p>\n They finished strongly with Ollie Sykes’ 23 not out and Tom Curran’s unbeaten 17 from nine balls helping them reach 157-6.<\/p>\n Phoenix finished bottom of the table with only one win from eight matches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hundred men’s competition, Edgbaston MI London 157-6 (100 balls): Pooran 36 (21); Ahmed 2-7 Birmingham Phoenix 155-7…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736073","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\/736073","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=736073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}