{"id":76985,"date":"2025-08-19T04:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76985\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:45:08","slug":"the-hundred-southern-brave-dominate-invincibles-to-maintain-flawless-start-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/76985\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Southern Brave dominate Invincibles to maintain flawless start | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Southern Brave closed out a dominant 89-run victory over Oval Invincibles at the Utilita Bowl to extend their 100 per cent record in the women’s Hundred to five matches and move them top of the table.<\/p>\n

Having been put into bat, Brave soon set about the Invincibles’ attack, with openers Maia Bouchier (34) and Danni Wyatt-Hodge (26) taking the score on to 81-2 off 55 balls.<\/p>\n

Laura Wolvaardt added a swift 36, including five boundaries, and Freya Kemp made 24 off just 11 balls – smashing two sixes – as the Brave reached 161-6. Phoebe Franklin claimed two wickets from her 20 deliveries.<\/p>\n

Aiming for what would have been the highest run chase in the women’s Hundred, the Invincibles were soon two batters down.<\/p>\n

Sophie Devine bowled Meg Lanning (two) and then also had captain Lauren Winfield-Hill (10) caught by Georgia Adams at mid-off.<\/p>\n

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\n Danni Wyatt-Hodge’s opening partnership alongside Maia Bouchier set the Invincibles an unreachable target for victory<\/p>\n

Alice Capsey (seven) edged behind from Lauren Bell to leave the Invincibles in deep trouble at 28-3 – with Paige Scholfield swiftly following next ball for a golden duck.<\/p>\n

Brave continued to take regular wickets as the Invincibles collapsed to 72 all out from 83 balls, slipping to the heaviest defeat in the women’s tournament.<\/p>\n

Australian Amanda-Jade Wellington finished unbeaten on a run-a-ball 18, while Mady Villiers claimed three wickets.<\/p>\n

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Watch Sophie Devine get out Meg Lanning to deliver the ‘key wicket of this game’ for Southern Brave<\/p>\n

How do matches work?One hundred balls a side, the team with the most runs wins. It is as simple as that.Five bowlers can bowl up to 20 balls in an innings, including five or 10 in a row.The traditional six-ball overs seen in other forms of cricket are not used in The Hundred, with 10 balls bowled before a change of ends.The powerplay is for the first 25 balls of an innings, with only two fielders allowed outside the 30-yard circle.A 25-ball-a-side game is the minimum length that can be played in the event of wet weather.What’s next?<\/p>\n

The Hundred continues on Tuesday with Trent Rockets hosting the Manchester Originals in a women’s and men’s double-header – at 3pm and 6.30pm – live on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

Watch every match across the women’s and men’s competitions live on Sky Sports from August 5-31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southern Brave closed out a dominant 89-run victory over Oval Invincibles at the Utilita Bowl to extend their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-76985","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\/76985","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=76985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}