{"id":90146,"date":"2025-08-24T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90146\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T19:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:38:10","slug":"the-hundred-manchester-originals-beaten-as-play-off-chances-dented-and-trent-rockets-hopes-stay-alive-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90146\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Manchester Originals beaten as play-off chances dented and Trent Rockets’ hopes stay alive | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester Originals’ Hundred play-off hopes took a huge dent as they slumped to a 16-run defeat to Birmingham Phoenix – a result that keeps Trent Rockets in the play-off picture.<\/p>\n

Beth Mooney’s side crumbled to 95 all out in a chase of 112 on a tricky Emirates Old Trafford pitch amid a blizzard of loose strokes and four run outs – they were 14-4 after 21 balls – and have slipped to fourth in the standings, behind London Spirit on net run-rate.<\/p>\n

Originals can still qualify for the top three but even a win over second-placed Northern Superchargers in their final group game at Headingley on Tuesday may not be enough.<\/p>\n

\n Score summary – Birmingham Phoenix beat Manchester Originals by 16 runs\n <\/p>\n

Birmingham Phoenix 111-3 from 100 balls: Ellyse Perry (55no off 48 balls), Sterre Kalis (43no off 39); Deandra Dottin (1-4 from 10 balls), Mahika Gaur (1-5 from 15), Sophie Ecclestone (1-21 from 20)<\/p>\n

Manchester Originals 95 all out from 100 balls: Seren Smale (29 off 34 balls); Megan Schutt (3-14 from 20 balls), Phoebe Brett (1-11 from 20), Hannah Baker (1-13 from 15)<\/p>\n

Superchargers, Spirit and Trent Rockets are also in the hunt for a place in the eliminator, with table toppers Southern Brave having already guaranteed a spot in the final after seven wins rom seven.<\/p>\n

Originals looked favourites to beat Phoenix at halfway after limiting their opponents to 111-3, with Mahika Gaur (1-5), Deandra Dottin (1-4) and Sophie Ecclestone (1-21) all impressing.<\/p>\n

Gaur conceded just three runs and took one wicket while bowling 10 balls in a row at the start of the game.<\/p>\n

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\"Seren<\/p>\n

Originals’ Seren Smale hit a boundary with an extremely unusual shot at Emirates Old Trafford<\/p>\n

Ellyse Perry (55no off 48) and Sterre Kalis (43no off 39) rallied Phoenix from 17-3 after 27 balls with an unbroken stand of 94 from 73 and that proved crucial as Originals wilted in response.<\/p>\n

None of the top four made double figures with Mooney and Kathryn Bryce out for ducks – Mooney falling to Megan Schutt after Bryce was needlessly run out – while top-scorer Seren Smale (29 off 34) was caught ramping the impressive Schutt (3-14) as the Phoenix bowler bagged two wickets in as many balls.<\/p>\n

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\"Megan<\/p>\n

Australia’s Megan Schutt took two wickets in two balls for Phoenix in the win over Originals<\/p>\n

Rockets beat Fire as Gardner stars in Cardiff<\/p>\n

Earlier on in Cardiff, Rockets skipper Ash Gardner shone with bat and ball in her side’s 23-run win over Welsh Fire.<\/p>\n

The Australian all-rounder hit 36 from 26 balls before falling to a bouncer from spinner Hayley Matthews as Rockets posted 145-6 – Nat Sciver-Brunt (38 off 27) and Bryony Smith (38 off 27) also starred with the blade.<\/p>\n

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Watch as Rockets skipper Ash Gardner was out to a bouncer… from spinner Hayley Matthews!<\/p>\n

Gardner then bagged the key wickets of Sophia Dunkley (26) and Matthews (18) to help restrict Fire to 122-9, with compatriot and fellow spinner Alana King striking three times.<\/p>\n

Rockets now need Originals and Spirit to lose their final group matches and then beat Phoenix on Wednesday to stand a chance of reaching the play-offs.<\/p>\n

Fire were already out of top-three contention and will now hope to avoid the wooden spoon – although they will have to defeat Brave on Thursday afternoon to have any hope of that.<\/p>\n

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\"Ball<\/p>\n

There was a brief pause during The Hundred game between Fire and Rockets as the ball went missing under the covers! <\/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 coming up on Monday?<\/p>\n

Oval Invincibles welcome London Spirit to The Kia Oval with the the women’s match under way from 3pm and the men’s getting going at 6.30pm, live on Sky Sports Cricket.<\/p>\n

Watch every match across the women’s and men’s competitions in The Hundred live on Sky Sports until August 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester Originals’ Hundred play-off hopes took a huge dent as they slumped to a 16-run defeat to Birmingham…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-90146","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\/90146","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=90146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}