Birmingham Pheonix picked up an important win over the Oval Invincibles in Match 23 of the Hundred Males’s 2022 on the Kennington Oval in London. The victory pushed the Birmingham Pheonix to 3rd within the factors desk with 4 wins in six video games whereas Oval Invincibles are on the fifth place with three wins in six video games now.
Earlier within the sport, the Oval Invincibles opted to bowl first after profitable the toss and the Birmingham Pheonix suffered an early loss with the dismissal of in-form batter, Will Smeed, for a 13-ball 23. Miles Hammond adopted him quickly after hitting two sixes in his 17-run knock whereas the likes of Moeen Ali and Liam Livingstone caught collectively a harmful partnership for the third wicket.
Ali scored a 25-ball 42 comprising of 4 sixes at a strike price of 168 whereas Livingstone got here up with a 32-ball 45 hitting as many sixes as Ali had hit. Matthew Wade’s cameo in direction of the top gave the ending touches to the innings as Birmingham Phoenix bought to a aggressive rating of 166 or 6 of their innings. With the ball, it was Matt Milnes who picked up a three-wicket haul to be the choose of the bowlers whereas Sunil Narine but once more impressed with a cheap spell.
Tom Curran’s blistering knock goes in useless
In reply, Will Jacks and Riley Rossouw needed to stroll again to the dressing room rapidly whereas Jason Roy and Jordan Cox bought a small partnership going. Nevertheless, Henry Brookes bought the large fish, Roy, for 21 and the chase regarded bleak at 52 for 3. Sam Curran’s quickfire 20-ball 30 which included three sixes did introduced some hopes to the Oval Invincibles. Nevertheless, the equation bought harder and harder as soon as Cox and Curran have been eliminated in fast succession.
Tom Curran gave an actual scare for the Birmingham aspect with three sixes and two fours in his blistering knock of 30 off simply 12 balls. Nevertheless, the Oval Invincibles fell quick by ten runs because of new ball bowlers of the Birmingham aspect, Kane Richardson and Tom Helm, who bowled match-winning spells. Richardson bought the nod for the Participant of the Match for his 3 for 22 on the finish.
