{"id":321250,"date":"2025-08-06T01:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321250\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T01:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:20:14","slug":"the-hundred-grace-harris-powers-defending-champions-london-spirit-to-win-over-oval-invincibles-in-first-womens-match-of-2025-cricket-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321250\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Grace Harris powers defending champions London Spirit to win over Oval Invincibles in first women’s match of 2025 | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"

London Spirit Women began their defence of the Hundred title with a 17-run victory over two-time champions Oval Invincibles in a London derby at Lord’s as Grace Harris marginally outshone fellow Australian Meg Lanning.<\/p>\n

Harris (89no off 42 balls) shared a Spirit-record stand of 100 from 52 balls with Cordelia Griffith (50 off 29) – the latter notching her maiden Hundred fifty – as the hosts carded 176-5, the second-highest score in the women’s competition.<\/p>\n

Harris was dropped on 22 by Ryana MacDonald-Gay at long-off and punished Invincibles for that error, nailing six sixes – including back-to-back maximums off spinner Sophia Smale – and seven fours.<\/p>\n

\n Score summary – London Spirit vs Oval Invincibles\n <\/p>\n

London Spirit 176-5 from 100 balls:<\/b> Grace Harris (89no off 42 balls), Cordelia Griffith (50 off 29); Marizanne Kapp (2-23 from 20 balls); Tash Farrant (2-39 from 20 balls)<\/p>\n

Oval Invincibles 159-4 from 100 balls:<\/b> Meg Lanning (85 off 51 balls); Marizanne Kapp (33 off 21); Issy Wong (2-26 from 20 balls); Tara Norris (1-3 from 10 balls)<\/p>\n

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\"HUNDRED\"<\/p>\n

Marizanne Kapp picked up the first wicket in the 2025 edition of The Hundred, trapping Spirit’s Georgia Redmayne lbw for a duck<\/p>\n

Beginning a daunting chase, Invincibles saw skipper Lauren Winfield-Hill (0) pinned lbw second ball by Tara Norris and, bar a breezy 22 off 13 balls from Alice Capsey, they struggled to get going early on.<\/p>\n

However, Lanning (85 off 51), who had been scratchy to start, then ignited with a barrage of boundaries and when she went six, four, four, six off Eva Gray to leave the requirement 27 from 10 balls, the visitors had real hope.<\/p>\n

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\"MEG\"<\/p>\n

Meg Lanning’s dismissal to Issy Wong ended Invincibles’ hopes of beating Spirit at Lord’s. <\/p>\n

But Lanning then holed out at deep midwicket off Issy Wong (2-26) three balls later and Invincibles ended on 159-4 with Spirit skipper Charlie Dean conceding just three of the 21 runs needed from the final five deliveries.<\/p>\n

Wong earlier bowled Marizanne Kapp (33 off 21), while leg-spinner Sarah Glenn – looking to force her way back into the England set-up ahead of this autumn’s World Cup in India – trapped Capsey lbw.<\/p>\n

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\"REDFERN\"<\/p>\n

Play between Spirit and Invincibles had to be momentarily stopped after umpire Sue Redfern was struck by the ball<\/p>\n

What’s next?<\/p>\n

Invincibles <\/strong>will play Manchester Originals <\/strong>on Saturday at The Kia Oval (11am), with Spirit <\/strong>next in action later the same day as they head to Cardiff to take on Welsh Fire (2.30pm).<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s Hundred double header is between Manchester Originals and Southern Brave at Emirates Old Trafford<\/strong> (women’s match at 3pm, men’s at 6.30pm)<\/p>\n

Watch every match from The Hundred live on Sky Sports Cricket up to and including the finals at Lord’s on Sunday August 31.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London Spirit Women began their defence of the Hundred title with a 17-run victory over two-time champions Oval…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-321250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114979197905032850","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}