{"id":336696,"date":"2025-08-11T21:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336696\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T21:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:16:12","slug":"the-hundred-manchester-originals-beat-london-spirit-to-earn-first-win-of-2025-mens-tournament-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336696\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred: Manchester Originals beat London Spirit to earn first win of 2025 men&#8217;s tournament | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Originals earned their first win of The Hundred men&#8217;s tournament at the third attempt as they beat London Spirit by 10 runs at Emirates Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>England stars Jos Buttler and Josh Tongue impressed for the hosts, the former white-ball captain cracking 46 from 37 balls as Originals posted 163-6 batting first, before Tongue claimed 3-29 in Spirit&#8217;s reply.<\/p>\n<p>Australian opener David Warner smashed 71 off 51 at the top of the order for the London outfit, sharing in a 75-run partnership for the opening wicket with Kane Williamson (19).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skysports-david-warner-hundred_6988492.jpg\" alt=\"The Hundred: Jamie Smith hammers shot right into batting partner David Warner!\"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <video id=\"id_c5770e33-eee7-4dbf-bc2d-e109d997e688\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" class=\"video-js sdc-site-video__tag\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              London Spirit&#8217;s Jamie Smith hammered his shot right into his batting partner David Warner!<\/p>\n<p>Tongue ended Williamson&#8217;s tortured 20-ball stay in the middle and later returned to claim the key scalp of Warner, as well as Sean Dickson (2) in the space of four balls as Spirit&#8217;s chase subsided.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton Turner (13 off 7) and Jamie Overton (19 off 7) struck a few lusty blows late on, but Originals comfortably held on for their opening win of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Phil Salt (31 off 20), Ben McKinney (29 off 12) and Heinrich Klaasen (24 off 17) also impressed with the bat for Originals, while England Ashes pace hopefuls Overton (2-26) and Olly Stone (2-27) each claimed a couple of wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/skysports-mark-chapman-cricket_6988451.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Chapman \"  aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              <video id=\"id_90349d09-5f63-4999-9e8c-f9dd01643608\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" class=\"video-js sdc-site-video__tag\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>              London Spirit captain Kane Williamson took a brilliant diving catch to dismiss Manchester Originals Mark Chapman. <\/p>\n<p>How do matches work?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One hundred balls a side, the team with the most runs wins. It is as simple as that.<\/li>\n<li>Five bowlers can bowl up to 20 balls in an innings, including five or 10 in a row.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The powerplay is for the first 25 balls of an innings, with only two fielders allowed outside the 30-yard circle.<\/li>\n<li>A 25-ball-a-side game is the minimum length that can be played in the event of wet weather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s next?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Originals<\/strong> are next in action on Wednesday against <strong>Welsh Fire<\/strong> (6.30pm start) as part of a four-match day live on Sky Sports, with <strong>Southern Brave<\/strong> first facing <strong>Northern Superchargers<\/strong> (3pm start) in the men&#8217;s comp.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spirit<\/strong>, meanwhile, will look to get back to winning ways when they take on <strong>Trent Rockets<\/strong> (6.30pm start) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Before all of that though, on Tuesday, <strong>Birmingham Phoenix<\/strong> host <strong>Oval Invincibles<\/strong>, with the men&#8217;s sides in action from 6.30pm, Phoenix looking to claim their first win of the season at the third attempt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch every match across the women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s competitions live on Sky Sports from August 5-31.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester Originals earned their first win of The Hundred men&#8217;s tournament at the third attempt as they beat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115012212398840525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336696","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=336696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}