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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n Liam Livingstone<\/a> was at his buccaneering best as Birmingham<\/a> Phoenix<\/a> claimed their first win of The Hundred this year, overcoming defending champions Oval Invincibles by four wickets.<\/p>\n Dropped from England\u2019s white-ball sides this year, Livingstone delivered a reminder of his enduring class with 69 not out off 27 balls at Edgbaston, including an astonishing takedown of Rashid Khan.<\/p>\n Livingstone thumped 26, including three of his five sixes, in Khan\u2019s final set, with the vaunted Afghanistan<\/a> leg-spinner\u2019s nought for 59 the worst figures ever recorded in the men\u2019s competition.<\/p>\n Saqib Mahmood took two wickets in two balls to set up a grandstand finale, but Benny Howell drove for four first up to settle a high-scoring thriller as a pursuit of 181 was reeled in with two deliveries to spare.<\/p>\n