Northern Superchargers ended Oval Invincibles’ hopes in this year’s Hundred women’s competition and consolidated their own strong position with a comfortable seven-wicket victory at Headingley.<\/b><\/p>\n
The win takes Superchargers onto 20 points in second place, four behind unbeaten Southern Brave and four clear of Manchester Originals and London Spirit, who have played a game fewer. <\/p>\n
Opener Alice-Davidson Richards capitalised on some loose bowling to strike 50 from 32 balls to break the back of the Superchargers’ chase of 126.<\/p>\n
She fell with 42 runs needed and Australian Phoebe Litchfield, who sparkled again in making 29, followed three balls later, but Nicola Carey made an unbeaten 15-ball 25 and Superchargers won with five balls to spare.<\/p>\n
Invincibles were hampered by bowler Tash Farrant injuring her back in the field and only being able to bowl five balls.<\/p>\n
Alice Capsey also went off after a blow to her right hand while bowling but the England all-rounder was able to return to the attack.<\/p>\n
Superchargers’ earlier made the ideal start when Grace Ballinger bowled Paige Scholfield with the first ball of the match. <\/p>\n
Invincibles were 64-4 after 60 balls when Australian Meg Lanning, the tournament’s leading run-scorer, was pinned lbw and although captain Lauren Winfield-Hill, dropped down the order after a poor run as opener, hit 37 from 30, their 125-6 felt below par.<\/p>\n
Seamer Kate Cross, 24 hours after being left out of England’s World Cup squad, took a solid 2-16.<\/p>\n
Superchargers play Manchester Originals in their final match on Tuesday, live on the BBC.<\/p>\n
They will be guaranteed a place in the eliminator at worst with victory but could progress regardless given their strong net run-rate.<\/p>\n
Invincibles are sixth and, with one game remaining, can no longer finish in the top three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Superchargers ended Oval Invincibles’ hopes in this year’s Hundred women’s competition and consolidated their own strong position…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-367301","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\/115078272431260053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367301","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=367301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}