All it’s worthwhile to know forward of the 2025 version of The Hundred, which is stay on Sky Sports activities from August 5-31.
Who’re the groups concerned?
The eight city-based groups are: Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit, Manchester Originals, Northern Superchargers, Oval Invincibles, Southern Courageous, Trent Rockets and Welsh Fireplace.
Each matchday is a double header, with a girls’s recreation within the afternoon adopted by a males’s fixture within the night on the identical floor, beginning on Tuesday, August 5, with London Spirit vs Oval Invincibles. Each match is stay on Sky Sports activities.
And the place are video games being performed?
Phoenix play residence video games at Edgbaston, Spirit at Lord’s, Originals at Emirates Previous Trafford and Superchargers at Headingley.
Invincibles’ house is The Kia Oval and Courageous are primarily based on the Utilita Bowl, whereas Rockets play at Trent Bridge and Fireplace at Sophia Gardens.
Which gamers ought to we glance out for?
James Anderson and Rocky Flintoff have been signed within the wildcard draft for The Hundred
England’s document Check wicket-taker James Anderson, 43, will play in The Hundred for the primary time after being a wildcard decide for Manchester Originals, whereas Northern Superchargers have two Flintoffs of their ranks as 17-year-old Rocky Flintoff joins a squad coached by dad Andrew.
Within the girls’s competitors, you’ll be able to watch England regulars Nat Sciver-Brunt (Trent Rockets),Tammy Beaumont (Welsh Fireplace), Sophia Dunkley (Welsh Fireplace) and Sophie Ecclestone (Manchester Originals), in addition to worldwide stars like Australia’s Ash Gardner (Trent Rockets) and South Africa’s Laura Wolvaardt (Southern Courageous).
How do matches work?
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- 100 balls a facet, the staff with essentially the most runs wins. It is so simple as that.
- 5 bowlers can bowl as much as 20 balls in an innings, together with 5 or 10 in a row.
- The standard six-ball overs seen in different types of cricket should not utilized in The Hundred with 10 balls bowled earlier than a change of ends.
- The powerplay is for the primary 25 balls of an innings with solely two fielders allowed outdoors the 30-yard circle.
- A 25-ball-a-side recreation is the minimal size that may be performed within the occasion of moist climate
- If a match within the knockout phases is tied, a Tremendous 5 shall be performed, with the winner being the staff scoring essentially the most runs from an extra 5 balls every.
How does the match work?
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- Within the league part, sides play six different groups as soon as and their nearest rivals twice.
- We’ll, subsequently, get two Invincibles vs Spirit matches and two Superchargers vs Originals video games. Courageous will play Fireplace twice and Rockets will meet Phoenix on two events.
- Groups earn two factors for a win and one within the occasion of a tie or no consequence.
- If sides end on the identical variety of factors, league place is decided by web run-rate.
- The facet that finishes high of the league desk will safe a spot within the remaining, with the groups in second and third subsequently assembly in an eliminator to find out the second finalists.
Who’re the defending champions?
London Spirit pose with the trophy after successful The Hundred Girls’s Closing at Lord’s, London
London Spirit Girls gained The Hundred for the primary time final yr after an exciting four-wicket victory over Welsh Fireplace within the remaining at Lord’s.
Set 116 to win, it got here all the way down to 4 wanted from the final three balls earlier than Deepti Sharma lofted Hayley Matthews over long-on for six.
Within the males’s version, Oval Invincibles gained The Hundred for the second yr operating after a convincing 17-run victory over Southern Courageous within the remaining at Lord’s.
Set 148, Courageous made a strong begin to their chase however then collapsed from 58-0 to 102-7 as Invincibles seized management.
Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa made the preliminary breakthrough earlier than quick bowler Saqib Mahmood shredded the Courageous center order with three wickets in seven balls.
When does this yr’s match start and finish?
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The motion will get going at Lord’s on Tuesday as London Spirit Males look to get Oval Invincibles’ title defence off the worst doable begin (6.30pm), after defending champions London Spirit girls tackle their Invincibles counterparts within the afternoon (2.45pm).
The league stage runs till Thursday August 28, concluding with the Southern Courageous vs Welsh Fireplace males’s and ladies’s double header in Southampton.
The eliminators then happen at The Kia Oval on Saturday August 30 with the finals subsequently held at Lord’s the next day because the 2025 champions are topped.
