Former England captain Eoin Morgan has revealed his picks for the winners of the continuing The Hundred 2024. The fourth version of the competitors received underway this week.
The primary recreation of the competitors happened on Tuesday (July 23) with Oval Invincibles taking up Birmingham Phoenix within the males’s and ladies’s match. Within the males’s recreation, the Oval Invincibles thrashed Birmingham Phoenix by 8 wickets.
Batting first, Birmingham Phoenix had been all out for 89 runs off 81 balls with solely three batters registering double-digit scores. Opener Rishi Patel top-scored for his aspect, scoring 25 runs off 24 balls whereas the likes of Jacob Bethell (22) and Benny Howell (24) additionally made helpful contributions.
Barring them, not a single participant may rating greater than 4 runs as 5 gamers scored precisely 1 whereas two registered geese. For Oval Invincibles, Adam Zampa picked up 3 wickets for 11 runs whereas Mohammad Amir, Saqib Mahmood, and Will Jacks picked up 2 wickets every.
In reply, the Invincibles chased down the full in 69 deliveries and with 8 wickets in hand. Captain Sam Billings led from the entrance, scoring an unbeaten 31 whereas Dawid Malan (24) and Tawanda Muyeye (23) performed essential knocks as nicely.
Within the girls’s match, the Invincibles thrashed the Phoenix by 45 runs. Requested to bat first, the Invincibles posted an enormous complete of 150 for five in 100 balls. Paige Scholfield and Alice Capsey starred with the bat by scoring half-centuries, Scholfield scored 71 runs from 40 balls whereas Capsey scored 52 off 40.
In reply, the Birmingham-based outfit was bowled out for 105 runs in 92 balls. Barring Amy Jones (21), no different Birmingham batter may attain the 20-run mark because the Invincibles registered a simple victory. Amanda-Jade Wellington impressed with the ball, taking 3 wickets for 9 runs.
Eoin Morgan picks his favorites:
With the match getting underway this week, Eoin Morgan has picked his favorites to win the Hundred 2024. Talking on Sky Sports activities, the England legend backed Southern Courageous to defend the title within the girls’s Hundred. Within the males’s Hundred, Eoin Morgan snubbed defending champions Oval Invincibles and picked London Spirits as his favorites to win the competitors.
“My workforce that I will tip this 12 months within the girls’s Hundred is the Southern Courageous, the defending champions. The primary two years, it went to the Oval Invincibles, I imagine the title this 12 months shall be defended but once more,” stated Eoin Morgan.
“Within the males’s Hundred, I’m backing the lads at Lord’s, the London Spirit. Been to the qualifiers as soon as and missed out. So they’re due, with the standard of gamers that they’ve. The likes of Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope as an addition and the powerhouse from Jamaica, Andre Russell,” he added.
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