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Kennington Oval played host to the 12th game of The Hundred Men's Competition 2024 between Oval Invincibles and Northern Superchargers. Invincibles skipper Sam Billings won the toss and elected to field first in the hope that the deck has something to offer to the bowlers upfront.
Opener Matthew Short (20 off 13) gave the Superchargers a decent start but it was Nicholas Pooran’s 41-ball 65* that made the difference. Batting at a strike rate of 158.53, Pooran scored four boundaries and four maximums as he played at No. 3 with expertise. A blistering 20 off 10 deliveries down the order from Ollie Robinson helped the Superchargers post a first-inning total of 145/5 in the first 100 deliveries of the game.
Sam Curran scalped two wickets for the Superchargers, while his teammates Spencer Johnson, Saqib Mahmood, and Adam Zampa took one wicket apiece.
Chasing 146 in 100 balls, the Oval Invincibles batting lineup never got going as no batter in the top five made any significant contributions. Donovan Ferreira (49 off 24) played a brilliant hand to keep his side afloat in this contest before he was dismissed.
In the end, the Invincibles could only manage to put up a score of 126/9, handing the Superchargers a 19-run win in the 12th match of the tournament. Jordan Clark (2/26), Adil Rashid (2/28), and Matthew Potts (2/180) were the top wicket-takers for the Northern Superchargers.
The Hundred Men's 2024 Most Runs List
Nicholas Pooran’s 65-run innings against the Oval Invincibles put him right on top of the highest run-getters leaderboard with a total of 137 runs in three matches. The Northern Superchargers batter has scored his runs at a strike rate of 152.22.
Except for Pooran, only two other batters have crossed the 100-run mark after the completion of 12 games this season. Former Kolkata Knight Riders batter Tom Banton (118) and Birmingham Phoenix batter Jacob Bethell (111) occupy the second and third spots, respectively.
James Vince and Liam Dawson are in the fourth and fifth places, having scored a total of 95 and 85 runs, respectively, in three matches. Donovan Ferreira (79), Wayne Madsen (76), Sam Hain (76), Dan Lawrence (68), and Rovman Powell (60) round off the top-10 highest run-getters list, occupying the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and 10th places, respectively.
The Hundred Men's 2024 Most Wickets List
Aussie leg break bowler Adam Zampa is atop the highest wicket-takers chart, having claimed seven wickets in the three games played so far this season. With best bowling figures of 3/11, Zampa has bowled at an economy rate of 6.10.
Craig Overton, Liam Dawson, David Willey, Tim Southee, Chris Jordan, and Matthew Potts see themselves in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh places, respectively. All of them have claimed five wickets this season.
Jake Ball and Rashid Khan have both scalped four wickets this season in just two games, while Tom Hartley of the Manchester Originals rounds off the top-10 highest wicket-takers list with four wickets to his name in three games.
