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The Hundred Women’s 2024 season came to a conclusion on Sunday, August 18 with a high-octane final between Welsh Fire and London Spirit.
Hosted by the iconic Lord’s stadium in London, Welsh Fire batted first and managed to produce just 115/8 from their share of 100 balls. Captain Tammy Beaumont and in-form all-rounder Hayley Matthews belted valiant 20s at the top of the order before Jess Jonassen fueled her team’s innings with a confident half-century.
Looking well settled to post up a competitive total, Welsh Fire eventually lost track at the death owing to some collective brilliance from Eva Gray (2/26) and Deepti Sharma (1/23). Earlier in the match, Spirit spinner Sarah Glenn (2/17) struck twice in succession to seize early advantage for her team.
In response, Spirit fumbled early in their run-chase by losing Meg Lanning and Cordelia Griffith to Shabnim Ismail and Georgia Davis respectively. However, Georgia Redmayne steadied her team’s faltering start by carving out 34 runs from 32 balls and formed handy partnerships with captain Heather Knight (24 off 18) and Danielle Gibson. Gibson herself smacked 22 from nine balls before she and captain Knight were cleaned up by Ismail (3/24) in quick succession.
At 112/6 in 97 balls, Deepti Sharma (16*) launched the winning hit as the Spirit claimed the Women’s Hundred 2024 title at Lord’s.
The Hundred Women's 2024 Most Runs List
Trent Rockets’ Nat Sciver-Brunt finished The Hundred Women’s 2024 season at the top of the run-scoring leaderboard with 303 runs from eight innings. She is followed by London Spirit batters Heather Knight and Georgia Redmayne for tallying 271 and 229 runs each from 10 matches.
Southern Brave’s Danni Wyatt takes the fourth position for hammering 227 runs at a splendid average of 32.42.
Alice Capsey and Laura Wolvaardt take the subsequent two slots for amounting 222 and 215 runs respectively. London Spirit’s Deepti Sharma is ranked seventh on the list for scoring 212 runs.
Remarkably, Deepti was dismissed only once in the entire tournament and holds the best average among all batters (212). Annabel Sutherland, also with 212 runs, takes the eighth position for holding an average of 35.33 after seven innings.
Oval Invincibles’ Marizanne Kapp and Birmingham Phoenix’ Ellyse Perry round up the top 10 batting table for scoring 207 and 203 runs respectively.
The Hundred Women's 2024 Most Wickets List
After nearly a month of action, it is Linsey Smith who finished The Hundred Women’s 2024 season as the leading wicket-taker. She snapped 15 wickets from just seven innings at an imperial average of 9.66.
Sarah Glenn, who picked up two match-winning wickets in the final, climbed to number two on the list for extending her tally to 13 scalps. Runners-up Welsh Fire bowlers Jess Jonassen and Freya Davies take the third and fourth positions respectively for harvesting 12 and 11 wickets.
Also with 11 wickets, bowlers Marizanne Kapp, Emily Arlott and Hayley Matthews are ranked fifth, sixth and seventh in that order with respect to their bowling averages. Northern Superchargers’ Annabel Sutherland is ranked eighth for taking 10 wickets from seven innings at an average of 9.90.
Katie Levick and Ashleigh Gardner also collected 10 wickets each in the process to occupy the final two positions on the top 10 wicket-taking charts.
