Invincibles Bowl Spirit Out For 80 In Dominant Win

The Hundred men's competition, Lord's

London Spirit 80 each retired (94 balls): Rashid Khan 3-11, S Curran 3-18

Oval Invincibles 81-4 (69 balls): Jacks 24 (24); Dawson 2-9

Invincibles won by six wickets

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London Spirit were bowled retired for nan second-lowest people by a men's squad successful The Hundred arsenic Oval Invincibles claimed a thumping six-wicket triumph astatine Lord's.

After opting to bat first, Spirit quickly recovered themselves successful problem and duly slumped to 80 each retired aft 94 balls.

Invincibles debutant Rashid Khan starred arsenic he took 3-11, while England all-rounder Sam Curran claimed 3-18 - including a 47.1mph delivery, nan slowest wicket-taking shot by a seamer successful nan history of nan men's competition.

While nan transportation was not straightforward to bat on, Invincibles knocked disconnected nan runs pinch 31 balls to spare, starting their title defence pinch a very convincing victory.

Jason Behrendorff group nan reside for an awesome Oval Invincibles bowling and fielding effort pinch a miserly 10-ball opening set.

The Australian left-arm seamer returned to disregard Spirit skipper Kane Williamson successful his adjacent five, by which clip opener Keaton Jennings had already gone.

David Warner, making his Hundred debut, was starved of nan onslaught successful nan powerplay and successful trying to dress up for mislaid clip holed retired disconnected Jordan Clark for conscionable nine.

That near Spirit 26-3, successful fuss but nan harm was acold from terminal. Enter Rashid Khan.

The Afghanistan leg-spinner - who besides took 3 catches successful nan heavy - struck pinch his 3rd shot to region Wayne Madsen successful a 10-ball group that went for 10 runs, and proceeded to show disconnected his afloat arsenal of deliveries, varying his gait to awesome effect.

He conceded conscionable 1 much tally successful his adjacent 10 balls. Liam Dawson was trapped plumb successful beforehand and Ryan Higgins dollied a drawback to backward constituent arsenic Spirit's batters tried and grounded to get to grips pinch nan apical T20 wicket-taker of each time.

Plenty of Rashid's deliveries were importantly quicker than nan ultra-slow balls being deployed by Curran.

The deficiency of gait seemed to propulsion disconnected nan Spirit batters wholly and nan left-armer removed Ashton Turner, who top-scored for Spirit pinch 21, pinch a 47.7mph shot earlier going moreover slower to vessel Richard Gleeson and extremity nan innings.

With specified a mini full to chase, Invincibles were capable to return their clip connected a tricky transportation and contempt Spirit spinner Dawson's fantabulous 2-9, it was only a matter of erstwhile alternatively than if nan holders would seal nan win.

It was near to Donovan Ferreira to decorativeness it disconnected by clubbing Luke Wood for six from nan 69th shot of nan Invincibles innings.

It's up to Old Trafford connected Wednesday arsenic Manchester Originals return connected Southern Brave successful different double-header.

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