Invincibles vs Originals, 13th Match at London, Men's Hundred, Aug 09 2023 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
13th Match (N), The Oval, August 09, 2023, The Hundred Men's Competition

Invincibles won by 94 runs

Player Of The Match
60 (27) & 2 catches
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9:18pm: Right, that's all from here. Thanks for joining us, and thanks to the weather for finally playing ball, as much for our benefit as the 23,376 at the Kia Oval. See you all tomorrow!

Heinrich Klaasen is your Meerkat Match Hero. Funnily enough, he says the sun was hard to contend with at the start, making it hard to pick up the ball as shadows fell across the pitch. "Credit must go to Spencey - 20 balls, one run for three wickets. I don't know why he's not standing here!"

Spencer Johnson on his match hero snub: "Absolute blur at the minute, speechless! I don't know what's going on! I've had a bit of a tough run with injury. I'm 27 now and coming out the other side. I'm enjoying my cricket and lucky to be here."

9:07pm: In fact, this is the biggest winning margin/heaviest defeat in the Hundred, beating Birmingham Phoenix's 93-run win over Welsh Fire in the inaugural season

89
W
Atkinson to Overton, OUT

That's all she wrote! Billings takes the catch as Overton top-edges a pull, sealing an emphatic victory by Oval Invincibles.

Jamie Overton c †Billings b Atkinson 37 (21b 4x4 3x6 27m) SR: 176.19
88
Atkinson to Overton, no run

Slower ball, just on the right side of the tramline. Overton's livid

87
4
Atkinson to Overton, FOUR runs

Fortuitous as Atkinson goes full and Overton gets a thick edge up and over third for his seventh boundary

86
Atkinson to Overton, no run

Hangs back and slaps across the line, but straight to wide long on

after 85 balls14 runs
MO-M: 88/9Need 99 from 15 balls
Jamie Overton33 (17b 3x4 3x6)
Richard Gleeson0 (2b)
Sam Curran 0/17 (10)
85
4
Sam Curran to Overton, FOUR runs

Three in a row! Flayed through extra cover as Roy puts in a dive but can't stop the boundary

84
4
Sam Curran to Overton, FOUR runs

Rinse and repeat! Overton the only Originals player with any credit today after his 2 for 21

83
4
Sam Curran to Overton, FOUR runs

Full on the pads and Overton times well between midwicket and long on for four pointless runs

82
Sam Curran to Overton, no run

Slower, wider, reaches for it and skies down the ground... but Roy can't get to the ball in time as he charges and then slides in from long off

82
1w
Sam Curran to Overton, 1 wide

Swing takes this one from Curran - over the wicket to the right-handed Overton - down the leg side

81
1b
Sam Curran to Gleeson, 1 bye

Should have been a run out! Gleeson misses a slower ball and Overton calls him through. Billings' under-arm is just wide

CHANGE OF END
after 80 balls2 runs
MO-M: 74/9Need 113 from 20 balls
Jamie Overton21 (13b 3x6)
Richard Gleeson0 (1b)
Sunil Narine 3/12 (20)
80
Narine to Overton, no run

Squared up as Overton tried to manufacture something into the leg side. No dice.

79
Narine to Overton, no run

Yorker dug out on leg stump to long on. No run

78
2
Narine to Overton, 2 runs

Sliced over the off side and there's a scampered two as Roy fields sharply on the slide

77
Narine to Overton, no run

Shorter as Overton comes at Narine. Worked out to the leg side fence

76
Narine to Overton, no run

Scuffed into the leg side, again no run taken

Sunil Narine - 3 for 10 off 15 - for his final set

after 75 balls14 runs
MO-M: 72/9Need 115 from 25 balls
Jamie Overton19 (8b 3x6)
Richard Gleeson0 (1b)
Nathan Sowter 2/34 (20)
75
6
Sowter to Overton, SIX runs

Smeared! Wide of long on, as Jacks tries to keep it in play but can't get to the ball as he leaps over the sponge

74
6
Sowter to Overton, SIX runs

And that's why he wanted it... Sowter floats one up for a catch in the deep, but unless he's got a mate 20 rows back into the JM Finn stand at long off, he's not going to get anything

73
Sowter to Overton, no run

Carved out to wide long off but no run taken as Overton opts to retain the strike.

72
2b
Sowter to Overton, 2 byes

Through the legs of Overton who was trying to work to the leg side. Billings is livid the two runs have been given as byes

71
Sowter to Overton, no run

Into the pads of Overton, who had moved just off the cut strip!

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