Devon Conway hit an unbeaten fifty as Southern Courageous beat Manchester Originals by six wickets to safe a repeat conflict with their opponents in Saturday’s Hundred eliminator and knock Welsh Fireplace out of the boys’s competitors.
Courageous restricted Originals to 130-8 on a tough Emirates Previous Trafford floor – Tymal Mills (3-27) changing into the main wicket-taker within the 2023 event with 15 scalps and Rehan Ahmed’s two strikes together with Jos Buttler for 45 from 42 balls – earlier than reaching their goal with six deliveries to spare.
The guests raced to 82-1 from 53 balls within the chase round a quick rain delay due to Conway (54no off 40), opening associate Finn Allen (14 off 4) and skipper James Vince (33 off 25), just for a collapse of 3-10 in 11 deliveries – Pakistan seamer Zaman Khan with two of the wickets for Originals – to peg Courageous again.
Originals continued to squeeze because the drizzle returned however Conway and Colin Ackermann (24no of 21) struck late boundaries to take their facet to 3rd spot within the desk, behind second-placed Originals and desk toppers – and confirmed finalists – Oval Invincibles.
Rating abstract
Manchester Originals – 130-8 from 100 balls: Jos Buttler (45 off 42 balls); Tymal Mills (3-27), Rehan Ahmed (2-26)
Southern Courageous – 134-4 from 95 balls: Devon Conway (54no off 40), James Vince (33 off 25); Zaman Khan (2-22)
The Hundred – knockout stage fixtures
Ladies’s Eliminator – Northern Superchargers vs Welsh Fireplace (Saturday, 2.30pm)
Males’s Eliminator – Manchester Originals vs Southern Courageous (Saturday, 6pm)
Ladies’s Last – Southern Courageous vs TBC (Sunday, 2.15pm)
Males’s Last – Oval Invincibles vs TBC (Sunday, 6pm)
Originals may have been eradicated on net-run charge had they suffered a heavy defeat however the slender margin of the loss means they stayed above Courageous and fourth-placed Welsh Fireplace.
Courageous and Originals will now meet at The Kia Oval to find out who faces Invincibles in Sunday’s Hundred remaining, with Fireplace’s hopes of a primary look within the knockout stage over.
Nevertheless, Fireplace can replicate on a much-improved season with the Cardiff-based facet having completed all-time low in 2022 after dropping all eight of their matches.
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Jos Buttler top-scored for Originals with 45 from 42 balls
What’s subsequent?
Thursday twenty fourth August 2:30pm
Thursday twenty fourth August 6:00pm
The group stage concludes at Edgbaston on Thursday with Birmingham Phoenix vs London Spirit in each the boys’s and ladies’s competitions. The video games is not going to influence the knockout part with all 4 groups out of rivalry for top-three locations.
The eliminators happen at The Kia Oval on Saturday with the finals then held at Lord’s on Sunday. Oval Invincibles are by way of to the boys’s remaining after topping the desk, with Southern Courageous into the ladies’s showpiece after doing likewise.
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