Southern Brave and Trent Rockets locked horns in the 25th game of The Hundred Men’s 2022 competition at the Rose Bowl in Southampton. The home team (Brave) won the toss and elected to bowl first. The decision wasn’t fruitful for the team in the first 12 balls as the opposition scored 17 runs. However, Paul Stirling provided the first breakthrough in the form of Alex Hales (8).
Wicketkeeper batter Tom Kohler-Cadmore (8) was caught at long-off by James Fuller off Jake Lintott on the 34th ball. At 39/2, Dawid Malan and Samit Patel stitched a partnership of 51 runs. The latter was cleaned up by Fuller after scoring 21 off 15 balls. Malan (59) followed next as he missed the leg-stump yorker from Michael Hogan. Colin Munro, who generally bats in the top-four, batted at number six in this game.
The left-hander played a cameo of 10-ball 16 before being caught at deep midwicket by Alex Davies off Fuller. The team ended up scoring only 138/6 at the end of the innings.
Trent Rockets chased down the target despite some hiccups
In reply, the Yellow brigade had a poor start as they lost the wickets of Paul Stirling and skipper James Vince in the first 14 balls. The former lost his wicket on a slower ball from Sam Cook. Vince played the ball on the stumps against Luke Wood. At 9/2, wicketkeeper batter Quinton de Kock and Alex Davies stitched a partnership of 43 runs. The former scored 24 before being caught behind by Cadmore off skipper Lewis Gregory.
At 52/3, Davies and Ross Whiteley stitched a match-winning partnership of 71 runs. Ross scored 30 off 21 balls before being caught at deep midwicket by Daniel Sams off Cook. Davies, on the hand, stayed unbeaten on 51 off 43 balls and took the team over the line. The Green Brigand won the game by six wickets and five balls to spare. With this win, Southern has kept their playoff hopes alive. They now have three wins in seven games. They will play their last league game against Northern Superchargers on August 31 at Leeds.
This is how Twitter reacted
Well done Southern Brave, some comeback #TheHundred
— Jordan Elgott (@JElgott) August 25, 2022
What a great game! #SouthernBrave #TheHundred
— Roberts Codewars (@RCodewars) August 25, 2022
Southern Brave beat Trent Rockets by 6 wickets with 5 balls remaining to keep their hopes alive of making the top 3. #TheHundred #cricket
— Scott Rose (@srose93) August 25, 2022
Are Southern Brave into Match Fixing or some shit? This is abhorrent batting. #TheHundred
— Ridwan ? (@rid_aman) August 25, 2022
Southern Brave won by 6 Wickets.
Excellent spell @Hoges31 2/20. Excellent Knock Alex Davies 51*(43).#TheHundred— JaayShaan (Shankar) (@JaayShaan) August 26, 2022
? Alex Davies hauled Southern Brave to the finish line with a well-crafted half-century, earning him the Hero of the Match award ?#CricketTwitter #TheHundred pic.twitter.com/KYEFLfKJTY
— CricWick (@CricWick) August 25, 2022
That was close! ? The table is really tightening up now that we’re at the business end of the tournament ? #TheHundred #SouthernBrave #TrentRockets https://t.co/mEc1SuLwgC
— Matt (@TheKitMatt) August 25, 2022
Southern Brave win! ?
A key partnership from Alex Davies and Ross Whiteley did the hard work, and Tim David finishes the job!
The Brave keep their campaign going for another game!
? Reaction on @5liveSport extra, @BBCSounds and the @BBCSport website#BBCCricket #TheHundred
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) August 25, 2022
Southern brave back from the dead, the mens team have been pretty bad this season, mainly the top order batting, almost out of it again tonight before a big come back, we’ll played!
The womens team are storming it again this season #TheHundred— James Peter Smith (@MrJamesPSmith) August 25, 2022
Go on the Brave ?? #SouthernBrave #TheHundred
— Lizzie (@Lizzie89x) August 25, 2022
All is well that’s end well but Braves literally approached the game aa terribly as possible but the dew helped them out big time in the end #TheHundred
— Cricket Tamizhan (@CricketTamizhan) August 25, 2022
