- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR2.1 superb diving catch from Santner running back from mid-on! Pepper's misery comes to an end. In the slot, Pepper looks to loft over mid-on with a straight bat and toe-ends it. Santner turns around, runs back two-thirds of the way to the boundary, and flings himself forwards to pouch it. Top work 9/14.5 picks out deep backward point! That just about sums up London Spirit's season. Final ball of the Powerplay, flashes a short ball away on the upper-cut, and picks out Brown on the rope. Jennings and Topley exchange a few words... doesn't look too amicable either 35/33.5 feathered behind! Short ball, aimed at the ribs. Lawrence shapes to pull but is cramped for room and it flicks the glove on its way through to Pooran. Big fist-pump from Potts, who strikes early 17/27.4 googly turns a mile and crashes into the stumps! Critchley had absolutely no idea how to play that. It started a long way outside the off stump, drifted in and then span even further, chopping the batter in half and pegging back the top of off. Beautiful stuff from Rashid 47/49.2 smacked on the back thigh, given out! Hetmyer sends it upstairs. Height looked an issue but he was playing off the back foot. Hit him just above the knee roll, right in front of off stump, past the inside-edge as he looks to nudge through midwicket. Hawk-Eye has it hitting the top of middle and off, and Hetmyer's underwhelming Hundred season is over 56/519.4 timber! Perfect yorker this time, 87mph, which sneaks under the toe of Bopara's bat and thuds into the base of middle and off stump. Potts waggles his finger at Brook as though to suggest this was a plan - admittedly a simpler one to devise than execute! 111/712.3 cleaned up by the googly! I said it was Dre or bust, and it looks like bust yet again for the Spirit. Big turn again on the wrong 'un. Russell clears the front leg looking to launch over wide long-on but is deceived by the googly and loses his off stump 62/619.5 gets his wide yorker in as Stone shuffles across looking to flick it away past short fine leg. Pooran sticks out his left hand to stop it and flings it to Potts, who is at point-blank range when he gathers and rolls it into the stumps with Stone scrambling but well short 111/8Extras7 (lb 1, w 6)TOTAL111/8 (20 Overs, RR: 5.55 per 6 ball)Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Michael Pepper, 2.1 ov), 2-17 (Dan Lawrence, 3.5 ov), 3-35 (Keaton Jennings, 4.5 ov), 4-47 (Matt Critchley, 7.4 ov), 5-56 (Shimron Hetmyer, 9.2 ov), 6-62 (Andre Russell, 12.3 ov), 7-111 (Ravi Bopara, 19.4 ov), 8-111 (Olly Stone, 19.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB RJW Topley 3 0 25 2 8.33 8 2 2 0 0 PR Brown 3 0 23 0 7.66 3 1 1 1 0 MJ Potts 4 0 18 2 4.50 8 2 0 0 0 MW Short 3 0 14 0 4.66 7 1 0 3 0 AU Rashid 4 0 16 3 4.00 9 1 0 2 0 MJ Santner 3 0 14 0 4.66 6 1 0 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.1 Birthday wicket first ball! Leggie, not a big turner, big skidding off the slick surface from a decent length, bit of bounce, edge taken, well held by Pepper 47/1Extras0TOTAL64/1 (8.4 Overs, RR: 7.27 per 6 ball)Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Graham Clark, 5.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB DJ Worrall 2 1 6 0 3.00 8 1 0 0 0 RJ Gleeson 1 0 16 0 16.00 1 4 0 0 0 OP Stone 1 0 16 0 16.00 1 0 2 0 0 LA Dawson 2 0 12 0 6.00 4 2 0 0 0 MJJ Critchley 2 0 11 1 5.50 3 1 0 0 0 RS Bopara 0.4 0 3 0 3.75 1 0 0 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Northern Superchargers (Men) , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
13 August 2024 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Northern Superchargers (Men) 2, London Spirit (Men) 0
Balls per over
5
Match Notes
- Rain: London Spirit (Men) - 0/0
- Wet Ground: London Spirit (Men) - 0/0
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 35 runs, 3 wickets)
- London Spirit (Men): 50 runs in 41 balls, Extras 5
- Balls 47: Review by London Spirit (Men) (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - JD Middlebrook, Batter - SO Hetmyer (Struck down)
- London Spirit (Men): 100 runs in 95 balls, Extras 7
- Innings Break: London Spirit (Men) - 111/8 in 100 balls (LA Dawson 27)
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 47 runs, 0 wicket)
- Northern Superchargers (Men): 50 runs in 29 balls, Extras 0
- Rain: Northern Superchargers (Men) - 64/1 in 44 balls (MW Short 25, OG Robinson 13)
Match Coverage
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