Sam Billings 40 powers Oval Invincibles beats Welsh Fire by 6 wickets.
The 16th match of The Hundred Men's Competition 2021 was played yesterday between Oval Invincibles and Welsh Fire at Kennington Oval, London, in which Sam Billings 40 powers Oval Invincibles won the match by 6 wickets.
Oval Invincibles won the toss and invited Welsh Fire to bat first, Welsh Fire batted first scored 121 runs in the allotted 100 balls for the loss of 7 wickets, Welsh Fire started the inning very badly, apart from Ben Duckett no batsman played well, he played a brilliant half-century inning of 65 runs with the help of 1 six and 7 boundaries in 52 balls, Leus du Plooy scored 17 runs in 12 balls, Joshua Cobb 12 runs in 7 balls, Glenn Phillips 8 runs, Glenn Phillips 8 runs, Tom Banton 2 runs, Matthew Critchley 3 runs, James Neesham dismissed without scoring, and Ryan Higgins remains unbeaten for 3 runs. In this way, Ryan Higgins batting first after losing the toss scored 121 runs in the allotted 100 balls for the loss of 7 wickets and set a target of 122 runs in front of Oval Invincibles.
Oval Invincibles bowlers performed very brilliantly, Tom Curran took 3 wickets for just 29 runs in 20 balls, Reece Topley, Saqib Mahmood, and Tabraiz Shamsi got 1-1 wicket.
Oval Invincibles chasing 122 runs in the second inning, they achieved the target after losing 4 wickets in just 93 balls. Oval Invincibles started the inning not very well, Jason Roy and Will Jacks came to start the inning, the first wicket has gone in just 8 runs, Jason Roy was dismissed just for 8 runs, next batsman Sunil Narine came to bat, and played well with Will Jacks, the second wicket has dismissed for 47 runs, Will Jacks dismissed after playing a brilliant quick inning of 20 runs in just 9 balls, followed by Sam Billings came to bat, meanwhile the third wicket has also gone for 48 runs, Sunil Narine dismissed after playing a quick inning of 19 runs in 11 balls, next batsman Colin Ingram came to bat, and played well for a while with Sam Billings, the fourth wicket has gone in 73 runs, Colin Ingram dismissed for 9 runs in 16 balls, after that Laurie Evans came to bat, handled the inning and took the match to the victory with Sam Billings, Laurie Evans played a brilliant unbeaten inning of 28 runs in 17 balls, and Sam Billings played a brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 40 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaries in just 34 balls. In this way, Oval Invincibles chasing 122 runs in the second inning, they achieved the target in 98 balls for loss of just 4 wickets and won the match by 6 wickets.
Welsh Fire bowlers James Neesham took 2 wickets, Matt Milnes and Qais Ahmad got 1-1 wicket.
Oval Invincibles batsman Sam Billings was adjudged the best player of the match, he played a brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 40 runs with the help of 1 six and 2 boundaries in just 34 balls.
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