- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR7.4 backs away but Narine follows him with an offbreak. Rossington looks to flick it away but gets beaten. The ball hits the pad and deflects onto the stumps 49/117.1 a brilliant yorker. Right at the base of the middle stump. The batter gave charge and looked to squeeze it out but failed to get any bat on it 123/68.5 the shoe celebration is out. Fuller around off and spinning in. The batter misses the flick and gets hit on the pads. An appeal for lbw and that was heading towards middle and leg 52/214.4 top edge this time and Shamsi has the last
laughroar. Fuller this time and Morgan goes for the slog sweep but fails to middle it this time. The ball goes high up in the air towards backward square leg. Mahmood and Billings were about to collide there before Mahmood pouches it 112/314.5 two in two for Shamsi. Bopara had no idea what sorcery Shamsi did there. He tried to find cues from the pitch but failed to do so. Was a length ball around middle and off, looked like a straighter and beat the outside edge to knock the off stump as Bopara prodded tentatively 112/416.3 straight into the lap of deep-backward square leg. Was a short of a length ball that Cracknell pulled it well but found the fielder 121/517.5 goes for the yorker. Wiese is deep in his crease and whips it towards long-on. But he has hit it too well and Roy at takes a couple of steps to his right at long-on and pouches it 126/7Extras11 (b 1, lb 1, nb 2, w 7)TOTAL146/7 (20 Overs, RR: 7.3 per 6 ball)Fall of wickets: 1-49 (Adam Rossington, 7.4 ov), 2-52 (Josh Inglis, 8.5 ov), 3-112 (Eoin Morgan, 14.4 ov), 4-112 (Ravi Bopara, 14.5 ov), 5-121 (Joe Cracknell, 16.3 ov), 6-123 (Joe Denly, 17.1 ov), 7-126 (David Wiese, 17.5 ov)
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR1.1 picks out deep square leg. The move to bowl spin to Roy first up has worked. This was tossed up on off, and Roy went for the swipe over the legside again, got a steepling top edge. Cracknell the man at the boundary, juggled it once, caught it the second time. Massive wicket 7/113.5 he's caught at long-on. There's another twist in the tale. They were going swimmingly till now. Back of a length slower ball, and he hangs back to flog this with a flat bat, only he's not connected as well as he wanted and he picks out Crane, who is standing 15 yards inside the boundary 109/51.3 caught at the long-on boundary. It's all happening in this over. Narine launched into that one. Tossed up again, on off, he was on the front foot and looking to send this from Oval to Lord's, gets the toe-end and the ball hangs a really long time in the air, but Denly at the boundary stays calm and gobbles it at chest height. 11/23.2 castled him. Ingram stuck on the crease to a fuller ball that's going across him, tries to whip it through midwicket, gets an inside edge that clatters into stumps. 14/37.3 sliced to point and Crane has broken through. Another one outside off, turning away, Billings wants to manufacture something after two dot balls, giving himself room seems the wrong idea though because the ball's turning away and he has to reach for it. Can only get an edge that flies straight to the fielder. 52/415.4 yorked him. Inch perfect leg-stump yorker, Blake was making room to free his arms, can't do anything about that, and stumps are rearranged. 123/617.5 moves well across to slog sweep and loses his stumps. Not the best choice of shot perhaps. He had moved so far across all three stumps were exposed, and once you do that, you have to lay bat on ball. He misses connecting and the ball homes in on the stumps. 134/718.4 Saqib is run out at the bowler's end trying to get Evans on strike. Full toss again, and he's going so hard at them he's losing shape and timing. This is to long-on and there's never a two there. 141/8Extras5 (nb 2, w 3)TOTAL147/8 (19 Overs, RR: 7.73 per 6 ball)Did not bat: T ShamsiFall of wickets: 1-7 (Jason Roy, 1.1 ov), 2-11 (Sunil Narine, 1.3 ov), 3-14 (Colin Ingram, 3.2 ov), 4-52 (Sam Billings, 7.3 ov), 5-109 (Will Jacks, 13.5 ov), 6-123 (Alex Blake, 15.4 ov), 7-134 (Tom Curran, 17.5 ov), 8-141 (Saqib Mahmood, 18.4 ov)
Match Details
Toss
London Spirit (Men) , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
14 August 2021 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Oval Invincibles (Men) 2, London Spirit (Men) 0
Balls per over
5
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 35 runs, 0 wicket)
- London Spirit (Men): 50 runs in 40 balls, Extras 2
- London Spirit (Men): 100 runs in 72 balls, Extras 8
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 28 balls (JL Denly 13, EJG Morgan 35, Ex 6)
- Innings Break: London Spirit (Men) - 146/7 in 100 balls (RE van der Merwe 20, BC Cullen 2)
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 32 runs, 3 wickets)
- Oval Invincibles (Men): 50 runs in 34 balls, Extras 1
- Oval Invincibles (Men): 100 runs in 63 balls, Extras 2
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 26 balls (WG Jacks 14, LJ Evans 35, Ex 1)
- LJ Evans: 50 off 27 balls (4 x 4, 3 x 6)
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