Hayley Matthews hit an unbeaten 78 as Welsh Fire beat Oval Invincibles by six wickets in The Hundred women’s competition at Lord’s.
The hard-hitting West Indies star paced her 46-ball knock perfectly to help Fire chase down a tough target of 151 with five balls to spare.
Danielle Gibson hit 41 off 25 balls for Invincibles and seamer Freya Davies was the pick of the Fire bowlers, dismissing England captain Heather Knight for five and Meg Lanning (31) in the space of three balls.
Fire struggled for fluency early on before Matthews stepped on the accelerator.
With 16 needed from 10 balls, Matthew saw it off in style with consecutive boundaries off the bowling of Deepti Sharma.
Invincibles suffer a first defeat in this year’s competition and remain second in the table, with Fire moving into third place.
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Publish date : 2024-08-01 13:43:03
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