The Hundred Women’s 2025: Top 3 player battles to watch out for in match 5

Oval Invincibles Women will face Manchester Originals Women in the fifth match of the Women’s Hundred on Saturday, August 9, at the Kennington Oval in London. Oval Invincibles lost their first game against London Spirit Women by 17 runs. Manchester Originals had a similar outing against the Southern Brave Women. Both teams have faced each other on four occasions in the Women’s Hundred, and Oval Invincibles have won all four encounters.

Here are the top three player battles to watch out for in Oval Invincibles Women vs Manchester Originals Women, Match 5, The Hundred Women’s 2025:

1. Meg Lanning (Oval Invincibles) vs Sophie Ecclestone (Manchester Originals):

Meg Lanning and Sophie Ecclestone have had a very interesting rivalry at the international level as well as in franchise cricket. Lanning has scored 61 runs off 120 deliveries from Ecclestone in Test cricket and was dismissed once. In ODIs, she has made 44 runs off 70 deliveries. In T20Is, Lanning has scored runs at a strike rate of 111.8 against Ecclestone and was dismissed twice.

2. Lauren Winfield-Hill (Oval Invincibles) vs Kathryn Bryce (Manchester Originals):

Kathryn Bryce has not been able to dismiss Lauren Winfield-Hill in the Women’s Hundred so far. Winfield-Hill has made 17 runs off 15 deliveries against Bryce in the tournament. Overall, Winfield-Hill has made 57 runs off 38 deliveries from Bryce and has been dismissed twice.

3. Deandra Dottin (Manchester Originals) vs Marizanne Kapp (Oval Invincibles):

Marizanne Kapp has dismissed Deandra Dottin on five occasions. Three of these five dismissals have come in ODIs, where Dottin has made 30 runs off 43 deliveries from Kapp. In T20Is, Dottin scored 40 runs from Kapp’s 36 deliveries for two dismissals. In T20s, Dottin has scored runs at a strike rate of 84.1 against Kapp but has never been dismissed. Dottin has dismissed Kapp twice, once in an ODI game in 2018 and the second time during the WBBL in 2024.

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