Cricket Highlights, 19 Aug: The Hundred 2022 (Match 19) – Birmingham Phoenix vs Northern Superchargers

Birmingham Phoenix vs Northern Superchargers (Match 19) – Highlights

Yesterday, Birmingham Phoenix and Northern Superchargers faced off in the 19th match of The Hundred 2022. Northern Superchargers batted first and they threw a fighting target to Birmingham Phoenix to chase. While chasing that target, the allotted 100 balls ran out before reaching the target. As a result, they have to leave the field with a loss. At the end of this match, Northern Superchargers is in 6th place in the points table and Birmingham Phoenix is ​​in 4th place in the points table. On the other hand, David Wiese won the man of the match award with good batting and bowling.

After winning the toss Birmingham Phoenix elected to bowl first, and the Northern Superchargers were sent off to bat. Batting first no one did well without their 3 players. First, Captain Faf du Plessis was bowled out on the 16th ball. He scored 9 runs off 6 balls with the help of 1 four.

Adam Lyth played great innings of 56 runs off 26 balls. He left the field after being bowled out on the 38th ball. His innings of 56 were studded with 3 fours and 6 sixes. After that, wickets were taken out at regular intervals. Harry Brook was caught out on the 47th ball. He scored 3 runs off 4 balls. David Willey was dismissed for 1 run in the 53rd ball. John Simpson was out for 3 runs on the 64th ball.

Then Adam Hose and David Wiese were playing very well together but David Wiese returned to the dressing room with 12 balls to spare. He played brilliant innings of 34 runs off 14 balls before getting out. He also hit 1 four and 4 sixes. After that, they lost no more wickets.

Adam Hose remained unbeaten after playing brilliant innings of 53 runs from 35 balls. He also hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. Also, Dwayne Bravo remains unbeaten with 5 runs from 6 balls. In the end, they set a target of 169 runs with 5 runs extra.

For Birmingham Phoenix, Moeen Ali took 2 wickets for 13 runs from 15 balls and Kane Richardson took 2 wickets for 36 runs from 20 balls. Besides, Imran Tahir and Tom Helm took 1 wicket each.

The target was 170 runs but in reply, they lost 9 wickets and were stuck at 137 runs. They lost wickets at regular intervals after 24 balls. Will Smeed left the field first with 15 runs off 8 balls, along with that he hit 2 fours and 1 six. Liam Livingstone was dismissed for 5 runs off the 29th ball. Moeen Ali returns to the dressing room with 1 run. Matthew Wade scored 3 runs.

Miles Hammond scored the highest runs for them. He scored 31 runs off 27 balls with the help of 4 fours and 1 six. Besides, Chris Benjamin was out for 12 runs off 11 balls. Benny Howell scored 22 runs off 18 balls with the help of 2 fours. Henry Brooks hit a golden duck. Tom Helm scored 17 runs with the help of 2 fours. Besides, Kane Richardson remains unbeaten on 9 runs and Imran Tahir remains unbeaten on 6 runs. In the end, they could not reach the target with 5 runs extra.

David Wiese took 3 wickets for Northern Superchargers. David Willey took 2 wickets. Besides Craig Miles, Ben Raine, Dwayne Bravo, Adil Rashid took 1 wicket each.

Birmingham Phoenix vs Northern Superchargers Scoreboard

Birmingham Phoenix – 137/9 (100)

Northern Superchargers – 169/6 (100)

Result – Northern Superchargers won by 32 runs

Player of the match – David Wiese

Birmingham Phoenix vs Northern Superchargers Playing XIs