Oval Invincibles’ Mady Villiers will go head-to-head with Sophie Ecclestone of the Manchester Originals in The Hundred
The Hundred will make history in its opening component as it releases with a ladies’s match. The action-packed brand-new 100-ball competitors will begin with Oval Invincibles hosting Manchester Originals at the Kia Oval on Wednesday, July 21, prior to the very same 2 guys’s sides take on the following day.
It will be the very first time a significant UK group sporting occasion has actually released guys’s and ladies’s competitors along with each other and headlined with a ladies’s match.
Lord’s will host The Hundred Final (guys’s and ladies’s) on August 21, with the The Hundred Remover happening the day previously at the Kia Oval. The whole competitors, consisting of all guys’s and ladies’s video games, will be transmitted live on Sky.
0:41 The Hundred is a brand name brand-new competitors including the world’s finest gamers from the guys’s and ladies’s video games: 100 balls per group, most runs wins, it’s as basic as that
‘ Making history’
After the opening 2 matches, the remainder of the schedule will see the guys’s and ladies’s groups both using the very same day, at the very same place, with the aspiration to raise ladies’s cricket through The Hundred.
Sophie Ecclestone is presently ranked the world’s No 1 ranked bowler in Women’s T20 cricket
England spinner, and freshly revealed Manchester Originals finalizing, Sophie Ecclestone, stated: “The idea of making history and possibly bowling the very first ball of The Hundred is actually amazing. It is great news that the competitors is introducing with a ladies’s match and we can’t wait to get The Hundred off to the very best possible start.”
Fellow Manchester Originals and England star Jos Buttler stated: “It is fantastic that we’ll be associated with the opening 2 video games of The Hundred which the competitors is starting with a ladies’s video game.
” The rest of our team will be revealed today and I make certain both ourselves and Oval Invincibles will require to the field with sides filled with quality come the opening components.”
England wicketkeeper-batsman Jos Buttler belongs to the Manchester Originals team
The Hundred is a brand-new competition with the objective of opening cricket as much as more households and youths, by merging first-rate, hectic cricket with family-friendly home entertainment off the pitch.
It includes 8 brand name brand-new groups based in Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham, Southampton and 2 in London. It is 100 balls for each side, whoever ratings the most runs wins.
1:05 The Hundred is featuring video games every day from July 21 to August 21 and a host of stars set to light it up throughout the nation!
Beth Barrett-Wild, head of The Hundred Women’s competitors, stated: “Opening The Hundred with a standalone ladies’s match represents a historical minute, not simply for cricket and ladies’s cricket, however more commonly for sport.
” We are actually happy to be able to make this statement, and I can not wait to see our fantastic female gamers leave at the Kia Oval on July 21.
” The schedule actually epitomises how The Hundred is altering the video game – putting gender-balance at its heart and providing males and females on the very same platform, with the very same scale of aspiration from the very start.”
The Hundred Components
The opening components for the inaugural edition of The Hundred have actually been revealed
On the opening weekend (July 24-25), Trent Firecrackers host Southern Brave, Northern Superchargers welcome Welsh Fire and London Spirit handle Oval Invincibles in the very first derby of The Hundred.
Manchester Originals deal with Northern Superchargers at Emirates Old Trafford on July 28, with the reverse component at Emerald Headingley on August 12. The group components end on August 18 with London Spirit taking a trip to Cardiff to handle Welsh Fire.
Tickets will go on sale for The Hundred from April 7 in a concern window. Check Out thehundred.com to register and get concern ticket gain access to and all the current details.
Tickets go on basic sale from April 21 Price for households has actually been prioritised with tickets for U16s at ₤ 5 and adult tickets beginning at ₤ 10 for 2 video games (ladies’s and guys’s match) while kids U5 go totally free
Refund policies will remain in location if matches are affected by Covid.
Complete list of components (all are both guys’s and ladies’s matches unless mentioned)
July 21: Oval Invincibles v Manchester Originals (ladies’s), Kia Oval
July 22: Oval Invincibles v Manchester Originals (guys’s), Kia Oval
July 23: Birmingham Phoenix v London Spirit, Edgbaston
July 24: Trent Firecrackers v Southern Brave, Trent Bridge
Northern Superchargers v Welsh Fire, Emerald Headingley
July 25: London Spirit v Oval Invincibles, Lord’s
Manchester Originals v Birmingham Phoenix, Emirates Old Trafford
July 26: Trent Firecrackers v Northern Superchargers, Trent Bridge
July 27: Welsh Fire v Southern Brave, Sophia Gardens
July 28: Manchester Originals v Northern Superchargers, Emirates Old Trafford
July 29: London Spirit v Trent Firecrackers, Lord’s
July 30: Southern Brave v Birmingham Phoenix, Ageas Bowl
July 31: Welsh Fire v Manchester Originals, Sophia Gardens
Northern Superchargers v Oval Invincibles, Emerald Headingley
August 1: Birmingham Phoenix v Trent Firecrackers, Egdbaston
London Spirit v Southern Brave, Lord’s
August 2: Oval Invincibles v Welsh Fire, Kia Oval
August 3: London Spirit v Northern Superchargers, Lord’s
August 4: Birmingham Phoenix v Oval Invincibles, Edgbaston
August 5: Manchester Originals v Southern Brave, Emirates Old Trafford
August 6: Welsh Fire v Trent Firecrackers, Sophia Gardens
August 7: Southern Brave v Northern Superchargers, Ageas Bowl
August 8: Oval Invincibles v Trent Firecrackers, Kia Oval
August 9: Birmingham Phoenix v Welsh Fire, Edgbaston
August 10: Manchester Originals v London Spirit, Emirates Old Trafford
August 11: Southern Brave v Welsh Fire, Ageas Bowl
August 12: Northern Superchargers v Manchester Originals, Emerald Headingley
August 13: Trent Firecrackers v Birmingham Phoenix, Trent Bridge
August 14: Oval Invincibles v London Spirit, Kia Oval
August 15: Trent Firecrackers v Manchester Originals, Trent Bridge
August 16: Southern Brave v Oval Invincibles, Ageas Bowl
August 17: Northern Superchargers v Birmingham Phoenix, Emerald Headingley
August 18: Welsh Fire v London Spirit, Sophia Gardens
August 20: Women’s and Guys’s Remover, Kia Oval
August 21: Male’s and Women’s Finals, Lord’s
The Hundred will likewise be covered by the BBC, with live tv protection of 10 guys’s video games and as much as 8 live ladies’s matches, consisting of The Hundred Final and the ladies’s opening video game.
Tickets
Tickets to the 2021 edition of The Hundred will be readily available to purchase throughout 4 sales windows in the lead as much as the competitors this summer season.
County members will have very first opportunity to get tickets, followed by individuals who purchased tickets for the 2020 competitors. Qualified members will be called straight by their county, and 2020 purchasers will be called straight by The Hundred with more information on these chances.
The concern window will then open to all those registered to thehundred.com, from April 7-18, prior to they then go on basic sale will begin with April 21 and are open to anybody to purchase tickets.
