The Hundred: Closing and Eliminator locations up for grabs as 2023 match wraps | Cricket Information

It is crunch time within the 2023 version of The Hundred, with playoff locations to be received and misplaced within the males’s and ladies’s competitors because the group stage concludes this week forward of Sunday’s ultimate…

Who has certified for the ultimate already?

Oval Invincibles’ helpful five-wicket win over Trent Rockets of their ultimate group recreation on Monday evening – Sam Billings smashing an outstanding, unbeaten 76 from 40 balls – has not solely assured them of a spot in Sunday’s males’s ultimate however has additionally all however dumped the holders out of the match.

Invincibles now cannot be caught on the high of the desk, boasting six wins and 13 factors from their eight video games, with Manchester Originals’ haul of 9 subsequent greatest in second.

Rockets, in the meantime, do nonetheless occupy one of many high three positions within the desk however are precariously positioned, needing a bunch of outcomes to go their manner over the ultimate few video games – with 4 groups nonetheless able to leapfrogging them and incomes their place in Saturday’s eliminator.

Within the girls’s match, we already know our high three – Southern Courageous, Welsh Hearth and Northern Superchargers – however we do not but know which order they’re going to end in and due to this fact who goes straight by means of to Sunday’s ultimate and who’s left to slug it out on Saturday for the appropriate to affix them.

No matter occurs, we’ll have a brand new identify on the trophy, with two-time reigning champions Invincibles already out regardless of ending their match with a dramatic three-run win over Rockets on Monday.

Can Courageous be toppled in girls’s match?

Courageous have been bested by Invincibles in each these earlier girls’s finals and are as soon as once more proving fashions of consistency by sitting high of the desk with one recreation to go after six wins in seven.

They will, nonetheless, but be pipped to the publish by Hearth or Superchargers, who meet in a must-watch conflict on Tuesday – stay on Sky Sports activities Cricket and Most important Occasion from 2.30pm (first ball, 3pm).

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Hearth, who completed backside of the desk in each earlier editions of The Hundred, have loved fairly the turnaround in 2023, driving on the coattails of captain and match leading-scorer, England’s Tammy Beaumont, who struck the first-ever hundred within the girls’s competitors of their win over Rockets.

A Hearth win (or tie) in opposition to Superchargers would see them leap as much as high spot and pile the strain on Courageous to win their ultimate recreation in opposition to Originals on Wednesday – stay on Sky Sports activities Cricket and Most important Occasion from 2.30pm (first ball, 3pm) – to be able to guarantee their progress by means of to the ultimate.

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If Superchargers have been to be victorious over Hearth, they too would probably declare high spot, however they’d solely be part of Courageous stage on factors and so would want Originals to do them a favour on Wednesday.

The 2 groups which end second and third within the desk will face off in Saturday’s eliminator to find out who joins the table-toppers in Sunday’s ultimate.

Eliminator spots up for grabs in males’s comp

It is all a smidge extra difficult within the males’s competitors when figuring out which groups will make up that eliminator match-up.

Originals are within the driving seat, in second place on 9 factors, two away from a lot of the chasing pack and with a vastly superior internet run-rate. A win on Wednesday in opposition to Courageous – stay on Sky Sports activities Cricket and Most important Occasion from 6pm (first ball, 6.30pm) – would assure an eliminator spot. Even with defeat, they could sneak by means of ought to different outcomes go their manner.

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Victory for Hearth, who did not win a single recreation final season, over Superchargers on Tuesday – stay on Sky Sports activities Cricket and Most important Occasion from 6pm (first ball, 6.30pm) – would see them be part of Originals on 9 factors and in with a shout of qualifying for the subsequent stage.

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Superchargers’ hopes are a lot slimmer. At present on 5 factors and with the worst internet run-rate of all of the hopefuls, even a good-looking win over Hearth wouldn’t assure they leapfrog Rockets into that third qualifying spot.

However whichever of Superchargers and Hearth in the end win, they’re going to be cheering on Originals on Wednesday, as a win as an alternative for 2021 winners Courageous – among the many pack at the moment on seven factors – would see them leap forward of both crew and into the eliminator.

As for Thursday’s ultimate recreation of the group stage, London Spirit versus the already-eliminated Birmingham Phoenix – stay on Sky Sports activities Cricket and Most important Occasion from 6pm (first ball, 6.30pm) – the one manner Spirit can nonetheless qualify is that if Superchargers and Originals each win their respective video games.

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That might create a situation during which Originals can be assured an eliminator berth, however Spirit – at the moment on six factors – might leap forward of the contingent on seven with a win over Phoenix. A win for both Hearth or Courageous would, nonetheless, scupper these hopes.

What else is there nonetheless to play for?

If that is not sufficient for you already, the ladies’s conflict between Hearth and Superchargers on Tuesday is certainly one to be careful for because it might show to be a gown rehearsal for an extra assembly within the eliminator, or even perhaps the ultimate.

May one crew earn a sizeable psychological benefit with a helpful victory over the opposite, or will there be any particular person gamers to put down a marker forward of the weekend’s finale?

As you’ll be able to see above, there are many playoff implications already driving on the remaining matches within the males’s competitors. Though, there’s yet one more place nonetheless to be decided, winners of the wood spoon!

Winless Phoenix are already assured of that ‘honour’ within the girls’s match, however the males’s crew can keep away from the identical destiny, as long as Superchargers lose to Hearth on Tuesday they usually beat Spirit of their ultimate recreation on Thursday.

Have been Superchargers to win their recreation, then Phoenix can nonetheless keep away from ending backside however solely by hammering Spirit of their ultimate recreation to hopefully greatest their internet run-rate as they be part of them stage on six factors.

Beaumont (253 runs) and Courageous spinner Georgia Adams (15 wickets) are at the moment the ladies’s match leaders on a person foundation, with England white-ball captain, and Originals skipper, Jos Buttler (253 runs), and Superchargers left-arm tempo bowler Reece Topley (13 wickets) the very best of the bunch among the many males. However might that each one change over the ultimate few days?

What’s subsequent?

There’s one other Hundred double-header stay on Sky Sports activities on Tuesday as Northern Superchargers host Welsh Hearth, with the ladies’s groups first clashing at 3pm earlier than the boys meet at 6.30pm.

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