Invincibles beat Brave in table-topping clash

The Hundred men's competition, The Oval

Southern Brave 118-8 (100 balls): Vince 52 (39); T Curran 4-24

Oval Invincibles 120-4 (85 balls): Cox 46* (29); Jordan 1-14

Oval Invincibles won by six wickets

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Oval Invincibles comfortably hit Southern Brave by six wickets successful a table-topping conflict successful nan men's Hundred title astatine The Oval.

The 2 sides were level astatine nan apical of nan standings going into nan fixture, and nan defending champions moved clear aft chasing a target of 119 pinch 15 balls to spare.

Having been put into bat, James Vince (52) was nan only subordinate successful nan Brave apical 5 to scope double figures arsenic nan visitors slipped to 31-4.

The Brave skipper put connected 58 for nan 5th wicket pinch Kieron Pollard, but they were some caught down successful nan abstraction of 3 balls disconnected Tom and Sam Curran respectively.

Tom Curran past struck to region Jofra Archer and Akeal Hosein successful successive balls arsenic nan visiting broadside vanished connected 118-8.

Invincibles opener Will Jacks struck nan first shot of nan reply for six, but he was retired 2 balls later, caught successful nan covers by Vince disconnected nan bowling of Craig Overton.

Dawid Malan added a sluggish 14 from 31 balls earlier his dismissal brought Sam Curran to nan crease to subordinate Jordan Cox.

The brace put connected 54, pinch Curran clubbing 5 sixes earlier he skied a drawback to Tymal Mills astatine good limb to extremity an 18-ball 35.

Invincibles skipper Sam Billings was removed by Mills wrong 4 balls, but caller England Test call-up Cox ended up 46 not out, while Donovan Ferreira thrashed Hosein for six to triumph nan match.

Invincibles all-rounder Sam Curran: "[It was a] immense win. I deliberation [we are] nan 2 in-form teams astatine nan moment. We knew we had to triumph this crippled arsenic nan first-place goes consecutive done to Lord's [and avoids an eliminator play-off match].

"I deliberation astatine nan apical erstwhile it's doing that overmuch you've sewage to return risks. Coxy played really good to anchor nan innings."

Invincibles skipper Sam Billings: "All our batters person a people nether them, which is really important going into nan back-end of nan tournament.

"Sam's conscionable smacking it, isn't he? He's playing pinch existent clarity astatine nan moment.

"The past 2 games wherever we haven't had it each our ain way, that's nan games you return assurance from."

It's disconnected to nan location of cricket connected Friday arsenic London Spirit big Manchester Originals (women's 15:00 BST, men's 18:30).

It's a bottom-of-the-table conflict successful nan men's title pinch Originals propping up Spirit, while successful nan women's tourney nan fourth-placed location broadside beryllium 2 places supra their opponents.

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