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Adam Zampa has group a caller grounds for wickets taken successful The Hundred (17) successful a azygous season
Sam Drury
BBC Sport journalist
The Hundred men's competition, The Oval
London Spirit 96 (92 balls): Pepper 27 (18); Zampa 4-17
Oval Invincibles 100-1 (63 balls): Cox 61* (30); Stone 1-16
Invincibles won by 9 wickets
Scorecard. Table
Adam Zampa took 4-17 arsenic defending champions Oval Invincibles thrashed London Spirit by 9 wickets to adjacent successful connected a spot successful The Hundred final.
The Australia leg-spinner sparked a illness that saw Spirit spell from 40-1 to 96 each retired pinch only 3 batters reaching double figures.
Invincibles past romped to triumph pinch 37 balls to spare arsenic Jordan Cox, recently called up to nan England Test squad, bludgeoned his measurement to an unbeaten 61 from 30 balls.
Cox deed 9 fours and his 2nd six - smashed backmost complete nan bowler's caput - sealed a broad win.
England all-rounder Sam Curran besides played a cardinal domiciled for Invincibles, taking 3-10 from 15 balls, while Tom Curran picked up 2-21.
Invincibles are 2 points clear astatine nan apical of nan table, up of Southern Brave, and now person a important advantage successful position of nett run-rate arsenic well.
A top-three spot has been clinched and a triumph complete Trent Rockets connected Wednesday evening would unafraid their spot successful adjacent Sunday's Lord's final.
Already-eliminated Spirit enactment bottommost of nan table.
What other do you request to know?
Sam Curran took a wicket pinch his first shot to region Spirit opener Keaton Jennings
Zampa dismissed some of Spirit's big-hitting West Indians, Shimron Hetmyer and Andre Russell, successful nan abstraction of 8 balls
Donovan Ferreira took 4 catches - 3 successful nan heavy and a crisp drawback astatine mid-wicket - a grounds for an Oval Invincibles fielder
Olly Stone took Spirit's only wicket erstwhile he dismissed Will Jacks for 2 but owed a batch to a awesome drawback from Russell arsenic he ran backmost from mid-off
Dawid Malan vanished connected 29 not retired from 27 balls successful an unbroken guidelines of 85 pinch Cox
'Tough for anyone to overtake us' - what they said
Match hero, Oval Invincibles spinner Adam Zampa: "They put america nether nan pump successful nan powerplay but location was a spot of acquisition successful nan aboveground and nan boys dragged it backmost good successful nan middle.
"We've been playing really bully cricket passim and coming we knew really important it was to get nan win. Finishing first and perchance going consecutive done to Lord's, we've made it reliable for anyone to overtake america from here.
"But it's important successful our adjacent crippled to make that a certainty."
What is happening connected Monday?
It is simply a Midlands derby connected Monday arsenic Birmingham Phoenix big Trent Rockets astatine Edgbaston. The women's lucifer starts astatine 15:00 BST pinch nan men's crippled pursuing astatine 18:30.
You tin travel ball-by-ball commentary connected BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, BBC Sounds and nan BBC Sport website and app.
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