Spirit comfortably win to eliminate Superchargers

The Hundred women's competition, Headingley

Northern Superchargers 99-7 (100 balls): Davidson-Richards 33 (39); Gray 3-17

London Spirit 105-3 (86 balls): Knight 43 (35); Smith 3-16

London Spirit won by 7 wickets

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London Spirit easy chased a target of 100 to destruct opponents Northern Superchargers from nan women's Hundred title astatine Headingley.

Superchargers could person topped nan array pinch a triumph successful their last group game, but grounded to group a defendable full and Spirit leapfrog them into nan knockout positions aft scoring nan required runs wrong 86 deliveries.

Having won nan flip and chosen to bat, Superchargers recovered themselves 14-3 aft Marie Kelly, Hollie Armitage and Phoebe Litchfield each saw their stumps surgery by Spirit bowlers.

Alice Davidson-Richards helped rebuild nan innings, putting connected partnerships of 30 pinch Annabel Sutherland and 39 pinch Georgia Wareham.

But Eva Gray dismissed Wareham and Bess Heath pinch her last 2 balls, and Davidson-Richards was bowled by Danielle Gibson from nan last shot of nan innings arsenic nan Superchargers vanished connected 99-7.

In nan reply, Linsey Smith removed Meg Lanning and Cordelia Griffith pinch successive deliveries earlier catching Georgia Redmayne from her ain bowling to time off Spirit 22-3.

That brought India world Deepti Sharma to nan crease alongside skipper Heather Knight and nan brace steadily built their partnership.

Knight started slowly, but accelerated towards nan close, smashing Wareham for six to decorativeness nan crippled pinch 14 balls to spare.

Spirit skipper Heather Knight: "Really relieved, Deepti was amazing, she really took nan unit off. We're successful a really bully spot now, we'll conscionable hold and spot what happens.

"I knew we'd drawback up beautiful speedy and they'd person to usage their champion bowlers first, which they did past we could target a fewer later on.

"It was a small spot of a tricky wicket. If you vessel straight, return gait disconnected and support nan stumps successful nan crippled it's really rather difficult to score. It's ever bully to deed nan winning runs pinch a six."

Superchargers bowler Kate Cross: "We didn't person capable runs connected nan board. We played against Manchester present and 140 was par, truthful a 100 was going to beryllium a reliable ask.

"On 4 occasions we've bowled teams retired for nether a hundred, we knew if we bowled good we mightiness person had a chance, but erstwhile you're only chasing a 100 they're capable to play their shots.

"We've had a necktie and a nary result, and that's travel backmost to wound us."

Four sides play their last matches of nan group shape arsenic Southern Brave look Welsh Fire (women's astatine 11:30 BST, men's astatine 15:00) and Trent Rockets play Oval Invincibles (women's astatine 15:00, men's astatine 18:30).

You will beryllium capable to watch nan Rocket-Invincibles unrecorded connected BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

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