The Hundred 2024 - schedule, England players & how to follow

The 4th version of The Hundred starts connected Tuesday, 23 July pinch nan champion players successful England again joined by a big of overseas talent.

Southern Brave and Oval Invincibles are nan defending champions successful nan women's and men's title respectively.

Here's everything you request to cognize astir nan 2024 cricket tourney including nan schedule, erstwhile England players will beryllium disposable and really to watch and travel connected nan BBC.

The Hundred is simply a white-ball cricket tourney designed by nan England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to pull much finance and divers audiences to nan game.

It was owed to motorboat successful 2020 but was delayed for a twelvemonth by nan Covid-19 pandemic.

There are 8 teams successful nan competition, each representing cities of nan UK, alternatively than nan accepted region structure.

The 8 teams are: Birmingham Phoenix, London Spirit, Manchester Originals, Northern Superchargers, Oval Invincibles, Southern Brave, Trent Rockets and Welsh Fire.

The men's and women's tournaments tally simultaneously and each lucifer sees some squad bat for 100 balls, pinch nan highest people winning.

Each bowler tin vessel a maximum of 20 balls each, and they tin vessel them successful 5 aliases 10-ball sets.

A powerplay - a conception of nan innings wherever nan fielding broadside are only allowed 2 fielders connected nan bound - lasts 25 balls per innings.

Matches are designed to past for two-and-a-half hours successful total, making it nan fastest format of nan crippled played successful nan UK and much charismatic to TV broadcasters.

The 2024 tourney starts connected Tuesday, 23 July pinch Oval Invincibles hosting Birmingham Phoenix.

In nan group stages, which tally until 15 August, each broadside plays 8 matches. They play six teams erstwhile but their section rival twice.

The section pairings are Phoenix and Rockets, Spirit and Invincibles, Originals and Superchargers, arsenic good arsenic Brave and Fire.

The apical broadside aft nan group stages qualifies automatically for nan final.

The 2nd and third-placed teams meet astatine Kia Oval connected 17 August successful nan Eliminator, pinch nan victor going done to nan last nan pursuing day.

The last takes spot connected Sunday, 18 August astatine Lord's.

The women's last will commencement astatine 14:15 BST, pinch nan men's from 18:00.

Southern Brave yet won their first women's title successful 2023 having been beaten by Oval Invincibles successful nan last of nan first 2 editions.

The men's tourney has had a different victor successful each of nan 3 editions.

Southern Brave won nan inaugural tournament, earlier Trent Rockets and Oval Invincibles were successful.

Manchester Originals person been beaten successful nan past 2 men's finals.

England's players will beryllium disposable passim nan women's title pinch Heather Knight (Spirit), Nat Sciver-Brunt (Rockets) and Sophie Ecclestone (Originals) among those group to skipper their sides.

The tourney will besides springiness players a chance to impressment and nail down spots up of nan Women's T20 World Cup taking spot successful Bangladesh successful October.

However, teenage left-arm seamer Mahika Gaur has been ruled retired pinch a broadside strain truthful won't beryllium capable to push her lawsuit astatine Originals.

In nan men's title nan likes of Jos Buttler (Originals), Phil Salt (Originals), Moeen Ali (Phoenix), Liam Livingstone (Phoenix), Jonny Bairstow (Fire) and Jofra Archer (Brave) are group to characteristic aft appearing for England successful June's T20 World Cup.

England Test skipper Ben Stokes (Superchargers) will beryllium disposable to erstwhile all-rounder Andrew Flintoff for 4 matches, pinch nan different batters - Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope (both Spirit), Joe Root (Rockets), Harry Brook (Superchargers), Ben Duckett and Jamie Smith (both Phoenix) - will beryllium disposable nan 3rd Test against West Indies finishes connected 30 July.

Brook will skipper Superchargers, while Crawley, Pope, Duckett and Smith will dream to push their white-ball aspirations successful nan tournaments.

Chris Woakes (Phoenix) will beryllium disposable from 6 August, while Gus Atkinson (Invincibles), Dillon Pennington and Matt Potts' (both Superchargers) readiness will beryllium decided aft nan Test bid concludes.

Former England coach Chris Silverwood will assistance Tom Moody astatine Oval Invincibles, pinch James Foster taking a domiciled astatine London Spirit.

A big of players from all-conquering Australia are group to play successful nan women's tourney this year, including erstwhile skipper Meg Lanning.

The 32-year-old retired from world cricket past November having guided Australia to 4 T20 World titles and 1 50-over success.

She is owed to play for London Spirit successful her first quality successful nan tournament, while compatriots Beth Mooney (Originals) and Ash Gardner (Rockets) are among nan others involved.

India's Smriti Mandhana (Brave) and Richa Ghosh (Phoenix), South Africa's Marizanne Kapp (Invincibles) and Laura Wolvaardt (Originals) are different large sanction overseas players featuring successful nan women's tournament.

In nan men's competition, each eyes will beryllium connected leg-spinner Rashid Khan astatine Rockets, while his Afghanistan team-mate Fazalhaq Farooqi will play for Originals, having vanished arsenic nan joint-leading wicket-taker successful nan T20 World Cup past month.

Andre Russell (Spirit), Nicholas Pooran (Superchargers) and Kieron Pollard (Brave) are among a beardown West Indies contingent taking part, while Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa returns to Invincibles.

As pinch erstwhile editions location are nary Indian players successful nan men's tournament, pinch their players only allowed to characteristic successful nan Indian Premier League.

You will beryllium capable to travel nan tourney crossed nan BBC.

There will beryllium ball-by-ball commentary connected each lucifer crossed BBC Sounds, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and nan BBC Sport website and app.

There will besides beryllium 15 matches unrecorded connected BBC Two and BBC iPlayer. Every crippled is unrecorded connected Sky Sports.

The BBC Sport website and app will person reports connected each crippled passim nan tourney and regular video highlights of nan champion moments.

There will beryllium unrecorded matter commentary and in-play video clips connected nan Eliminator and final.

The BBC Cricket Instagram, external relationship will besides person each nan champion moments, positive you tin support up to day pinch nan title via nan BBC Cricket WhatsApp channel, external.

The Hundred 2024 - BBC TV schedule

Times are BST and taxable to change

Men's competition:

23 July: Oval Invincibles v Birmingham Phoenix (18:30)

25 July: Manchester Originals v Welsh Fire (18:30)

1 August: London Spirit v Welsh Fire (15:00)

3 August: Birmingham Phoenix v Southern Brave (14:30)

4 August: London Spirit v Oval Invincibles (14:30)

8 August: Welsh Fire v Northern Superchargers (15:00)

10 August: Southern Brave v Trent Rockets (14:30)

13 August: Northern Superchargers v London Spirit (18:30)

14 August: Trent Rockets v Oval Invincibles (18:30)

18 August: Final - TBC v TBC (18:00)

Women's competition:

23 July: Oval Invincibles v Birmingham Phoenix (14:45)

25 July: Manchester Originals v Welsh Fire (15:00)

13 August: Northern Superchargers v London Spirit (15:00)

17 August: Eliminator - TBC v TBC (14:15)

18 August: Final - TBC v TBC (14:15)