Capsey finds best form as Invincibles crush Phoenix

The Hundred women's competition, Edgbaston

Oval Invincibles 174-5 (100 balls): Capsey 52 (29); Baker 2-24

Birmingham Phoenix 152-6 (100 balls): Lister 33* (18); Wellington 2-27

Oval Invincibles won by 22 runs

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Alice Capsey recovered her champion shape arsenic Oval Invincibles hit Birmingham Phoenix by 22 runs to gain their first triumph of this year's women's Hundred.

The 21-year-old all-rounder, 4 years connected from making her master debut aged 16 successful this competition, struck 52 from only 29 balls arsenic nan Invincibles piled up 174-5 - their highest full successful nan women's Hundred and nan 3rd highest by immoderate team.

Capsey has struggled for shape successful nan past twelvemonth but built connected nan level laid by Lauren Winfield-Hill and Meg Lanning, who took 54 from nan powerplay - besides a women's Hundred record.

After Lanning fell for 36 and Winfield-Hill for 33, nan right-handed Capsey, pinch only 1 50 successful her past 32 T20 aliases Hundred innings, deed 8 fours and 1 pulled six.

Strong connected nan thrust and pinch her inventive reverse sweeps, she put connected 57 successful conscionable 29 balls pinch Paige Scholfield, who made 25 not retired from 16.

Requiring nan highest successful pursuit successful nan women's Hundred, Phoenix ne'er really threatened successful pursuit contempt 22 from Georgia Voll, 25 from Emma Lamb, 29 from skipper Ellyse Perry and Scotland world Ailsa Lister's awesome 31 not out.

Perry deed Australia team-mate Amanda-Jade Wellington for six but was caught down disconnected nan leg-spinner a shot later. Wellington besides ran retired England world Lamb astatine nan non-striker's extremity pinch a clever flick connected to nan stumps arsenic Phoenix ended connected 152-6.

The triumph intends Invincibles, champions successful nan first 2 years of nan Hundred, subordinate Phoenix connected 4 points aft 3 games, each having 1 triumph and 2 defeats.

Capsey is simply a merchandise of The Hundred, having made her sanction by scoring 50 successful her 2nd crippled astatine Lord's successful 2021.

Back connected this stage, she looked much assured and destructive than she has passim her caller struggles.

Capsey scored 79 and 57 for Surrey successful nan home 50-over title past period but has 5 single-figure scores successful her six T20 innings for England this year. She was near retired of England's one-day world bid conclusion by India entirely.

But, backmost to adjacent to her best, nan item of this innings was a reverse expanse lifted complete backward point.

Two balls earlier she offered a chance pinch nan aforesaid changeable connected 21 but nan powerfulness took nan shot done nan hands of Sterre Kalis.

"For maine it is specified a go-to changeable and thing I mislaid a spot of assurance successful for a while," Capsey told BBC Two. "To person that assurance to instrumentality astatine it, it was bully a fewer came disconnected today.

"From nan get-go I felt each of my options were on."

There are 4 games connected Wednesday - 2 men's and 2 women's.

Southern Brave big Northern Superchargers pinch nan women's lucifer starting astatine 11:30 BST and nan men's 15:00.

Welsh Fire besides big Manchester Originals successful nan women's title from 15:00 pinch nan men pursuing from 18:30.

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