Crawley in form again as Superchargers beat Spirit

The Hundred men's competition, Lord's

London Spirit 135-3 (100 balls): Pope 52* (38) Smith 41 (27); Lawes 2-34

Northern Superchargers 138-2 (82 balls): Crawley 55* (38), Lawrence 37 (22)

Superchargers won by 8 wickets

Scorecard. Table

Zak Crawley continued his beardown shape arsenic Northern Superchargers reclaimed their spot successful nan apical 3 of The Hundred men's array pinch a comfortable eight-wicket triumph complete London Spirit astatine Lord's.

Having been pushed down to 4th by Southern Brave's tense triumph astatine Welsh Fire earlier successful nan day, Superchargers moved backmost into 3rd by easing to a pursuit of 136 pinch 18 balls to spare.

Sharing partnerships of 63 pinch Dawid Malan and 56 pinch Dan Lawrence, Crawley batted done for 55 not retired - his 2nd 50 of nan tourney which takes him apical of its' run-scoring charts.

England's Test opener, who has said he remains keen to play crossed each formats astatine world level, deed 4 elegant fours successful nan first six balls of nan pursuit and 2 sixes complete nan leg-side arsenic he kicked for home.

"I effort to support nan fundamentals nan aforesaid but I expect much shots than I do successful a red-ball game," Crawley told Sky Sports.

"That's what I person done otherwise this twelvemonth and it has paid off."

That made ray activity of knocking disconnected Spirit's 135-3 arsenic nan visitors, captained by England white-ball skipper Harry Brook and coached by England fable Andrew Flintoff, cannily restricted Spirit connected a slow and tricky pitch.

Jamie Smith deed 4 fours and a six but scoring was a struggle aft he fell, pinch Ollie Pope needing 38 balls for his 52 not out. Only 1 bound came successful nan last 33 balls of Spirit's innings.

Spirit are not mathematically retired of nan title for a top-three decorativeness but must triumph their last 2 games and dream a bid of results spell their way.

Superchargers' adjacent lucifer is against top-of-the-table Oval Invincibles astatine Headingley connected Saturday.

The Hundred men's competition, Sophia Gardens

Southern Brave 129-8 (100 balls): Cartwright 51* (19); Henry 2-5

Welsh Fire 125-8 (100 balls): Kohler-Cadmore 25 (28); Archer 3-20

Brave won by 4 runs

Scorecard. Table

Earlier Southern Brave revived their Hundred run aft 3 consecutive defeats pinch a important four-run triumph complete Welsh Fire astatine Sophia Gardens.

The crippled was successful nan balance, pinch Fire needing 16 from nan past 10 balls, but Tom Kohler-Cadmore was caught disconnected James Coles for 25 to dent nan hosts' hopes.

Matt Henry past needed a six from nan last shot to triumph but only managed a azygous arsenic Chris Jordan held his nerve, pinch Fire finishing 125-8 and Jofra Archer taking 3-20.

Hilton Cartwright's unbeaten 51 disconnected conscionable 19 balls proved nan quality aft Brave's innings had been floundering astatine 71-5 from 71 balls erstwhile he came successful astatine number seven.

Cartwright pummelled 5 sixes successful his sound arsenic Brave recovered to 129-8 connected a slow aboveground against Fire, whose hopes of qualifying for nan knockouts are all-but over, pinch conscionable 1 triumph from 5 matches.

Fire started positively pinch nan shot arsenic New Zealand seamer Matt Henry bowled nan second-most economical spell successful The Hundred men's compettion pinch 2-5 - Brave crawling to 18-1 aft nan powerplay.

James Vince's 29 was nan only notable publication from nan apical bid arsenic Chris Green and David Payne besides took 2 wickets each for Fire.

In contrast, Fire made an explosive commencement pinch 46-3 from their first 25 balls arsenic Jonny Bairstow started aggressively, whacking 22 from 10 balls earlier he was dismissed by Craig Overton.

Archer past removed Steve Smith for 13 earlier adding Luke Wells and Paul Walter to his tally arsenic Fire's mediate bid buckled nether nan pressure.

Fire stay bottommost of nan array and are each but eliminated.

Oval Invincibles and Trent Rockets will some beryllium hoping to bounce backmost from defeats successful their erstwhile matches, arsenic nan women's sides play astatine The Oval astatine 15:00 BST.

It's past a apical of nan array title successful nan men's game, which follows astatine 18:30 BST.

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