The Hundred 2023: Birmingham Phoenix thrash London Spirit to end group stages

Birmingham Phoenix thrashed London Spirit by 77 runs successful the last crippled of The Hundred radical stages astatine Edgbaston.

Phoenix's 185-5 was acceptable up by Jamie Smith's 52 from 31 balls, and Ben Duckett's 47 disconnected 33.

All-rounder Moeen Ali besides added a quickfire 32 from 14 balls, portion New Zealand seamer Tim Southee took 3-23 connected his Hundred debut for Spirit.

Daryl Mitchell smashed 57 from 36 balls for Spirit, with opener Daniel Bell-Drummond the lone different batter to scope treble figures, scoring 23.

The effect is lone Phoenix's 2nd triumph of the contention but ensures they bash not decorativeness bottommost of the table, going supra Spirit and Northern Superchargers into sixth.

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• Will Smeed was retired to the archetypal shot of Phoenix's innings - besides Southee's archetypal shot for Spirit, arsenic helium was caught by Bell-Drummond.
• But Smith and Duckett led a accelerated betterment with a basal of 94 successful 54 balls, Smith hitting 5 fours and 3 sixes successful his knock.
• Phoenix mislaid 3 wickets for 11 runs arsenic they looked to accelerate astatine the death, but Benny Howell's cameo of 23 from 10 balls ensured they reached an imposing total.
• Milne reduced Spirit to 2-3 with his stunning opening burst, removing England Test opener Zak Crawley, Michael Pepper and Matthew Wade. He added Spirit skipper Dan Lawrence to his tally soon after.
• England's Liam Livingstone took 2-30 earlier Tom Helm bowled Mitchell to implicit triumph with 11 balls remaining.

'We'll travel backmost stronger' - what they said

Match Hero, Birmingham Phoenix's Adam Milne connected Sky Sports: "It's ever bully taking wickets up apical and it was unthinkable batting from Jamie Smith to get america to a bully total.

"It's been a disappointing play erstwhile you look astatine the squad and the idiosyncratic players but that's conscionable however short-form cricket works sometimes.

"We showed present what we're susceptible of and we'll travel backmost stronger adjacent year."