The Hundred 2023: Jamie Smith helps Birmingham Phoenix beat Oval Invincibles for first win

Smith and Moeen shared a concern of 75 from 46 balls

Jamie Smith's maiden 50 successful The Hundred helped Birmingham Phoenix bushed leaders Oval Invincbles by 41 runs for their archetypal triumph of the season.

Chris Woakes past acceptable the code connected his Hundred debut successful an awesome bowling show by the hosts.

The antecedently unbeaten Invincibles were 27-3 aft 32 balls and did not retrieve earlier being dismissed for 119.

Number 3 Jordan Cox had to discontinue wounded connected 5 aft a nasty stroke connected the manus erstwhile facing accelerated bowler Adam Milne, who besides had England planetary Will Jacks caught for two.

England all-rounder Woakes, playing aft a interruption pursuing the Ashes, nicked disconnected the unsafe Heinrich Klaasen for a three-ball duck.

Phoenix began the lucifer bottommost of the array but present determination level with sixth-placed London Spirit connected 4 points. The Invincibles enactment apical connected 7 with 4 teams beneath them connected five.

The squad that finishes apical of the radical signifier goes consecutive into the final, with 2nd and 3rd competing successful an eliminator for the accidental to articulation them.

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What other bash you request to know?

• Right-hander Smith, a subordinate tipped for an England call-up successful the future, struck six fours and 3 sixes, including 1 glorious six backmost implicit the caput of Surrey team-mate Sam Curran
• Invincibles wicketkeeper Sam Billings cleverly ran retired Moeen arsenic helium tried to sneak a run. Billings repeated the instrumentality to tally retired Chris Benjamin for 7 from 2 balls soon afterwards
• In his archetypal Hundred innings, Woakes was caught astatine heavy mid-wicket for a aureate duck attempting to deed the penultimate shot of the Phoenix innings for a boundary.
• Impressive opening duo Woakes and Milne conceded lone 12 from the archetypal 20 balls, earlier Australia bowler Kane Richardson finished with 4-32 for the Phoenix.
• Invincibles accelerated bowler Gus Atkinson missed the lucifer arsenic a precaution aft experiencing soreness successful his pectoral area.

'He truly stepped up' - what they said

Birmingham Phoenix skipper Moeen Ali connected Jamie Smith: "We person heard batch of astir him but haven't seen a lot. We gave him the accidental to bat 3 and helium truly stepped up today. He was superb tonight.

"[Woakes] is simply a due plaything bowler and a spot aged schoolhouse with the mode helium bowls. He is large to person due to the fact that adjacent erstwhile helium goes for runs helium keeps calm."

England batter Ollie Pope, speaking to Sky Sports astir Surrey team-mate Smith: "It was precise mature knock. He didn't conscionable spell from shot one.

"He gave himself a accidental and picked his targets. It was a truly clever sound - thing excessively funky but helium struck the shot cleanly."

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