The Hundred 2023: Phoebe Litchfield's superb fifty sets up Northern Superchargers win over Oval Invincibles

Phoebe Litchfield made a superb 68 from 45 balls arsenic Northern Superchargers bushed Oval Invincibles successful The Hundred to determination to wrong a constituent of apical spot.

Invincibles struggled successful reply and contempt Cordelia Griffith's precocious cameo, they ended 14 abbreviated connected 129-5.

The two-time winners present look a conflict to scope the knockout stage.

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• Invincibles all-rounder Marizanne Kapp bowled the unsafe Jemimah Rodrigues with the 3rd shot of the lucifer and dismissed Marie Kelly soon afterwards to trim the Superchargers to 15-2 earlier Litchfield and Armitage deed backmost for the location side.
• Litchfield is present the starring run-scorer successful this year's women's contention with 148 runs successful 4 innings, 4 up of chap left-hander Smriti Mandhana of Southern Brave.
• Lauren Winfield-Hill rode her luck successful an innings of 19 from 14 balls. The Invincibles wicketkeeper-batter was dropped connected 1 by Grace Ballinger, who past bowled her connected 15. However, Ballinger had overstepped with the no-ball denying her a archetypal wicket successful The Hundred.
• Alice Capsey was dismissed successful unusual circumstances connected her 19th birthday. She was down the transportation to Georgia Wareham, missed and kept walking. However, wicketkeeper Bess Heath doubly fumbled the shot earlier completing the stumping and, had she tried, Capsey would apt person got backmost successful time.
• After winning the women's contention successful 2021 and 2022, the Invincibles person won conscionable 1 of their archetypal 4 games this run and are 3 points disconnected the apical 3 with 3 matches to play.

'We've gelled nicely' - what they said

Match Hero, Northern Superchargers' Phoebe Litchfield: "Me and the skipper, we spoke astir hitting the large pockets and moving hard and past the boundaries came our way. It was a large concern which we needed successful the middle.

"I americium not the biggest hitter. I can't truly deed a six implicit mid-wicket truthful I person to effort and enactment into the pockets and my purpose is to determination fielders circular the transportation and people 2 and fours erstwhile I can.

"I deliberation determination were 7 debutants successful our archetypal game. I deliberation we've gelled truly nicely."

• How Superchargers held disconnected Invincibles to boost knockout hopes

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