The Hundred: All you must know forward of Saturday’s Kia Oval eliminators and Sunday’s Lord’s finals | Cricket Information

The 2024 winners of The Hundred can be topped at Lord’s on Sunday as the boys’s and ladies’s competitions come to an in depth.

Welsh Hearth Girls are into the ultimate after ending first within the league section, whereas defending males’s champions Oval Invincibles are again within the trophy recreation after additionally topping the desk.

Hearth and Invincibles will now face the winners of Saturday’s eliminators at The Kia Oval, so who’s collaborating in these, which gamers have impressed within the event to date, and how will you comply with the conclusion throughout Sky Sports activities?

Right here is all you must know…

Who’s collaborating within the eliminators?

The ladies’s eliminator can be a London derby as Oval Invincibles – champions throughout the primary two seasons of The Hundred earlier than they didn’t make the knockout stage final yr – tackle London Spirit, after the perimeters completed second and third respectively within the desk.

The males’s eliminator sees Birmingham Phoenix up towards Southern Courageous, with Phoenix securing second spot by beating Manchester Originals in a rain-trimmed recreation on Thursday night time, knocking out Andrew Flintoff’s Northern Superchargers within the course of – Superchargers ended up beneath Courageous on internet run-rate.

How can I comply with the eliminators and finals throughout Sky Sports activities?

All 4 matches this weekend can be reside on Sky Sports activities Cricket, with each ladies’s video games additionally out there by way of a free stream on skysports.com, the Sky Sports activities App and the Sky Sports activities Cricket YouTube channel.

Additionally, you will be capable to comply with reside blogs of all 4 matches on Sky Sports activities’ digital platforms, with textual content updates, pundit evaluation and in-play video clips.

Saturday August 17

• Girls’s eliminator – Oval Invincibles vs London Spirit (1.45pm on air, 2.15pm first ball)
• Males’s eliminator – Birmingham Phoenix vs Southern Courageous (5.30pm on air, 6pm first ball)

Sunday August 18

• Girls’s closing – Welsh Hearth vs TBC (1.45pm on air, 2.15pm first ball)
• Males’s closing – Oval Invincibles vs TBC (5.30pm on air, 6pm first ball)

Who has starred for the ladies’s groups in 2024?

Welsh Hearth (first in group stage)

• Main run-scorers: Hayley Matthews (176), Sophia Dunkley (150), Tammy Beaumont (143)
• Highest rating in an innings: Hayley Matthews (78no from 46 balls, vs London Spirit)
• Main wicket-takers: Jess Jonassen (12), Hayley Matthews (11), Freya Davies (10)
• Finest bowling figures in an innings: Hayley Matthews (4-14, vs Southern Courageous)

Oval Invincibles (second in group stage)

• Main run-scorers: Alice Capsey (192), Paige Scholfield (185), Marizanne Kapp (181)
• Highest rating in an innings: Paige Scholfield (71 off 40 balls, vs Birmingham Phoenix
• Main wicket-takers: Marizanne Kapp (10), Sophia Smale (9), Amanda-Jade Wellington (9)
• Finest bowling figures in an innings: Marizanne Kapp (4-11, vs London Spirit)

London Spirit (third in group stage)

• Main run-scorers: Heather Knight (211), Deepti Sharma (196), Meg Lanning (144)
• Highest rating in an innings: Georgia Redmayne (66no from 59 balls, vs Manchester Originals)
• Main wicket-takers: Sarah Glenn (9), Deepti Sharma (7)
• Finest bowling figures in an innings: Sarah Glenn (4-22, vs Birmingham Phoenix)

Who has starred for the boys’s groups in 2024?

Oval Invincibles (first in group stage)

• Main run-scorers: Jordan Cox (189), Dawid Malan (182), Sam Curran (176)
• Highest rating in an innings: Sam Curran (68 off 38 balls, vs Manchester Originals)
• Main wicket-takers: Sam Curran (17), Adam Zampa (17)
• Finest bowling figures in an innings: Sam Curran (5-16, vs London Spirit)

Birmingham Phoenix (second in group stage)

• Main run-scorers: Ben Duckett (262), Jacob Bethell (149), Moeen Ali (126)
• Highest rating in an innings: Ben Duckett (92 off 53 balls, vs Southern Courageous)
• Main wicket-takers: Tim Southee (14), Sean Abbott (10), Adam Milne (9)
• Finest bowling figures in an innings: Tim Southee (5-12, vs Trent Rockets)

Southern Courageous (third in group stage)

• Main run-scorers: James Vince (357), Kieron Pollard (155), Alex Davies (132)
• Highest rating in an innings: James Vince (90no off 47 balls, vs Birmingham Phoenix)
• Main wicket-takers: Chris Jordan (14), Tymal Mills (13)
• Finest bowling figures in an innings: Tymal MIlls (4-16, vs Welsh Hearth)

How have the defending champions carried out?

The boys’s ones – Oval Invincibles – have carried out very effectively certainly, reaching the ultimate but once more thanks largely to Sam Curran’s kind with bat and ball; the England all-rounder plundering 176 runs and taking 17 wickets, together with a hat-trick.

Nevertheless, final yr’s ladies’s champions Southern Courageous had a mare, shedding six of their eight matches and failing to win at dwelling as they missed out on the ultimate for the primary time of their historical past, having completed runners-up in 2021 and 2022.

Watch The Hundred eliminators reside on Sky Sports activities from 1.45pm on Saturday after which the finals on the identical channel from 1.45pm on Sunday. The ladies’s matches begin at 2.15pm every day and the boys’s fixtures at 6pm. You can too stream the motion with NOW.