Brave Beat Fire To Secure Fourth In Hundred Table

The Hundred men's competition, Utilita Bowl

Southern Brave 167-7 (100 balls): Roy 70 (39); Payne 2-17

Welsh Fire 163-6 (100 balls): Kohler-Cadmore 84 (46); Overton 3-22

Brave won by 4 runs

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Southern Brave vanished 4th successful The Hundred pinch a four-run triumph complete bottommost broadside Welsh Fire successful Southampton.

Chasing 168, Tom Kohler-Cadmore scored 84 from 46 balls, nan third-highest people successful this season's competition, but was dismissed connected nan 98th shot of nan innings arsenic Fire fell conscionable short.

Jason Roy powered Brave's innings, striking 70 from 39 deliveries arsenic nan location broadside closed connected 167-7, earlier Craig Overton had Fire openers Stephen Eskinazi and Steve Smith caught wrong nan first 5 balls of nan chase.

Kohler-Cadmore, who struck 7 sixes and 3 fours, dragged his broadside backmost into contention, putting connected an 81-run fifth-wicket business pinch Ben Kellaway.

He cleared nan ropes disconnected Jordan Thompson to put his broadside successful nan container spot needing 7 from 3 balls, but was bowled from nan pursuing delivery.

The Brave all-rounder only conceded singles from his remaining deliveries to adjacent retired nan match.

The consequence intends some Welsh Fire sides decorativeness bottommost of their respective standings, aft nan women's broadside lost to nan aforesaid opponents earlier successful nan day.

In nan group stage's last match, Brave mislaid openers Toby Albert and James Vince successful nan abstraction of 4 balls aft being put into bat, and saw James Coles bowled by Kellaway for 7 to time off them 34-3 soon aft nan powerplay.

However, Roy, who doubly deed back-to-back sixes successful an innings afloat of powerful strokeplay, put connected partnerships of 55 pinch Leus du Plooy and 38 pinch Laurie Evans to push Brave towards a beardown total.

Roy and Evans fell on pinch Michael Bracewell for nan costs of conscionable 2 runs arsenic Brave wobbled, but Jordan Thompson and Craig Overton added 38 from nan past 18 balls of nan innings, runs that would beryllium decisive.