Cox Thrills As Invincibles Hit Record Hundred Score

The Hundred men's competition, The Kia Oval

Oval Invincibles 226-4 (100 balls): Cox 86* (29)

Welsh Fire 143 (93 balls): Bairstow 50 (28)

Oval Invincibles won by 83 runs

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Jordan Cox lit up The Hundred arsenic Oval Invincibles smashed nan grounds for nan competition's highest full by piling up 226-4 successful an 83-run triumph complete Welsh Fire.

Cox collapsed 86 not retired from conscionable 29 successful a thrilling show of six hitting astatine The Oval and nan Invincibles comfortably passed nan erstwhile grounds people - Manchester Originals' 208-5 against Northern Superchargers successful 2022.

England right-hander Cox deed 10 of nan innings' 17 sixes successful beforehand of a jubilant location crowd.

Openers Tawanda Muyeye and Will Jacks laid a level of 76 successful 39 balls earlier Cox, aft a dependable start, exploded into life by hitting 4 sixes successful 1 group of 5 balls from Hundred debutant Ajeet Singh Dale.

The seamer past dropped Cox connected 45 but nan only further catching opportunities came for those successful nan stands.

Cox put connected 97 successful only 39 balls pinch Sam Curran who made 34, while Jacks' 38 from 28 was nan adjacent highest score.

Invincibles' power continued into nan pursuit arsenic Stephen Eskinazi was caught disconnected Jason Behrendorff's first shot and Cox past produced 1 much typical infinitesimal by clinging connected to a spiralling drawback moving backmost from mid-on to disregard Steve Smith for seven.

Fire were bowled retired for 143, making it nan third-biggest conclusion successful The Hundred, though by hitting 8 further sixes they ensured nan lucifer featured nan astir sixes successful 1 lucifer successful nan competition.

Two-time defending champions Invincibles subordinate Superchargers and Trent Rockets connected 12 points astatine nan apical of nan array but spell apical courtesy of their awesome nett run-rate.

The 17 sixes deed by Invincibles is nan astir successful a Hundred innings crossed its 4 erstwhile seasons. Cox's 10 besides equalled nan individual grounds held by Liam Livingstone.

Remarkably, he took only 8 runs from his first 8 balls earlier flogging Singh Dale complete nan limb broadside for his first 3 boundaries.

A wide and a dot shot followed aft which Cox, who was left retired of England's white-ball squads connected Friday, played an audacious reverse scoop complete 3rd man to nan seamer's last ball.

From location nan hitting was relentless. If Invincibles bowled short Cox whipped nan shot complete good limb aliases powered it complete other cover. When nan seamers went afloat they were deed astatine a strike-rate of 308.

"None of nan bowlers seemed to beryllium capable to calm themselves down and it multiplied," erstwhile England bowler Steve Finn told BBC Two. "The measurement Jordan Cox played was freakish.

"It wasn't bludgeoning. It was timing nan ball."

After Curran was caught, Donovan Ferreira emerged and collapsed his first shot for six.

The 200 was reached successful 91 balls and erstwhile Tom Curran flicked nan 96th for 4 a caller highest Hundred people had been reached.

There was still clip for 2 much Cox sixes - 1 a glorious checked thrust - but Muyeye possibly summed up his broadside best.

"For maine it feels for illustration playing for [Michael Jordan's six-time NBA winners] Chicago Bulls successful nan 90s, successful position of cricket," he said. "That's really bully everyone is."

The item of Sunday's action is nan cross-Pennine derby betwixt Manchester Originals and Northern Superchargers.

The women's crippled astatine Old Trafford originates astatine 11:00 BST and nan men's 14:30.

Birmingham Phoenix besides big London Spirit connected Sunday.

The women's crippled is astatine 14:30 and past men's 18:00.

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