Livingstone Takes Down Rashid To Secure Thrilling Win

The Hundred men's competition, Edgbaston

Oval Invincibles 180-8 (100 balls): Ferreira 63 (29); Boult 2-20

Birmingham Phoenix 182-6 (98 balls): Livingstone 69* (27); Mahmood 3-28

Birmingham Phoenix won by 4 wickets

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Liam Livingstone brilliantly took down Rashid Khan to lead Birmingham Phoenix location successful a thrilling and improbable pursuit of 181 and hit defending champions Oval Invincibles successful nan men's Hundred.

The Phoenix, beaten successful some of their first 2 fixtures, needed 61 runs from 24 balls pinch six wickets near earlier skipper Livingstone struck 5 balls from superstar Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid for 26 runs, pinch 3 sixes and 2 fours.

With 22 required from nan past 10 he thrashed Tom Curran for different 2 sixes to put Phoenix connected nan brink.

Then, pinch 3 to take sides from nan past five, Saqib Mahmood took 2 wickets successful 2 balls but Benny Howell drove a 4 and Livingstone vanished 69 not retired from 27 - Phoenix completing nan third-highest pursuit successful The Hundred pinch 4 wickets and 2 balls to spare.

Rashid's last figures - 0-59 from 20 balls - are nan astir costly successful nan tourney arsenic nan Invincibles' winning commencement to nan tourney ended.

Donovan Ferreira had seemingly put them successful power by hitting a sadistic 63 from 29 balls to assistance nan Invincibles to 180-8.

Instead, Livingstone, backed up by 51 from 29 by opener Will Smeed, produced 1 of nan champion knocks successful The Hundred, sealing 1 of nan much improbable victories.

There are 4 games connected Wednesday - 2 men's and 2 women's.

Southern Brave big Northern Superchargers pinch nan women's lucifer starting astatine 11:30 BST and nan men's 15:00.

Welsh Fire besides big Manchester Originals successful nan women's title from 15:00 pinch nan men pursuing from 18:30.

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