{"id":18935,"date":"2025-08-25T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/the-hundred-2025-results-oval-invincibles-effectively-seal-place-in-final-by-beating-london-spirit\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:32:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:32:49","slug":"the-hundred-2025-results-oval-invincibles-effectively-seal-place-in-final-by-beating-london-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/the-hundred-2025-results-oval-invincibles-effectively-seal-place-in-final-by-beating-london-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2025 results: Oval Invincibles effectively seal place in final by beating London Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Invincibles appear to have every base covered as they hunt a third successive title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as Cox, who brutally flogged anything short over the leg side, opener Will Jacks also hit three sixes in a 27-ball 45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After both fell, powerful finisher Donovan Ferreira crashed 24 from just nine balls to emphatically seal the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While Cox is 63 runs clear at the top of the run-scoring chart, Ferreira has the tournament&#8217;s best strike-rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batting is their stronger suit, but the variety of their pace attack always gives skipper Sam Billings options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leg-spinner Nathan Sowter has performed admirably as the sole spinner since Rashid Khan left for international duty with Afghanistan last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here he took 2-23 after Jamie Smith gave Spirit a fast start with 28 from 15, helping squeeze the scoring before 31 from 18 by Overton boosted the score.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sowter may well be joined by Australia spinner Adam Zampa for the final, with Invincibles in talks with the 33-year-old over a one-game deal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That would make their opponent&#8217;s task tougher still.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cr74x7dyj2vo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invincibles appear to have every base covered as they hunt a third successive title. As well as Cox, who brutally flogged anything short over the leg side, opener Will Jacks also hit three sixes in a 27-ball 45. After both fell, powerful finisher Donovan Ferreira crashed 24 from just nine balls to emphatically seal the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18937,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18935\/revisions\/18937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}