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ABC News
11-08-2025
- Sport
- ABC News
Grace Harris continues to dominate the Hundred as Australian women top tournament run charts
Grace Harris has steered London Spirit to victory in the Hundred Women for the third match in three, maintaining the defending champions' 100 per cent start in the English white-ball franchise competition. In the tournament's opening match, she scored an unbeaten 42-ball 89; in Spirit's second she bowled the death over, successfully defending six runs with two to spare; and now she has hit an unbeaten 32-ball 50 to guide Spirit to victory at Old Trafford. Chasing Manchester Originals' 7-122, Spirit won by three wickets with two of their 100 balls remaining, thanks to a late flurry of boundaries by the Queenslander. "I'm delighted with how I'm going," Harris said. "I think a lot of the principles that I've been working on within my game are paying off, and I just keep summing up conditions and whenever I'm injected into the game, I'm seeing what impact I can have." Put in to bat, Originals were 2-10 off 12 balls, including Kathryn Bryce out to a brilliant leg-side catch by wicketkeeper Georgia Redmayne, standing up to pacer Tara Norris. Skipper Beth Mooney (26 off 20) counter-attacked creating a platform for West Indies' Deandra Dottin (36 off 30) to lift the home side to a potentially defendable total. Kira Chathli got the reply off to a good start with 34 off 30 after Redmayne perished for 11, but Spirit slid to 5-97, needing 26 runs off 16 balls. Harris brought that down to nine from eight with a pair of sixes but Bryce took two wickets in two only for Sarah Glenn to edge, then drive boundaries to ensure Harris's half-century was not in vain. Harris is now the highest run-scorer in the competition with 157 followed by fellow Australians Meg Lanning (141) and Mooney (97). She also has the highest strike-rate (178.4) followed by another Aussie in Ash Gardner (175), and most sixes (nine) followed by Lanning (six). Meanwhile in the men's Hundred, David Warner made his second successive half-century but this time failed to take London Spirit to victory. Having hit a 45-ball 70 not out on Saturday, the former Test opener went one better at Old Trafford, but his 51-ball 71 could not help his side overhaul Manchester Originals' 6-163, closing on 6-153. AAP
India Today
30-06-2025
- Sport
- India Today
RCB head coach joins Southern Brave for Hundred Women's 2025
Luke Williams has been appointed head coach of Southern Brave for the 2025 edition of The Hundred Women's competition. He takes over from the legendary Charlotte Edwards, who recently assumed the role of head coach of the England women's team, replacing Jon had served as Edwards' assistant at Southern Brave since the inaugural season of the Women's Hundred. Under their leadership, the Brave finished as runners-up in 2021 and 2022, before clinching the title in also enjoyed success in the Women's Premier League (WPL), guiding Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) to the title in 2024. He has been RCB's head coach since replacing Ben Sawyer in 2023. "It's a privilege to take charge of Southern Brave this year from Charlotte Edwards,' Williams was quoted as saying in a statement. Luke Williams takes over as Southern Brave's head coach, replacing Charlotte Edwards! He coached Adelaide Strikers (WBBL) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (WPL) to their maiden championships. #CricketTwitter Female Cricket (@imfemalecricket) June 30, 2025'Having worked with the team since for a number of years, we have an excellent group of players and staff and recruited well in the draft earlier this year, so hopefully we can get back to Finals Day and lift the trophy this summer,' Williams added. advertisementHe also enjoyed a successful stint in the Women's Big Bash League (WBBL), guiding the Adelaide Strikers to back-to-back championships in 2022 and addition to Williams' appointment, the Brave have brought in former England men's batter Marcus Trescothick as their new batting coach. He replaces Jimmy Connors, who will be coaching Hampshire in the Men's One-Day Cup this Brave had a torrid time last season as they finished at the bottom of the points table with three points after wins in one out of eight matches. Southern Brave squad for Women's Hundred 2025 Laura Wolvaardt, Danni Wyatt-Hodge, Maia Bouchier, Lauren Bell, Freya Kemp, Georgia Adams, Tilly Corteen-Coleman, Rhianna Southby, Sophie Devine, Chloe Tryon, Mady Villiers, Josie Groves, Phoebe Graham- Ends
