Northern Superchargers v Manchester Originals at Headingley August 4th ‘The Hundred’

Neil Whitaker reports

HARRY  Brook extended his  winning run as captain of the Northern Supercharges  to three as they beat the Manchester Originals by 14 runs at Headingley


Brook, who hit 58, said: “It’s been good.” The Supercharges made 167 in their hundred balls with Brook’s   50 coming  from 27 balls when he  glanced Sikander Raza to the fine leg boundary.


He  showed his intent from the moment he came in when he drove  Sikander Raza straight for and a four and two balls later he scooped him   over stumper Phil Salt’s head for a four.  Tom Hartley was pulled  to the square leg boundary by Brook  and he drove the next ball straight for another boundary. With Adam Hose, Brook added 59 for the fourth wicket as the both found the boundary regularly and easily.  


Brook said: “It's such a good outfield here that  it’s hard to stop them from scoring runs. The ball either goes for two or four. At the halfway stage we felt that we were 10 or 20 runs short.  They had a good start but the lads  just stuck to our plan.  I thought that the way  the lads fought back was unbelievable.”



Hose sliced a drive off Usama Mir that raced to the third man boundary evading three fielders as they tried to stop it.  Then he  smashed Usama Mir over the long-on boundary for a massive six. With hardly any power he lofted Usama Mir over long-on into the Howard stand for another six. He top edged a sweep off the next ball but the partnership was broken with the next ball when Max Holden ran round the fine leg boundary and dived forward to take the catch.


The Originals eventually got rid of  Brook with a controversial dismissal.  He was given out on 58 when he  flat batted  Farooqi to Scott Currie who dived forward from long-off.  The umpires reviewed it and from the first replay it looked like Currie had grounded it but eventually the umpires gave him out.


167 seemed a long way off when the Supercharges, who had been put into bat,lost their first wicket to the first ball of their innings when Ollie Robinson was adjudged leg before to the Afghanistan left arm paceman Farooqi. Robinson reviewed it and the replay showed him to be out.


NIcholas Pooran top edged a pull off Paul Walter and the ball went up in the air and Walter waited for it in his follow through but after an eternity when Pooran decided to run after he had stood the ball fell into the hands of the tall left arm seamer.  Despite juggling with it he eventually caught it.

  

Opener Graham Clark hit 33 and added 50 with Brook before he drove Usama Mir gently into the hands of Currie  on the long off boundary.


For the Originals Farooqi was the pick of their bowlers with two for 14 from his 20 balls.


In their chase Matty Hurst top scored with 78 as he and Salt put on 90 fir the first wicket but they never seemed to be thumping the ball but they kept the scoreboard moving.


Hurst hit Reece Topley for two sixes: the first was over long-on and he pulled the second over square leg.  He hit consecutive fours off Adil Rashid: the first he underedged a pull that ran behind stumper Pooran and the second he pulled to the mid-wicket boundary. Then he helped   Ben Dwarshuis over the fine leg boundary for a six.


Salt drove Rashid for a straight six into the Howard stand but their opening partnership was broken in  a careless way. Hurst cut Matty Potts to Rashid at backward point and set off for a single. Salt got to the other end but didn’t ground his bat.


Feeling pedestrian compared to Brook, Hurst’s 50 came off only 29 balls.  He flatbatted Rashid to the long-off boundary. The big hitting Walter drove Dwarshuis straight to Hose on the long-boundary as the Originals lost three wickets for 17 runs. Jamie Overton went back to cut Santner but the ball was too close to him and he edged it to Pooran. Wayne Madsen tried to sweep the next ball and was given out leg before.  He reviewed it and the replay showed he was out.


Sikander Raza did well to dig a yorker out from Potts and Hurst called Sikander Raza for a single but Hurst couldn’t beat Pooran direct hit, the Originals chase for their first victory looked over but Holden smashed Dwarshuis to the long-off boundary but two balls later he he bottom edged a drive and found Potts diving forward on the long-on boundary.


With 20 needed off 5 balls but  they only got five,

SCORECARD