Joe Clarke, Tom Banton and Adam Zampa picked up for the men’s team
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Tammy Beaumont to captain the women’s side at Sophia Gardens alongside World Cup winners Rachael Haynes an Annabel SutherlandThe Hundred announces more activities and food options inside grounds for the 2022 competition
Welsh Fire snapped up star bat
Ahead of today’s Hundred Men’s Draft, London Spirit have announced the appointment of Trevor Bayliss as Interim Men’s Head Coach following the tragic passing of Shane Warne.
Further planned tributes to Shane will be announced shortly as the game looks at ways to remember one of the greatest ever cricketers and personalities.
Bayliss will link up with Eoin Morgan once again after the pair fa
The countdown to The Hundred is on as the first players signed up for this year’s competition are revealed today ahead of another explosive summer of world-class sport and family-friendly entertainment.
Today’s deadline day sees all eight men’s and women’s teams reveal which players from last year’s inaugural competition they are keeping hold of for 2022.
Over 150 men’s and women’s player
Defending champions Southern Brave start the men’s competition against Welsh Fire on Wednesday 3 August Women’s competition starts with inaugural winners Oval Invincibles on Thursday 11 August following the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Men’s and women’s teams will then play on same days at same grounds again after success of opening year Fans on the south coast in for a treat with Ageas B
The Hundred has entertained and captivated millions of new and existing cricket fans – with a total of 16.1m people watching some of the action on TV alone, new figures show today.
After seven days of matches, cricket’s newest competition, The Hundred, has seen thrilling action both on and off the pitch, unearthed new superstars and showcased world-class cricketing talent.
Millions of people have tuned in from home and thousands have flocked to the opening games across the seven cities.
But how do the numbers stack up? We take a closer look…
103,650 - The number of
All-rounder Maia Bouchier has been cleared to resume bowling in competitive women’s cricket following an independent assessment at Loughborough University.
The independent assessment confirmed that Bouchier had remedied her bowling action within the prescribed 15 degrees of elbow extension threshold as defined in the ECB Regulations for the Review of Bowlers Reported with Suspect Bowling Ac
The opening match of The Hundred has become the most watched women's cricket match (across both international and domestic) in the UK on record.
Across BBC Two, Sky Sports Cricket, Main Event and Mix the match drew a peak audience of 1.95m as the exciting clash between Oval Invincibles and Manchester Originals reached its final stages at The Kia Oval last night. The coverage across all channels
The Hundred (a new 100-ball cricket competition) and Sky have joined forces to develop an industry first augmented reality experience on a scale never before seen in sport by creating avatars using motion capture. Sky and The Hundred have captured players’ full range of movement in accurate detail, which will be used to enhance Sky’s TV broadcast coverage and at home fan experience via The Hundred
A further five players have signed up for The Hundred as replacement overseas players.
West Indies allrounder and T20 World Cup winner Hayley Matthews will join Welsh Fire after it was confirmed that Suné Luus has returned a positive Covid-19 test and is not able to travel.
Fresh off making 174* in his LV= Insurance County Championship debut, New Zealander Colin de Grandhomme has signed
A-list music talent set to perform live at The Hundred cricket competition in collaboration with BBC Music Introducing
8 July: Live sport and music are teaming up like never before this summer, with The Hundred today unveiling an all-star music line-up to complement one of the most anticipated new sporting events, which starts just days after lockdown restrictions are due to lift.
Queen of
The sports industry comes together to discuss how The Hundred, the new action-packed 100-ball cricket competition, has gender parity at its heart and is breaking new ground to level the playing field in cricket and the wider sporting world.
