Personnel | |
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Captain | Sam Billings (Men's team) TBA (Women's team) |
Coach | Tom Moody (Men's team) Jonathan Batty (Women's team) |
Overseas player(s) | Donovan Ferreira Spencer Johnson Adam Zampa (Men's team) Chamari Athapaththu Marizanne Kapp Amanda-Jade Wellington (Women's team) |
Team information | |
Colours | |
Founded | 2019 |
Home ground | The Oval |
Capacity | 25,500 |
History | |
No. of titles | 3 |
Men's titles wins | 1 (2023) |
Women's titles wins | 2 (2021, 2022) |
The Hundred game wins | 30 (Women's team: 15) (Men's team: 15) |
Official website | Oval Invincibles |
Oval Invincibles is a franchise 100-ball cricket side based in South London. The team represents the historic counties of Surrey and Kent in the newly founded The Hundred competition, [1] which took place for the first time during the 2021 English and Welsh cricket season. Both the men's side and the women's side plays at The Oval.
The announcement of the new eight-team men's and women's tournament series in 2019 was not without controversy, with the likes of Virat Kohli criticising the England and Wales Cricket Board for pursuing a shift away from Test cricket, [2] while others argued the format should have followed the established and successful Twenty20 format. The ECB however decided it needed a more unique format to draw crowds.
In August 2019, the side announced that Australian coach Tom Moody would be the men's team's first coach, while former England Women player Lydia Greenway was appointed coach of the Women's team. [3]
The inaugural Hundred draft took place in October 2019 and saw the Invincibles claim Sam Curran as their headline men's draftee, and Laura Marsh as the women's headliner. They were joined by England internationals Tom Curran and Jason Roy for the men's team, while Fran Wilson joined Marsh in the women's side. [4]
The Hundred
The Hundred
Both the Oval Invincibles men's and women's sides play at the home of Surrey, The Oval, in the Kennington area of London.
The women's side had been due to play at the County Ground in Beckenham, one of the outgrounds of Kent County Cricket Club, but both teams were brought together at the same location as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
No. | Name | Nationality | Date of birth (age) | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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Batters | ||||||
— | Chamari Athapaththu | Sri Lanka | 9 February 1990 | Left-handed | Right-arm off break | Overseas player |
— | Georgie Boyce | England | 4 October 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
All-rounders | ||||||
8 | Paige Scholfield | England | 19 December 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
26 | Alice Capsey | England | 11 August 2004 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
— | Jo Gardner | England | 25 March 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
Wicket-keepers | ||||||
58 | Lauren Winfield-Hill | England | 16 August 1990 | Right-handed | — | |
Pace bowlers | ||||||
2 | Lizzie Scott | England | 1 September 2004 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
7 | Marizanne Kapp | South Africa | 4 January 1990 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | Overseas player |
29 | Ryana MacDonald-Gay | England | 12 February 2004 | Right-handed | Right-arm medium | |
53 | Tash Farrant | England | 29 May 1996 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | |
Spin bowlers | ||||||
16 | Sophia Smale | Wales | 8 December 2004 | Right-handed | Slow left-arm orthodox | |
22 | Mady Villiers | England | 26 August 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
— | Amanda-Jade Wellington | Australia | 29 May 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | Overseas player |
No. | Name | Nationality | Date of birth (age) | Batting style | Bowling style | Notes |
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Batters | ||||||
9 | Will Jacks | England | 21 November 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | |
14 | Tawanda Muyeye | Zimbabwe | 5 March 2001 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Domestic player |
22 | Jordan Cox | England | 21 October 2000 | Right-handed | — | |
— | Tom Lammonby | England | 2 June 2000 | Left-handed | Left-arm medium | |
— | Dawid Malan | England | 3 September 1987 | Left-handed | Right-arm leg break | |
All-rounders | ||||||
58 | Sam Curran | England | 3 June 1998 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | Centrally contracted player |
59 | Tom Curran | England | 12 March 1995 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
— | Donovan Ferreira | South Africa | 21 July 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm off break | Overseas player |
Wicket-keepers | ||||||
7 | Sam Billings | England | 15 June 1991 | Right-handed | — | Captain |
Pace bowlers | ||||||
8 | Saqib Mahmood | England | 25 February 1997 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
21 | Spencer Johnson | Australia | 16 December 1995 | Left-handed | Left-arm fast-medium | Overseas player |
37 | Gus Atkinson | England | 19 January 1998 | Right-handed | Right-arm fast-medium | |
Spin bowlers | ||||||
72 | Nathan Sowter | Australia | 12 October 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | UK passport |
88 | Adam Zampa | Australia | 31 March 1992 | Right-handed | Right-arm leg break | Overseas player |
Season | Group stage | Playoff stage | Ref. | |||||||
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Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | Pos | Pld | Pos | ||
2021 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2nd | 2 [lower-alpha 1] | 1st | [5] |
2022 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1st | 1 [lower-alpha 2] | 1st | [6] |
2023 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5th | Did not progress | [7] |
Season | Group stage | Playoff stage | Ref. | |||||||
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Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | Pos | Pld | Pos | ||
2021 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4th | Did not progress | [8] | |
2022 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5th | Did not progress | [9] | |
2023 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1st | 1 [lower-alpha 3] | 1st | [10] |
Notes
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Frances Claire Wilson is an English cricketer. A right handed batter and right arm off break bowler, she was born in Farnham in Surrey and plays for Gloucestershire, Western Storm and Trent Rockets. She previously played for Somerset, Middlesex, Kent, Sunrisers, Oval Invincibles, Welsh Fire and Canterbury. She has appeared for the England Academy Women's team and the England Cricket Board Development Women's XI. She made her One Day International debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo on 15 November 2010 and played her first Twenty20 International game for her country four days later. In October 2021, Wilson announced her retirement from international cricket.
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