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| The Hundred – 2020 season |
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| Dates: Friday, 17 July – Saturday, 15 August |
| Coverage: Live on BBC television, iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app, plus text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app |
Oval Invincibles will take on Welsh Fire in the inaugural match of The Hundred at The Oval on 17 July 2020.
The new format, to be shown live on the BBC, begins as Jason Roy’s Invincibles face a Fire side boasting Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc and Jonny Bairstow.
A day later Birmingham Phoenix welcome Eoin Morgan’s London Spirit while Ben Stokes’ Northern Superchargers visit Manchester Originals.
Phoenix host the Originals in the women’s opener on 22 July.
The BBC will have live television coverage of 10 men’s matches and up to eight live matches from the women’s tournament, including both finals on 14 and 15 August.
What is The Hundred?
The format? 100 balls per team, most runs wins. The new competition will be played in the school summer holidays to attract more families to the game and in trial matches held last year, innings were taking just over one hour to complete.
Eight new teams have been formed, representing seven cities from around the UK, with each having both a men’s and women’s side.
A mini-draft saw the men’s teams select three English players before top overseas players joined the main draft on 20 October to fill the remaining places in the 15-man squads.
There will be 32 league matches in total, with the top three finishers competing in the Finals Day (top team automatically reaches the final, with second versus third for the other spot).
Teams will play each other once, apart from their paired ‘rivals’, whom they meet twice (home and away): Northern Superchargers (Leeds) and Manchester Originals, London Spirit and Oval Invincibles, Birmingham Phoenix and Trent Rockets (Nottingham), Southern Brave (Southampton) and Welsh Fire (Cardiff).
Key clashes
England fast bowler Jofra Archer was selected by Southern Brave, with Australian batsman David Warner being one of the team’s picks in the top salary band of £125,000.
So as Brave are paired with Fire, Archer has at least two games against his Ashes rival Smith – in Cardiff on Sunday, 19 July, and Southampton on Friday, 7 August.
Warner will renew his own rivalry with England all-rounder Stokes as Northern Superchargers welcome Brave to Headingley on Thursday, 30 July.
The London sides meet at the Oval on Wednesday, 29 July, with the return at Lord’s on Thursday, 6 August.
After meeting on the opening weekend, Jos Buttler’s Manchester Originals face the Superchargers again in Leeds on Wednesday, 5 August.
And Joe Root’s Trent Rockets, who selected Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan with the first draft pick, host Moeen Ali’s Birmingham Phoenix on Sunday, 19 July, before travelling to Edgbaston on Saturday, 8 August.
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