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London Spirit crawled to a first men’s Hundred win of 2024 and will now try and back that up with another positive result, but to do so they must topple the reigning champion Oval Invincibles.
DATE & TIME: Sunday August 4th 2024: USA ET – 9:30am / USA PT – 6:30am / UK – 2:30pm / India – 7:00pm
VENUE: Lord’s, London, England
WEATHER: Dry with sunny intervals, a gentle breeze and temperatures of 22c.
HOW TO WATCH THE HUNDRED: USA – Willow & DAZN / UK – Sky Sports & BBC / India – Fancode Click here for a list of broadcasters in other territories
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LONDON SPIRIT MEN FORM: SPIRIT FINALLY ON THE BOARD
London Spirit dragged themselves kicking and screaming over the finish line against Welsh Fire last time out at Lord’s to finally gain their first two points of the season at the third time of asking, despite a cluster of late wickets leaving the Spirit seven down when reaching their victory target.
OVAL INVINCIBLES MEN FORM: BATTERS SLUMP AGAINST SUPERCHARGERS
Chasing 146 to beat Northern Superchargers this past Friday night, Oval Invincibles came up short after their top five batters added just 43 runs between them. Despite late fireworks from Donovan Ferreira, it was not enough to prevent the Invincibles falling to their first loss of the tournament.
LONDON SPIRIT MEN BETTING ANALYSIS
The big-hitting abilities of West Indian Shimron Hetmyer has been on show across London Spirit’s 2024 men’s Hundred campaign so far and their last two games have been Hetmyer score over 0.5 match sixes. With that in mind, consider backing Hetmyer to record the most match sixes for the Spirit over the course of this latest contest.
OVAL INVINCIBLES MEN BETTING ANALYSIS
The consistency of Sam Curran with the ball since going wicketless in Oval Invincibles’ opening game vs Welsh Fire has to be credited. Since coming up empty in that encounter, Curran has picked up over 1.5 match wickets in each of the Invincibles’ last two. This makes him worthy of investment in this London derby, specifically to take over 1.5 match wickets once again.
LONDON SPIRIT MEN VS OVAL INVINCIBLES MEN EXPERT PREDICTION
Whilst Oval Invincibles’ misfire with the bat against Northern Superchargers may have caused some concern, this is still a very good batting unit and you would expect a rally here, especially against another London-based side, who have come up totally cold on the batting front all tournament long so far.
Although London Spirit’s bowling attack is a dangerous one, Dan Worrall proving menacing in the opening sets, Liam Dawson providing spin control and Olly Stone boasting pace, it shouldn’t be enough to counter for their struggles wielding the willow and backing an Oval Invincibles victory here is to be favoured.
LONDON SPIRIT MEN VS OVAL INVINCIBLES MEN TOP TIP: OVAL INVINCIBLES MEN TO WIN