Northern Superchargers Women vs Birmingham Phoenix Women, The Hundred Women, Today Match Prediction 17 August 2021

nsuperw vs birphw Match Prediction & Analysis

Northern Superchargers will face Birmingham Phoenix in the 31st match of the Women’s Hundred tournament on 17th August at Leeds. Both teams have not booked their place for the playoff stage and will try to win this game to make that confirmation on Tuesday. With 3 wins from 7 games, Northern Superchargers are in a third place having 7 points in their account. On the other hand, Birmingham Phoenix are in 5th place in the points table with 6 points in 7 games they played so far including 3 wins and 4 defeats. 

Batting is the key for Northern Superchargers whereas bowling is the main weapon for Birmingham Phoenix and that’s why we might get to see a thrilling battle between these twos on 17th August in this last leg of the league stage.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Northern Superchargers Women Preview

After winning the first 3 consecutive games, Northern Superchargers lost their momentum and had faced 3 back to back defeats in the last 3 matches of the league stage. Currently, with 3 wins from 7 games and 1 point of an abandoned match, they are in third place in the points table. They will face Birmingham Phoenix in this last match of the league. With the help of Jemimah Rodrigues’ not-out 92 from 43 balls against Welsh Fires and again 60 runs from 41 balls against Trent Rockets, Superchargers won the first two games consecutively in this new format of the cricket league. Alice Davidson-Richards shows her all rounding skills against Oval Invincible to help her team in another victory. She scored 42 runs from 30 balls and took 2 wickets for 17 runs.

Though the team managed to win the first 3 games, they stuck in the second half of the tournament to lose 3 back to back matches against Southern Brave, London Spirits, and Manchester Originals. This team is mainly dependent on batting strength but batters failed to deliver in the last few matches for them. The overall team is looking strong and has good batting depth with them. They just need to get back in form with their batting unit. To make it through the knockout stage, they need to win this game against Birmingham Phoenix by taking advantage of home conditions on Tuesday.

Key players for Northern Superchargers: Jemimah Rodrigues, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Alice Davidson-Richards, Kalea Moore

Northern Superchargers Women Predicted Playing XI:

Jemimah Rodrigues, Lauren Winfield-Hill (c/wk), Laura Wolvaardt, Bess Heath, Laura Kimmince, Linsey Smith, Alice Davidson-Richards, Kalea Moore, Phoebe Graham, Elizabeth Russell, Katie Levick.

Birmingham Phoenix Women Preview

Birmingham Phoenix had a tough first leg of the league stage as they have managed to win just one game from the first 5 matches. Now they have made a comeback in this later part of the tournament to win 2 straight games and with 6 points they are at 5th place before playing their last match of the league against Northern Superchargers. After losing the first game against London Spirits while chasing the target of 129 runs, the team registered their first victory of the season against Manchester Original in the second match. Team’s leading wicket-taker of the season; Kirstie Gorden bowled a superb spell of 3 wickets for 14 runs and helped her team to defend the target of 114 runs.

But then onwards the team lost 3 consecutive games against Southern Brave, Trent Rockets, and Oval Invincibles before winning the next two. Shefali Verma (76 runs from 42 balls)and Eve Jones (52 runs from 42 balls), stood for a match-winning partnership against Welsh Fires while chasing 131 runs without losing a single wicket. With good depth in the bowling department and strong middle order, Birmingham Phoenix are looking strong in the last two matches and will try to win this match against Northern Superchargers by continuing their winning momentum to make their place in the top 4. 

Key players for Birmingham Phoenix: Shafali Verma, Eve Jones, Amy Jones, Kirstie Gordon.

Birmingham Phoenix Women Predicted Playing XI:

Erin Burns, Shafali Verma, Emily Arlott, Katie Mack, Eve Jones, Georgia Elwiss, Amy Jones(c, wk), Gwenan Davies, Issy Wong, Abtaha Maqsood, Kirstie Gordon.

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

The weather will be cloudy on the 17th of August, with a 70-80% chance of raining on match day. The maximum and minimum temperatures will be in the 18°C - 12°C range.

Venue Details

Headingley in Leeds will host this match. This ground is one of the prime grounds in England and has a capacity of 17000. The ground has conducted a few ODIs and just 1 T20I game so far.

Toss: To Bat

This ground has not conducted any game of this new format of the game previously but conducted just 1 T20I match. This ground is mainly used for domestic purposes like Vitality Blast and County Championship. The pitch favours bowlers, and it’s easy to defend the targets on this ground. Whichever team wins the toss will want to bat first.