Oval Invincibles Women vs Birmingham Phoenix Women, The Hundred Women, Today Match Prediction 23 August 2022

ovainvw vs birphw Match Prediction & Analysis

The defending champions; Oval Invincibles Women, will host the team in-form; Birmingham Phoenix Women in the 15th fixture of The Hundred 2022 at Kennington Oval in London. Star-studded BP-W will try to maintain their lead in the season by tackling OI-W.

With 3 wins from 3 matches, Birmingham Phoenix Women are still unbeaten in the league and have secured 1st place in the points table with 6 points. Oval Invincibles Women on the other side won 1 out of the 3 games they played to be at 4th place with 2 points.

This game will be important for both sides as Oval Invincibles Women will try to fight for the place in the top 2 of the points table whereas Birmingham Phoenix Women would like to continue the momentum in which they are by tackling defending champions.

TEAMS PREVIEW

Oval Invincibles Women Preview

After getting defeated by the Southern Brave Women, Oval Invincibles Women once again stated why they are defending champions by registering a victory over Trent Rockets Women in the last match. Now they will meet table toppers on Tuesday in a home game.

The bowling unit of the team justified captain Suzie Bates’ decision to bowl first against Trent Rockets Women in the last match.  Eva Gray’s brilliant spell of 2 wickets for 16 runs in 20 balls led them to restrict opponents to just 112 runs in the first innings. Marizanne Kapp and Sophia Smale contributed to that by taking 1 wicket each.

Suzie Bates (41 runs from 32 balls) and Alice Capsey (24 runs from 18 balls) set up a good foundation in the chase against Trent Rockets Women in the early overs. Marizanne Kapp played a crucial knock of 34 runs from 27 balls in the middle order to register a victory while 1 ball was left.

The team has a decent bowling unit that has displayed vital performances in the season. They need to work on their batting unit as the lower-order batters haven't fired yet this season. They would like to utilize the lower batting unit against Birmingham Phoenix Women in the upcoming match.

Key players:
Suzie Bates, Lauren Winfield-Hill, Shabnim Ismail, Sophia Smale.

Oval Invincibles Women Predicted Playing XI:

Suzie Bates (c), Lauren Winfield-Hill (wk), Alice Capsey, Marizanne Kapp, Mady Villiers, Kira Chathli, Kirstie White, Eva Gray, Ryana Macdonald-Gay, Shabnim Ismail, Sophia Smale.

Birmingham Phoenix Women Preview

Undefeated Birmingham Phoenix Women have played some fearless cricket so far this season. They will visit Oval in London for their upcoming fixture of The Hundred against Oval Invincibles Women on Tuesday.

A solid batting display by the batting unit of the Birmingham Phoenix Women helped them to set up 153 runs on the board against Northern Superchargers Women in the last game. Eve Jones (34 runs from 30 balls) and Amy Jones (48 runs from 28 balls) played key knocks in the top order whereas Ellyse Perry added 22 runs from 17 balls in the middle order.

Brilliant bowling efforts from the team led to registering a hat trick of wins this season and they restricted opponents to 148 runs. Sophie Molineux’s important spell of 2 wickets for 11 runs in 20 balls was the match-changing spell. Emily Arlott and Abtaha Maqsood picked up 1 wicket each in the defense.

Birmingham Phoenix have set up a solid squad this season with a decent depth in the batting as well as a bowling unit. They just need to continue the momentum they have in the last 3 matches to tackle the challenge of the defending champions on 23rd August.

Key players:
Sophie Devine, Eve Jones, Ellyse Perry, Kirstie Gordon.

Birmingham Phoenix Women Predicted Playing XI:

Sophie Devine (c), Eve Jones, Amy Jones (wk), Ellyse Perry, Sophie Molineux, Issy Wong, Emily Arlott, Georgia Elwiss, Gwenan Davies, Kirstie Gordon, Abtaha Maqsood.

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

The weather will be partly cloudy on match day, with a 20-30% chance of raining on match day. The maximum and minimum temperatures will be in the 26°C - 18°C range.

Venue Details

Kennington Oval in London will host this match. This ground has a capacity of 23500 and has conducted a few international as well as domestic games so far. This ground is a home ground for the Surrey cricket club.

Toss: To Bat

The pitch of The Oval offers an equal advantage to batsmen as well as bowlers. But here the general trend is the team decides to bat first and prefers to defend the target.