The Hundred men's competition, Old Trafford
Welsh Fire 155-4 (100 balls): Short 71 (47), Salt 48 (37); Atkinson 2-12
Manchester Super Giants 161-1 (69 balls): Seifert 62* (36), Buttler 51* (20); Cook 1-20
Manchester Super Giants won by 9 wickets
Jos Buttler became the all-time starring run-scorer successful T20 cricket arsenic Manchester Super Giants bushed Welsh Fire by 9 wickets successful The Hundred.
The England white-ball large passed Kieron Pollard's grounds of 14,803 astatine Old Trafford by launching the archetypal of 3 consecutive sixes disconnected Duan Jansen.
The 35-year-old finished with 51 from 20 balls, finishing the matches with back-to-back sixes down the crushed disconnected Lockie Ferguson.
Buttler finished with 2 fours and six sixes, finishing alongside Tim Seifert, who struck 62 from 36 balls arsenic Super Giants successfully reached their people of 156 with 31 balls to spare.
Fire skipper Phil Salt made the uncommon determination to bat aft winning the flip and enactment connected an opening concern of 125 with Matt Short.
Salt struck 48 from 37 portion Short deed 71 from 47 deliveries, with the brace combining for a full of 11 fours and 5 sixes.
The concern was yet breached erstwhile Salt was caught successful the heavy disconnected Josh Tongue from the 83rd shot of the innings.
His wicket was the archetypal of 4 mislaid for 13 runs, with Short caught astatine long-on disconnected Paul Walter earlier Jordan Cox and Tom Kohler-Cadmore besides recovered bound fielders disconnected Gus Atkinson, with Fire yet finishing connected 155-4.
Super Giants started with a beardown opening concern of their ain arsenic Seifert and Paul Walter enactment connected 74 from 35 balls.
Walter, playing successful his archetypal lucifer of the tourney aft Aiden Markram withdrew for idiosyncratic reasons, deed 37 from 18 deliveries, including a tally of 5 consecutive boundaries disconnected Duan Jansen and Rachin Ravindra.
The location broadside managed to region the towering opener erstwhile Ben Kellaway pulled disconnected an fantabulous spot of fielding connected the mid-wicket rope, throwing the shot up arsenic helium stepped implicit the enactment and stepping backmost connected the tract to cod it.
Super Giants did not dilatory down and sealed a triumph that takes them into third, 4 points down Fire successful second.
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