The Hundred Returns For Second Year
The Hundred’s defending champions will be the first men’s and women’s sides back into action as the competition returns this summer.
Inaugural men’s winners Southern Brave will welcome Welsh Fire to the Ageas Bowl on Wednesday 3rd August for the first match of the competition, which begins this year with a round of men’s derbies.
The Hundred is a key part of an incredibly exciting summer for the women’s game, with women’s cricket featuring in the Commonwealth Games for the very first time. As a result, The Hundred women’s competition will get underway after the conclusion of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, on Thursday 11th August.
Defending women’s champions Oval Invincibles will take on Northern Superchargers in the opening women’s clash, which marks the first men’s and women’s double header of the competition. The women’s teams will take the evening slot at The Kia Oval, after the men play mid-afternoon.
From then on, every matchday will see women’s and men’s teams playing at the same ground on the same day, after the double header format proved a hit last year, with a record-breaking 267,000 people attending the women’s matches across the competition.
Games will once again be broadcast live on Sky Sports and BBC throughout the competition after more than 16 million tuned in to watch The Hundred on TV alone in 2021.
Sanjay Patel, Managing Director for The Hundred said, “The Hundred helped grow the game last year. With more than 500,000 tickets sold and issued and 16 million watching on TV – with half of them being new to cricket – we saw a new audience enjoying the game for the first time. We can’t wait to build on that this year, bringing world class cricket and an incredible family day out to fans across England and Wales.”
