The Hundred 2024: Final women's Hundred group game ruined by rain

Both teams knew they had missed out on qualification before Birmingham Phoenix and Manchester Originals's game was abandoned

ECB Media | 15/08/2024 at 17:45

Edgbaston: Birmingham Phoenix 98-2, Manchester Originals - Match abandoned due to rain

Birmingham Phoenix and Manchester Originals concluded their 2024 campaigns in The Hundred with a rain-ruined abandonment as the teams were forced to share the points.

Both teams would have been keen to end on a high after disappointing seasons but the weather rolled in with the Phoenix on 98 for 2, and settled in thereafter.

For Ellyse Perry in particular it was a frustrating end to an uneven campaign which saw the Phoenix, as with the Originals, finish outside the top three.

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Fi Morris bowled an economical ten balls before the rain (ECB/Getty)

Perry was the dominant figure of the play that was possible, batting beautifully to reach 45 from 39 balls, but with Perry and Amy Jones in the midst of building a useful partnership, the weather cut them off in their prime with 30 balls still remaining in their innings.

Earlier in the piece Lauren Filer bowled with pace and fire to remove Sterre Kalis for 18, and Phoebe Graham picked up Fran Wilson for 18, but that was as good as it got for the Originals.