Lanning's Spirit tie with Invincibles in Hundred clash

Meg Lanning's London Spirit and Oval Invincibles tied a last-ball derby thriller in front of a Lord's crowd of 17,810 in the women's Hundred. An ice-cold Charlie Dean run out, as Ryana MacDonald-Gay and Jo Gardner sought a match-winning two from the final ball, denied the visitors victory as they chased a target of 114. Both teams were inspired by exceptional performances from their overseas superstars, with South Africa's Marizanne Kapp starring for Invincibles with a 4-11 and a quickfire 47, while India's Deepti Sharma took 3-18 after top-scoring fir Spirit with 44. Invincibles captain Lauren Winfield-Hill's decision to bowl first was vindicated when Kapp bowled former Australia captain Lanning with her fourth ball. Cordelia Griffith and Georgia Redmayne responded well to take the score up to 30, but Kapp then bowled both batters. MacDonald-Gay continued the Invincibles' momentum, bowling Danielle Gibson for two before Kapp struck again with the final ball of her spell, sending back home captain Heather Knight. That saw Spirit reduced to 5-57 but Sharma hit six fours in her 34-ball innings to reach 9-113 despite a flurry of late wickets. In response, openers Chamari Athapaththu was caught off the bowling of Tara Norris, and Gray had Winfield-Hill stumped. Kapp then led the Invincibles' charge, smashing a sweep-heavy 47 from 32 balls and putting on an imposing 55-run partnership with Alice Capsey (31 from 19) before Sharma bowled the latter. Dean grabbed a stunning catch soon after to remove Paige Scholfield and the Invincibles chase became trickier as the England off-spinner then bowled Mady Villiers before Sarah Glenn smartly ran out Amanda-Jade Wellington, leaving the visitors needing 32 from 32 with four wickets remaining. Kapp was bowled with just four runs required and that proved to be key with MacDonald-Gay run out well short of her ground looking for the two runs they needed from the final ball. Meanwhile, Northern Superchargers beat Manchester Originals at Headingley, the home side winning their second successive game to give them two wins from their opening four matches. Originals put the home side into bat first with England quick Lauren Filer the pick of the bowlers for the visitors as she took 2-16. Hollie Armitage and Phoebe Litchfield put on a 47-run partnership for the second wicket. But Australian duo Litchfield and Annabel Sutherland - continuing her fine form from the Oval on Friday - both fell short of half-centuries as they top-scored for Superchargers with 43 off 25 and 44 off 26 respectively to take the hosts to 4-138. In reply, Originals initially got off to a strong start but went on to lose both openers, Laura Wolvaardt and Aussie Beth Mooney, inside the first 30 balls and Superchargers seamer Kate Cross took the key wicket of Wolvaardt.