The Hundred: Pooran shows his power in the match against Manchester Originals

In the 27th match of the ongoing The Hundred Competition between Manchester Originals and Northern Superstrikers, the Northern Superchargers won by 7 wickets after chasing a target of 152 runs.
The credit for this win goes to West Indies destructive batter Nicholas Pooran, who played a match-winning knock of 66 runs in 33 balls to take his team to the winning line 3 balls earlier from a difficult situation when they were required to chase 68 runs in 42 balls against a strong bowling line up of Manchester United.

After the fall of captain Harry Brook, the star batsman held his nerve and took the game deep by forming a partnership of 68 runs for the 4th wicket with Adam Hose. He smashed 66 runs in 33 balls by hitting 8 sixes and 2 boundaries on a strike rate of 200.

When Northern was required 26 runs off 10 balls, the Southpaw batter smashed 22 runs in the over of World-cup leading wicket-taker Fazalhaq Farooqui overs and won the game in the final over by hitting a six. However, the credit for the win also goes to Northern Superchargers bowlers, who made their game back when Phil Salt and Co were assaulting bowlers by scoring 86 runs in 34 balls. From that situation, they took 6 back-to-back wickets in a span of just 28 runs, stopping the Originals from posting a huge target. 

New Zealand's Mitchell Santner was the leading wicket-taker from the Northern Superstars team by bagging 3 wickets in his 20-balls spell, conceding just 24 with a rate per ball run of 1.2.

With this win, Team Manchester has found their first win in the competition and has stepped one position up on the table after winning 1 game out of 8 matches. 

Irrespective of winning the last match, there is bad news as the England test team captain, Ben Stokes, has been ruled out from the tournament after facing a hamstring injury. The star all-rounder was playing his first game of the Hundred Men's competition in the 2024 edition.