2024 The Hundred season
The 2024 The Hundred season was the fourth season of The [Hundred (cricket)|The Hundred], a professional franchise 100-ball cricket tournament involving eight men's and women's teams located in major cities across United Kingdom.
The women's London Spirit won their first trophy, while the men's Oval Invincibles defended their title from 2023.
Teams and venues
The eight teams that competed in the 2023 season returned for a fourth year.Background
As with the previous iterations of this competition, eight city-based teams will compete for the men's and women's titles over a month between 23 July and 18 August 2024.The eight city-based teams will compete over 64 matches in the group stage. All of the men's and women's matches will be held on the same day at the same grounds, with one ticket giving access to both contests.
Each team will play four matches at home and four matches away. This includes one match against every other side in the competition and then a bonus match against their nearest regional rivals.
After the league stage is complete, the top three teams will compete in the knockout stage to decide the ultimate champions. The second and third teams will meet in an eliminator at The Oval in London. The winner of the eliminator will then meet the team that finishes top of the league, in the final at Lord's.
Draft
Player retentions for all eight teams were confirmed ahead of the draft in March. The draft took place on 20 March 2024. Wildcard picks were confirmed on 24 June 2024.Women
Team captains in bold.Replacements
On 24 June 2024 the ECB confirmed a number of replacements:Birmingham Phoenix:
- Emma Jones to replace Ailsa Lister
- Suzie Bates to replace Richa Ghosh for the first three games
- Deepti Sharma to replace Grace Harris
- Erin Burns to replace Deepti Sharma for the first two games
- Kim Garth to replace Sophie Molineux
- Bethan Ellis to replace Mahika Gaur
- Laura Harris to replace Chamari Athapaththu for the first two games
- Charli Knott to replace Smriti Mandhana for the first two games
- Beth Langston to replace Claire Nicholas
Men
Team captains in bold.Replacements
The following players were replaced in the men's competition.Birmingham Phoenix:
- Louis Kimber to replace Will Smeed
- Tim Southee to replace Naseem Shah
- James Neesham to replace Zak Crawley until the end of the Test series against the West Indies
- Matthew Taylor to replace Ollie Pope until the end of the Test series against the West Indies
- Tom Aspinwall to replace Fred Klaassen
- Scott Currie to replace Josh Tongue
- Jason Roy to replace Brydon Carse
- Mitchell Santner to replace Daniel Sams
- Harrison Ward to replace Gus Atkinson until the end of the Test series against the West Indies
- Spencer Johnson to replace Mohammad Amir
- Riley Meredith to replace Joe Root until the end of the Test series against the West Indies
- Matt Henry to replace Shaheen Afridi
Standings
Women
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Knockout stages
Women
Eliminator
----Final
----Men
Eliminator
----Statistics
Most runs
| Runs | Player | Team | |
| 303 | Nat Sciver-Brunt | Trent Rockets | 60* |
| 271 | Heather Knight | London Spirit | 65* |
| 229 | Georgia Redmayne | London Spirit | 66* |
| 227 | Danni Wyatt | Southern Brave | 61 |
| 222 | Alice Capsey | Oval Invincibles | 59 |
- Source:
| Runs | Player | Team | |
| 424 | James Vince | Southern Brave | 90* |
| 269 | Ben Duckett | Birmingham Phoenix | 92 |
| 228 | Phil Salt | Manchester Originals | 61 |
| 227 | Nicholas Pooran | Northern Superchargers | 66* |
| 214 | Jordan Cox | Oval Invincibles | 61* |
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Most wickets
| Wickets | Player | Team | |
| 15 | Linsey Smith | Northern Superchargers | 3/12 |
| 13 | Sarah Glenn | London Spirit | 4/22 |
| 12 | Jess Jonassen | Welsh Fire | 3/17 |
| 11 | Freya Davies | Welsh Fire | 2/12 |
| 11 | Marizanne Kapp | Oval Invincibles | 4/11 |
| 11 | Hayley Matthews | Welsh Fire | 4/14 |
| 11 | Emily Arlott | Birmingham Phoenix | 2/19 |
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| Wickets | Player | Team | |
| 19 | Adam Zampa | Oval Invincibles | 4/17 |
| 19 | Tymal Mills | Southern Brave | 4/16 |
| 17 | Sam Curran | Oval Invincibles | 5/16 |
| 15 | Chris Jordan | Southern Brave | 3/19 |
| 14 | Tim Southee | Birmingham Phoenix | 5/12 |
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