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The Hundred Eliminator predictions and cricket betting tips: Side with Southern

Men's clash between Originals and Spirit looks too close to call

Danni Wyatt (right) and Smriti Mandhana of Southern Brave Women run between the wickets against Trent Rockets
Danni Wyatt (right) and Smriti Mandhana of Southern Brave Women run between the wickets against Trent RocketsCredit: Christopher Lee - ECB

Free cricket tips, best bets and analysis for the Hundred Eliminator matches: Southern Brave v Trent Rockets in the Women's Hundred and Manchester Originals v London Spirit in the Men's Hundred.

Where to watch

Women's Hundred Eliminator
Southern Brave v Trent Rockets
BBC2, Sky Sports Cricket & Mix, 3pm Friday

Men's Hundred Eliminator
Manchester Originals v London Spirit
Sky Sports Cricket & Mix, 6.30pm Friday

Best bet

Southern Brave to win women's Hundred
1pt 13-8 Coral

Match previews

The second season of The Hundred reaches its conclusion on Saturday with finals day at Lord's where the Trent Rockets men and Oval Invincibles women await the winners of Friday's eliminators.

The eliminators are staged at the Rose Bowl where Southern Brave take on Trent Rockets women in the afternoon opener, before the floodlights come on for a men's shootout between Manchester Originals and London Spirit.

Obviously there's going to be a share of outright bets placed on the two respective finalists, who can put their feet up for 24 hours, but there's a decent case to be made for the Brave to land the women's title.

The Hampshire franchise, who will have home advantage in the eliminator, have been the outstanding side in the women's Hundred this season and looked nailed on for top spot after winning their first five matches, most of them with something to spare.

However, a final-day loss to Northern Superchargers coupled with the Oval Invincibles winning their game sent the Londoners straight to Lord's and means the Brave will need to win twice to take the title.

First up are Trent Rockets and the Brave have a lot in their favour having finished four points clear of the Nottingham franchise, who they thrashed by ten wickets during the round-robin stage.

The Brave also won all three of the matches they hosted at the Rose Bowl which has to encourage a positive mindset going into their semi-final.

The men's eliminator is between Manchester Originals and London Spirit, with the northern outfit earning slight favouritism on most books.

Interestingly, it was the Spirit who won the pair's group-stage clash on August 8, an impressive 52-run romp in which their Yorkshire seamer Jordan Thompson took a career-best four for 21.

Thompson is this season's joint-leading tournament wicket-taker alongside Birmingham Phoenix's Tom Helm with 14 scalps.

Eoin Morgan's Spirit have been unrecognisable from last year when they finished bottom of the table with a solitary win to their name, although they arrive in Southampton having lost their final two group matches.

Their big scores from earlier in the competition have vanished, too, with Morgan himself in no sort of form and ace Aussie Glenn Maxwell having departed for international duty.

And Manchester might just feel their name is on the trophy having looked out for the count after losing their opening three matches.

Five successive wins later, including a win-or-bust shootout against Oval Invincibles on Wednesday evening, tells us they've got both the belief and the bottle to go all way.

Their match-winner on Wednesday was Irish seamer Josh Little, who returned competition-best figures of five for 13, an exemplary spell of hit-the-deck bowling which was too good for Oval's batting line-up.

Manchester are producing such heroics minus superstar all-rounder Andre Russell, who is back in the Caribbean, and skipper Jos Buttler, who is out with a calf injury.

That has to give London Spirit a lift but Friday's match-up looks too close to call, as you would expect at this stage.


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