Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals 2nd Match of the Men’s Hundred: Everything You Should Know

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Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals: The 2nd match of the Men’s Hundred will be played between Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals and is going to take place at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff. Manchester Originals ran a strong race in the 2022 round of The Hundred, finishing in second place. With five victories and three losses, they placed second on the points board, and their impressive performance earned them a place in the Eliminator. To get to the finals, they won an exciting match against London Spirit. They just missed winning the championship, though, when Trent Rockets defeated them in the final game. Welsh Fire finished last in the standings in The Hundred Men’s competition in 2022 after being defeated in all eight of their games. How Welsh Fire approaches this season and overcomes their horrible performance from the last season will be the thing to watch.

The Men’s Hundred 2nd game of the 3rd edition tournament, Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals will take place on 2nd August 2023 at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

Match Details to Note

Match: Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals Men’s Hundred

Date: August 2, 2023 (Wednesday)

Time: 07:30 PM IST

Venue: Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals

Welsh Fire (Match Odds- 2.15)

Preview

Last year, Welsh Fire had a terrible campaign. All eight of their games were losses for them. This year, they would be looking for a more successful campaign with a few positive additions. Welsh Fire would anticipate significant contributions from the Pakistani duo of Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf. The latter played in 14 matches of the Vitality Blast 2023 and took 22 wickets. Rauf is now one of the best pacers in white-ball cricket. One of the biggest dangers to Manchester Originals will be the star England wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow. He would be returning from his time in the Ashes, when he played a few useful knocks with the Bazball strategy. Bairstow will have the chance to transition to white-ball mode and begin preparing for the World Cup 2023 in India on October 5 during the Hundred Men’s Competition. In 181 T20 games overall, Bairstow amassed 4311 runs at an average of 30.35.

Full Squad:

Jonny Bairstow, Tom Abell, David Willey, Shaheen Afridi, Joe Clarke, Glenn Phillips, Ben Green, Haris Rauf, David Payne, Roelof van der Merwe, Jake Ball, Stephen Eskinazi, Dan Douthwaite, George Scrimshaw, Luke Wells, Chris Cooke

Players to watch out for:

Jonny Bairstow

Jonny Bairstow the star England wicketkeeper-batter will be one of the biggest dangers to Manchester Originals. He would be returning from his time in the Ashes, when he played a few useful knocks with the Bazball strategy. Bairstow will have the chance to transition to white-ball mode and begin preparing for the World Cup 2023 in India on October 5 during the Hundred Men’s Competition. In 181 T20 games overall, Bairstow amassed 4311 runs at an average of 30.35.

Shaheen Afridi

Shaheen Shah Afridi, a left-arm fast bowler for Pakistan, attained the landmark of 100 Test wickets in the opening Test of the series against Sri Lanka in Galle. In 25 Tests at the same location last year, the 23-year-old Afridi amassed 99 wickets before suffering a knee injury that forced him to miss time. Now he is fit and hungry to take wickets in the Men’s hundred.

Possible Playing XI:

Jonny Bairstow, Glenn Phillips, Ollie Pope, Tom Abell (C), Luke Wells, Stephen Eskinazi (WK), David Willey, Roelof Van Der Merwe, Jake Ball, Haris Rauf, Shaheen Afridi.

Manchester Originals (Match Odds- 1.70)

Preview

Manchester Originals ran a strong race in the 2022 round of The Hundred, finishing in second place. With five victories and three losses, they placed second on the points board, and their impressive performance earned them a place in the Eliminator. To get to the finals, they won an exciting match against London Spirit. They just missed winning the championship, though, when Trent Rockets defeated them in the decisive game. Trent Rockets defeated Manchester Originals (MO) in the Men’s Hundred Competition championship match by a margin of two wickets. They were really beautiful throughout the season, though. They have won four of their past five games.

Full Squad:

Ashton Turner, Fred Klaassen, Jamie Overton, Jos Buttler, Josh Little, Josh Tongue, Laurie Evans, Max Holden, Mitchell Stanley, Paul Walter, Phil Salt, Richard Gleeson, Tom Hartley, Tom Lammonby, Usama Mir, Wayne Madsen

Players to watch out for:

Jos Buttler

In the men’s Hundred in 2022, the England white-ball skipper was his team’s second-highest run scorer. In five games, he scored 203 runs at a strike rate of 149.26 and an average of 40.60. Buttler also participated in Vitality Blast 2023, appearing in 10 games and scoring 334 runs with an average of 33.40 and a strike rate of 146.49. Buttler averaged 139 runs per game in 14 appearances for the IPL in 2023, with 392 runs. The 32-year-old has totaled 10133 runs in 373 innings, scoring at a strike rate of 144.57 and an average of 34.11.

Josh Little

The Irish young player is a left-arm fast bowler who came into the limelight in 2016 and displayed his brilliance in the game. A bowler who depends on early air swing and can also elicit slight seam movement is undoubtedly a raw asset to an aging Irish team. He played IPL for the first time this year with Gujrat Titans and played 10 games where he took 7 wickets. He can be the surprising factor for Manchester Originals and will be the player to look out for.

Possible Playing XI:

Jos Buttler (c), Phil Salt (wk), Laurie Evans, Wayne Madsen, Max Holden, Ashton Turner, Paul Walter, Tom Lammonby, Tom Hartley, Richard Gleeson, Josh Little.

Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals Head To Head

Manchester Originals have won both of their games so far played against Welsh Fire to keep a perfect record.

Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals Toss Prediction

Welsh Fire, the home team, chose to bat first in the venue’s final match of the previous campaign, but they lost by six wickets. The Southern Brave chose to field and won by nine wickets in the second-to-last game played here. Welsh Fire chose to field but fell to Birmingham Phoenix in the third-to-last game. The team that wins the flip of the coin will probably choose to bat first.

Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals Pitch Report

Sophia Gardens’ pitch is a level surface. The team that wins the coin toss decides who gets to bat first. On this pitch, the early innings are more advantageous for pacers. The middle overs will undoubtedly favor the spinners. Overall, this pitch is favorable to hitters. As a result, the game between WEL and MAN is going to be quite high scoring.

Welsh Fire vs Manchester Originals Match Prediction

After an excellent campaign in the last season, Manchester Originals will be looking to dominate against Welsh Fire who had a very bad history in the last season. Jos Buttler will be leading the Manchester Originals and is expected to win their match of the season.

We are predicting Manchester Originals to win the game at the odds of 1.70