- Invincibles win by 15 runs; men’s fixture is rained off
- Sixteen-year-old Capsey hits matchwinning 59 off 41 balls
Alice Capsey had plenty of time to contemplate her opening gambit here. She watched the first 10 balls of the Oval Invincibles innings from the non-striker’s end, seeing her opening partner Georgia Adams getting bowled and the No 3 Grace Gibbs hit three boundaries. Then, facing her very first delivery, she danced down the pitch and clouted Naomi Dattani straight over midwicket for four. In her first innings at Lord’s. At the age of 16. You know, as you do.
In turning the sport’s most famous strip of turf into her own personal playpen, Capsey announced herself as one of the brightest new faces in the women’s game. The youngest player in the Hundred, Capsey is so young that her coach Jonathan Batty had to ring her mother to ask permission to call her up. She will receive her GCSE results in the middle of the tournament. In another sense, however, this was her graduation day.
Written by Jonathan Liew at Lord’s
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/25/alice-capsey-announces-herself-as-oval-invincibles-beat-london-spirit under the title “Alice Capsey announces herself as Oval Invincibles beat London Spirit”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
