The Hundred Tips Matches 19 and 20: Back low scores in intriguing Monday afternoon clash

Welsh Fire v Southern Brave The Hundred Tips

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Monday 3 August, 14:30
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Momentum, form and confidence are all, by and large, transitory from player to player and most franchises in the league season. They ebb and flow for all bar maybe the chosen few.

The Hundred is no different. Southern Brave are an example of a team which, two games ago, looked dead and buried. Now they are back in the hunt. Manchester Super Giants looked like being the early pacesetters with two wins from two and bossing their bowling powerplay in Leeds. But ever since it has all gone horribly wrong with three straight losses.

Brave do fascinate. It is perfectly plausible that after being pointless after the first three they suddenly clicked. In the two games that followed they have, arguably, looked by far the best team in the competition.

That's because they busted two massive toss biases. Against Birmingham Phoenix at home they were starting down the barrel of elimination in double-quick time after posting 128 and a more than 70% bias in favour of Phoenix in the chase. But they squeezed and harried perfectly to win relatively comfortably.

Next up against London Spirit they faced a 67% bias against the chaser at Lord's. Bizarre, then, that after winning the toss they chose to bowl first. The result never really seemed in doubt, though after razing the hosts for 105. Jofra Archer, who had been wicketless in the first three, took four wickets. Momentum, form, confidence.

In this contest they face a durable Welsh Fire side who may well end the Brave resurgence. After all, they still probably have to win their remaining three to make it into third position. Is it a good thing for Brave that there is no toss bias?

On the match odds Brave seem a little underrated at 11/102.11 with the Betfair Sportsbook given they have clearly shown a penchant for attritional play. That is a good quality to have in Cardiff. The pitch could well be sluggish. And if Brave are not for you then unders first-innings runs at 148.5 makes sense.

Sunrisers Leeds v London Spirit The Hundred Tips

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Tuesday 4 August 18.30
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One team who finds that form is not transitory is London Spirit. No matter what they seem to do (new coach, new team, new owners, new strip) they cannot shake off mediocrity.

There were high hopes for a well-balanced and competitive squad this season. But with four games left they are almost certainly not going to play knockout cricket. They surely have to win their last four with their net run rate in the red.

Defeat by Brave last time out was chastening. They had the toss bias handed to them by Brave at Lord's but then squandered it with a shocker of a batting performance. They have since lost Tymal Mills to injury for the rest of the season.

Apart from Rockets, could there be a worse team to run into than the high-octane Leeds when you are down on your luck? Probably not. If the toss goes against Spirit here on a road-like Headingley deck one fears that it could get very messy indeed.

Leeds are eyeing three wins from four and after defeat by Rockets on Sunday they may resolve to go even harder. They had the game in their pocket in the chase but became a little passive with Mitch Marsh and Harry Brook reckoning they had things under control.

Ryan Rickleton is yet to really catch fire but the 7/24.50 that he smashes a 50 has appeal. On good batting wickets it often pays to take others out of the equation by betting milestones instead of top bat.

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