The Hundred cricket records: The SportsRush brings you the list of the top run-scorers and highest wicket-takers of the Hundred cricket.
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The 2nd edition of the Hundred Men’s competition is set to start from 3 August 2022. A total of 34 matches will be played in the tournament, and the final match of the tournament will be played on 3 September 2022 at the Lord’s in London.
Southern Brave will take on Welsh Fire in the opening game of the tournament at the Rose Bowl stadium in Southampton. The tournament gained a huge amount of success last year, despite a lot of negativities about the new format of the game. There is a huge buzz about of the tournament this time around as well.
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Birmingham Phoenix’s all-rounder Liam Livingstone scored the highest runs last season and none was even close to him. The explosive batter was at his very best, and he scored 348 runs at an average of 58.00, whereas he had a strike-rate of 178.46. He also scored three half-centuries in the tournament.
Welsh Fire could not perform well last year, but Duckett had a brilliant season with the bat. He scored 232 runs at a S/R of 137.27, courtesy of a couple of half-centuries. James Vince won the title with Southern Brave, and he scored 229 runs at 28.62, with the help of two half-centuries.
Moeen Ali and Glenn Phillips complete the top-5 list of the highest run-scorers. Both of them had some brilliant knocks under their belt playing for their respective sides.
| S No. | Batter | Innings | Runs | HS | Average | S/R | 100 | 50 |
| 1 | Liam Livingstone (Birmingham Phoenix) | 9 | 348 | 92* | 58.00 | 178.46 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Ben Duckett (Welsh Fire) | 8 | 232 | 65 | 29.00 | 137.27 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | James Vince (Southern Brave) | 9 | 229 | 60 | 28.62 | 129.37 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Moeen Ali (Birmingham Phoenix) | 7 | 225 | 59 | 32.14 | 148.02 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Glenn Phillips (Welsh Fire) | 8 | 214 | 80 | 35.66 | 146.57 | 0 | 2 |
The top-4 wicket-takers of the tournament last year had 12 wickets each under the belt. Adam Milne of Birmingham Phoenix, Merchant de Lange & Rashid Khan of Trent Rockets and Adil Rashid of Northern Superchargers had 12 wickets under their belt. Ben Howell of Birmingham Phoenix had 11 wickets under his belt.
| S No. | Bowler | Innings | Wickets | BBI | Average | S/R | Economy |
| 1 | Adam Milne (Birmingham Phoenix) | 8 | 12 | 3/15 | 10.75 | 11.20 | 5.73 |
| 2 | Merchant de Lange (Trent Rockets) | 7 | 12 | 5/20 | 13.08 | 9.90 | 7.91 |
| 3 | Adil Rashid (Northern Superchargers) | 7 | 12 | 3/13 | 14.41 | 11.20 | 7.68 |
| 4 | Rashid Khan (Trent Rockets) | 9 | 12 | 3/16 | 19.25 | 14.10 | 8.15 |
| 5 | Ben Howell (Brimingham Phoenix) | 9 | 11 | 2/12 | 18.54 | 15.40 | 7.20 |
