The Hundred Women's 2022: Oval Invincibles Defend Their Title Against Southern Brave, Marizanne Kapp Stars Again

Oval Invincibles won the Women's Hundred 2022 on 3 September 2022 at Lord's Cricket Ground, beating Southern Brave by 5 wickets with 6 balls remaining to successfully defend their 2021 inaugural title. Brave scored 101/7 in 100 balls; Invincibles chased it at 105/5 in 94 balls. Marizanne Kapp scored 37* off 33 balls and took 1/19 as Player of the Match — her second consecutive Women's Hundred final Player of the Match (she took 4/9 in the 2021 final). Nat Sciver-Brunt (Trent Rockets) won Player of the Tournament with 228 runs and 6 wickets — from a team that did not reach the final.

Marizanne Kapp: Player of the Match in Back-to-Back Women's Hundred Finals

Marizanne Kapp winning the Player of the Match in the Women's Hundred 2022 final — for the second successive year at the same competition's final at the same ground — was a reflection of the sustained quality that had made her the competition's most impactful player across both editions. In 2021, her 4/9 was the bowling performance that bowled Southern Brave out for 73; in 2022, her 37* off 33 contributed the batting depth that chased down Brave's 101/7 with 6 balls remaining. The combination across two consecutive Women's Hundred finals of bowling (2021) and batting (2022) Player of the Match awards gave Kapp the distinction of no other player had — winning the final's top individual award in successive editions. Kapp, South Africa's right-arm fast-medium bowler and hard-hitting batter, had made the Oval Invincibles' consistency possible through her all-round contributions across both seasons.

Nat Sciver-Brunt: Player of the Tournament from a Non-Finalist

Nat Sciver-Brunt (Trent Rockets) winning the Women's Hundred 2022 Player of the Tournament — 228 runs and 6 wickets from a team that did not reach the final — was consistent with the competition's established pattern of individual awards being distributed across non-finalist franchises. Sciver-Brunt, Surrey-born England Women's all-rounder who had been one of the most complete women's cricketers in England's Test and white-ball programs, contributed batting and bowling quality across the full Trent Rockets campaign. Her 228 runs and 6 wickets made her the competition's most complete all-round contributor — a distinction that her team's non-qualification for the final did not diminish in the individual award's reckoning.

Women's Hundred 2022 in Context

The Women's Hundred 2022 was the second edition of the women's competition — Oval Invincibles defending the inaugural title they had won by 48 runs against Southern Brave at the same Lord's ground the previous year. The 2022 edition's rematch between Oval Invincibles and Southern Brave in the final gave the competition's second year a continuation thread from the 2021 inaugural, with the same two franchises producing the same outcome: Oval Invincibles winning at Lord's. Southern Brave's back-to-back final appearances (2021 loss, 2022 loss) reflected their squad quality while giving them the distinction of consecutive runner-up finishes without a title. Women's Hundred 2022 was played on the same day as the Men's Hundred 2022 final (Trent Rockets beat Manchester Originals), with Lord's hosting both finals on 3 September 2022.