The Hundred Women's 2024: London Spirit Win Their First Title at Lord's, Annabel Sutherland Takes Player of the Tournament

London Spirit won their first Women's Hundred title on 18 August 2024 at Lord's Cricket Ground, defeating Welsh Fire by 4 wickets with 2 balls remaining. Welsh Fire scored 115/8 in 100 balls; London Spirit chased it at 118/6 in 98 balls. Georgia Redmayne won Player of the Match. Annabel Sutherland (Northern Superchargers) won Player of the Tournament with 212 runs and 10 wickets — from a team that did not reach the final. The 2024 Women's and Men's Hundred finals were both held at Lord's on the same day.

London Spirit's Maiden Women's Hundred Title

London Spirit's Women's Hundred 2024 title — their first in the competition — gave Lord's Cricket Ground (London Spirit's home ground) the distinction of being both the host venue of every Women's Hundred final and the home of the 2024 champions. The chase of Welsh Fire's 115/8 — completed at 118/6 with 2 balls to spare — was a tight contest decided by 4 wickets rather than a comfortable margin. Deepti Sharma hit the winning six to complete the chase, giving the decisive moment to one of London Spirit's most prominent international players, though the formal Player of the Match award went to Georgia Redmayne for her batting contribution across the innings. The 4-wicket win gave Spirit their inaugural title in the competition's fourth edition.

Annabel Sutherland: Player of the Tournament from a Non-Finalist

Annabel Sutherland (Northern Superchargers) winning the Women's Hundred 2024 Player of the Tournament — 212 runs and 10 wickets from a team that did not reach the final — maintained the competition's consistent pattern of distributing its top individual awards beyond the winning franchise. Sutherland, Victoria's right-handed batter and right-arm fast-medium bowler who had been developing as one of Australia Women's most exciting all-round prospects, produced a Women's Hundred campaign of full-tournament quality that combined batting and bowling contributions sufficient to win the competition's top individual prize. The Northern Superchargers' failure to convert her tournament-level performance into a final appearance reflected the gap between individual excellence and collective team form that the Hundred's competition structure regularly produces.

Women's Hundred 2024 in Context

The Women's Hundred 2024 was the fourth edition of the competition — producing a fourth different women's champion in four years: Oval Invincibles (2021), Oval Invincibles (2022), Southern Brave (2023), London Spirit (2024). The competitive spread — with no franchise winning the Women's Hundred more than twice in the competition's first four editions — reflected the draft system's success in distributing talent broadly. Welsh Fire reaching their first Women's Hundred final in 2024 gave the competition its seventh of eight franchises to have reached a Women's Hundred final across the first four editions. London Spirit's title was the first for a franchise whose home ground is also the final's venue — a home-court advantage that had not previously delivered a Women's Hundred championship.