The Hundred is an English cricket tournament that is based on playing a game over 100 balls instead of the typical 20 or 10 over domestic and international tournaments. Get all the information about The Hundred 2025 in the passages below, including the schedule and fixtures, squads and the manner in which it can be watched online and on television.
The English cricket have tried to establish their own niche in the form of The Hundred competition which mimics T20 cricket but has a few minor changes made to the format.
It was first played in England in 2021 and its fifth edition is expected to be held this year in 2025 in the month of August. It was expected to begin in 2020 but had to be pushed to the following year because of the pandemic.
When will The Hundred 2025 be Played? – We will get more information on this closer to the start of the competition.
The Hundred 2025 Schedule Fixtures [Men’s]
We are still awaiting the information for the 2025 The Hundred schedule and fixture list. Here’s how things were in the previous edition.
In 2024, each of the men’s teams featured in eight matches on a home and away basis while the women’s competition saw those teams feature in six matches apiece. On most days, the same men’s and women’s teams were in action.
Here’s the The Hundred 2024 schedule:
| Match No. | Date | Time | Teams | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 23, 2024 | 18:30 | Oval Invincibles vs Birmingham Phoenix | Kennington Oval, London |
| 2 | July 24, 2024 | 18:30 | Southern Brave vs London Spirit | The Rose Bowl, Southampton |
| 3 | July 25, 2024 | 18:30 | Manchester Originals vs Welsh Fire | Old Trafford, Manchester |
| 4 | July 26, 2024 | 18:35 | Northern Superchargers vs Trent Rockets | Headingley, Leeds |
| 5 | July 27, 2024 | 18:35 | London Spirit vs Birmingham Phoenix | Lord’s, London |
| 6 | July 28, 2024 | 18:35 | Welsh Fire vs Oval Invincibles | Sophia Gardens, Cardiff |
| 7 | July 29, 2024 | 18:35 | Manchester Originals vs Trent Rockets | Old Trafford, Manchester |
| 8 | July 30, 2024 | 18:35 | Northern Superchargers vs Southern Brave | Headingley, Leeds |
| 9 | July 31, 2024 | 18:30 | Trent Rockets vs Birmingham Phoenix | Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
| 10 | August 1, 2024 | 15:00 | London Spirit vs Welsh Fire | Lord’s, London |
| 11 | August 1, 2024 | 18:30 | Southern Brave vs Manchester Originals | The Rose Bowl, Southampton |
| 12 | August 2, 2024 | 18:30 | Oval Invincibles vs Northern Superchargers | Kennington Oval, London |
| 13 | August 3, 2024 | 14:30 | Birmingham Phoenix vs Southern Brave | Edgbaston, Birmingham |
| 14 | August 3, 2024 | 18:00 | Trent Rockets vs Welsh Fire | Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
| 15 | August 4, 2024 | 14:30 | London Spirit vs Oval Invincibles | Lord’s, London |
| 16 | August 4, 2024 | 18:00 | Northern Superchargers vs Manchester Originals | Headingley, Leeds |
| 17 | August 5, 2024 | 18:30 | Welsh Fire vs Southern Brave | Sophia Gardens, Cardiff |
| 18 | August 6, 2024 | 15:00 | Manchester Originals vs Oval Invincibles | Old Trafford, Manchester |
| 19 | August 6, 2024 | 18:30 | Birmingham Phoenix vs Northern Superchargers | Edgbaston, Birmingham |
| 20 | August 7, 2024 | 18:30 | Trent Rockets vs London Spirit | Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
| 21 | August 8, 2024 | 15:00 | Welsh Fire vs Northern Superchargers | Sophia Gardens, Cardiff |
| 22 | August 8, 2024 | 18:30 | Oval Invincibles vs Southern Brave | Kennington Oval, London |
| 23 | August 9, 2024 | 18:30 | London Spirit vs Manchester Originals | Lord’s, London |
| 24 | August 10, 2024 | 14:30 | Southern Brave vs Trent Rockets | The Rose Bowl, Southampton |
| 25 | August 10, 2024 | 18:10 | Welsh Fire vs Birmingham Phoenix | Sophia Gardens, Cardiff |
| 26 | August 11, 2024 | 14:30 | Oval Invincibles vs London Spirit | Kennington Oval, London |
| 27 | August 11, 2024 | 18:00 | Manchester Originals vs Northern Superchargers | Old Trafford, Manchester |
| 28 | August 12, 2024 | 18:30 | Birmingham Phoenix vs Trent Rockets | Edgbaston, Birmingham |
| 29 | August 13, 2024 | 18:30 | Northern Superchargers vs London Spirit | Headingley, Leeds |
| 30 | August 14, 2024 | 15:00 | Southern Brave vs Welsh Fire | The Rose Bowl, Southampton |
| 31 | August 14, 2024 | 18:30 | Trent Rockets vs Oval Invincibles | Trent Bridge, Nottingham |
| 32 | August 15, 2024 | 18:30 | Birmingham Phoenix vs Manchester Originals | Edgbaston, Birmingham |
| Eliminator | August 17, 2024 | 18:00 | Oval Invincibles vs London Spirit | Kennington Oval, London |
| Final | August 18, 2024 | 18:00 | Welsh Fire vs London Spirit | Lord’s, London |
The Hundred 2025 Team Squads Players List
More information on how the squads for the 2025 edition of the competition looked can be found below. These will be updated for the 2025 The Hundred closer to the start of the season.
Birmingham Phoenix
Chris Woakes, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Ben Duckett, Benny Howell, Adam Milne, Jamie Smith, Will Smeed (injured – replaced by Louis Kimber), Tom Helm, Jacob Bethell, Naseem Shah (replaced by Tim Southee), Sean Abbott, James Fuller, Dan Mousley, Aneurin Donald, Rishi Patel
London Spirit
Zak Crawley (injured – replaced by Keaton Jennings), Nathan Ellis, Dan Lawrence, Dan Worrall, Liam Dawson, Adam Rossington, Olly Stone, Matt Critchley, Daniel Bell-Drummond, Andre Russell, Shimron Hetmyer, Richard Gleeson, Ollie Pope, Michael Pepper, Ravi Bopara, Ryan Higgins, Jimmy Neesham (international replacement for Zak Crawley), Matthew Taylor (international replacement for Ollie Pope)
Manchester Originals
Zak Crawley (injured – replaced by Keaton Jennings), Nathan Ellis, Dan Lawrence, Dan Worrall, Liam Dawson, Adam Rossington, Olly Stone, Matt Critchley, Daniel Bell-Drummond, Andre Russell, Shimron Hetmyer, Richard Gleeson, Ollie Pope, Michael Pepper, Ravi Bopara, Ryan Higgins, Jimmy Neesham (international replacement for Zak Crawley), Matthew Taylor (international replacement for Ollie Pope)
The Northern Superchargers
Ben Stokes (got injured during the 2024 edition), Adil Rashid, Harry Brook, Reece Topley, Matthew Short, Brydon Carse (replaced by Jason Roy), Adam Hose, Matthew Potts, Callum Parkinson, Ollie Robinson, Nicholas Pooran, Daniel Sams (injured – replaced by Mitchell Santner), Tom Lawes, Graham Clark, Jordan Clark, Dillon Pennington, Ben Dwarshuis, (four-game replacement for Ben Stokes), Pat Brown (international replacement for Harry Brook), Michael Jones (international replacement for Dillon Pennington), Colin Ingram (temporary replacement for Mitchell Santner)
Oval Invincibles
Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Will Jacks, Adam Zampa, Jordan Cox, Gus Atkinson, Sam Billings, Saqib Mahmood, Spencer Johnson, Nathan Sowter, Tawanda Muyeye, Dawid Malan, Donovan Ferreira, Tom Lammonby, Marchant de Lange, Mark Watt, Harrison Ward (international replacement for Gus Atkinson), Mohammad Amir (one-game replacement for Spencer Johnson)
Southern Brave
Jofra Archer, James Vince, Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills, Leus Du Plooy, Rehan Ahmed, Craig Overton, Finn Allen (injured – replaced by Andre Fletcher), George Garton, Alex Davies, Kieron Pollard, Laurie Evans, Akeal Hosein, Danny Briggs, James Coles, Joe Weatherley, Dan Hughes (one-game replacement for Finn Allen)
Trent Rockets
Joe Root, Rashid Khan, Alex Hales, Lewis Gregory, Luke Wood, John Turner, Sam Hain, Sam Cook, Rovman Powell, Imad Wasim, Tom Banton, Calvin Harrison, Jordan Thompson, Adam Lyth, Ollie Robinson, Tom Alsop, Riley Meredith (international replacement for Joe Root)
Welsh Fire
Jonny Bairstow, David Willey, Joe Clarke, Haris Rauf, Tom Abell, David Payne, Glenn Phillips, Luke Wells, Roelof Van der Merwe, Stephen Eskinazi, Chris Cooke (injured – replaced by Ross Whiteley), Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Jake Ball, Mason Crane, Ben Green, Josh Little (temporary replacement for Haris Rauf), Chris Green (temporary replacement for Rashid Khan)
How to Buy The Hundred Tickets?
The best place to buy the tickets for The Hundred is from its official website here to watch both, men’s and women’s matches.
In 2024, tickets for children cost anywhere between £5 and £25 while an Adult ticket cost anywhere between £30-70 for the opening day and the price range is on similar lines (some go up to £120 at some venues like Lord’s).
The ticket price for the Eliminator ranged from £5 for kids to £358 for an adult’s ticket for Raise The Roof. The final ticket can cost up to £180.
If any of these match tickets are sold out, you could look at secondary ticketing sites like Viagogo.com for their purchase.
The Hundred 2025 Live Streaming & TV Channels
We are still awaiting information on how to watch The Hundred in India. UK fans can watch it live on Sky Sports Main Event and Cricket channels.
What is The Hundred?
A bit of The Hundred. Instead of playing T20 cricket as is, the ECB decided to change things around and have come up with a 100-ball competition instead and aptly named it The Hundred.
So, instead of teams batting for 20 overs (or 120 balls) every innings, as is the case in a T20 competition, they will be playing 100 balls in each of their essays. What this does is help matches finish quicker – instead of the typical three and a half hours that a T20 match takes, matches in The Hundred get over in two and a half hours.
One of the reasons why The Hundred was invented was because the ECB thought it would be easier to understand for English audiences than the traditional formats of the game.
The Hundred Format
Since this is a new format, it’s key to understand how the matches in The Hundred work.
As mentioned earlier, teams can bat up to 100 balls in each of the innings instead of the traditional 20 overs in a T20 match. Instead of changing the bowling ends after every six balls, it happens after every 10 balls, reducing the number of breaks within a match.
Bowlers in T20 cricket (and in other formats of the game) bowl six balls per over. In The Hundred, they can bowl five or 10 successive deliveries. The most that a bowler can bowl in an innings is 20 balls (or the equivalent of four overs in a T20 game).
There are Powerplays for the first 25 balls of the innings and only two players are allowed outside the 30-yard circle. Instead of the usual no-ball costing a run to the bowling team, in The Hundred, this is worth two runs with a Free Hit to follow.
Tournament Format
The Hundred is played by both women’s and men’s cricketers. There are eight teams involved in both those formats, with each team playing eight matches on a home and away basis.
Each of the men’s and women’s teams plays seven matches against the other teams in the competition and a second match against a team from a neighbouring region.
The top three teams in both, the men’s and women’s sections of the competition proceed to the knock-out round with the top-placed side getting a bye to the final and the remaining two featuring in a knock-out semifinal or an Eliminator.