Twenty-year-old Will Smeed became the first player to score a hundred in The Hundred after blasting an unbeaten 101 as Birmingham Phoenix defeated Southern Brave.
It was a stunning innings from Smeed, who was a breakout star for the Phoenix in last year's Hundred after impressing for Somerset in the T20 Blast. He is also in England contention, having made his List A debut last month against South Africa for the Lions.
Those games remain his only non-T20 or Hundred appearances and former England white-ball captain Eoin Morgan believes Smeed's century has cemented him as a "domestic hero" and that his success is "a big line in the sand for English cricket".
