The Hundred Men's Competition (2025)

The highly-awaited The Hundred Men's competition 2025 will be played from August 5 to 31 this year. The upcoming season will be the fifth edition of the tournament. Eight teams will be fighting it out for the trophy this season as well.

The format of the tournament will see each team participating in the league for a place in the playoffs and the final. The table-topper will qualify for the final directly while the second and third-placed teams will play the Eliminator for a place in the title-decider.

Here's all you need to know about the tournament:

The Hundred Men's Competition 2025 - Teams:

Just like the previous seasons, eight teams will be participating in the Hundred 2025. The eight teams are -

• Birmingham Phoenix
• London Spirit
• Manchester Originals
• Northern Superchargers
• Oval Invincibles
• Southern Brave
• Trent Rockets
• Welsh Fire

The Hundred Men's Competition 2025 - Venues:

The Hundred 2025 will be played across eight venues. Each team will be playing four games at home and four games away. The teams will be playing one match against the other seven teams as well as a bonus match against their nearest regional rivals.

Here are the Hundred 2025 venues:

• Lord’s Cricket Ground, London
• Kennington Oval, London
• Old Trafford, Manchester
• Headingley, Leeds
• Edgbaston, Birmingham
• Sophia Gardens, Cardiff
• The Rose Bowl, Southampton
• Trent Bridge, Nottingham

The Hundred Men's Competition 2025 - Schedule:

The Hundred Men's Competition 2025 - Squads:

Birmingham Phoenix

Liam Livingstone, Ben Duckett, Trent Boult (o), Jacob Bethell, Benny Howell, Adam Milne (o), Dan Mousley, Tim Southee (o), Will Smeed, Chris Wood, Aneurin Donald, Joe Clarke, Harry Moore, Tom Helm, Liam Patterson-White, Louis Kimber.

London Spirit

Jamie Smith, Liam Dawson, Daniel Worrall, Kane Williamson (o), Richard Gleeson, Olly Stone, Ollie Pope, Keaton Jennings, Jamie Overton, David Warner (o), Luke Wood, Ashton Turner (o), Jafer Chohan, Wayne Madsen, Sean Dickson, Ryan Higgins.

Manchester Originals

Jos Buttler, Phil Salt, Heinrich Klaasen (o), Matthew Hurst, Scott Currie, Josh Tongue, Tom Hartley, Sonny Baker, Tom Aspinwall, Noor Ahmad (o), Rachin Ravindra (o), Lewis Gregory, Ben McKinney, George Garton, James Anderson, Marchant de Lange.

Northern Superchargers

Harry Brook, Adil Rashid, David Miller (o), Mitchell Santner (o), Brydon Carse, Matthew Potts, Ben Dwarshuis (o), Graham Clark, Pat Brown, Tom Lawes, Zak Crawley, Dan Lawrence, Michael Pepper, Dawid Malan, James Fuller, Rocky Flintoff.

Oval Invincibles

Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Tom Curran, Jordan Cox, Rashid Khan (o), Saqib Mahmood, Sam Billings, Gus Atkinson, Nathan Sowter, Donovan Ferreira (o), Tawanda Muyeye, Jason Behrendorff (o), Miles Hammond, George Scrimshaw, Zafar Gohar.

Southern Brave

James Vince, Jofra Archer, Tymal Mills, Chris Jordan, Jason Roy, Leus Du Plooy, Craig Overton, Laurie Evans, Finn Allen (o), Danny Briggs, James Coles, Michael Bracewell (o), Reece Topley, Jordan Thompson, Toby Albert, Hilton Cartwright (o).

Trent Rockets

Joe Root, Marcus Stoinis (o), Tom Banton, John Turner, Sam Cook, Sam Hain, Tom Alsop, Calvin Harrison, David Willey, Lockie Ferguson (o), Max Holden, George Linde (o), Adam Hose, Rehan Ahmed, Callum Parkinson, Ben Sanderson.

Welsh Fire

Chris Woakes, Steve Smith (o), Jonny Bairstow, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Tom Abell, Luke Wells, Stephen Eskinazi, David Payne, Paul Walter, Riley Meredith (o), Chris Green (o), Saif Zaib, Josh Hull, Mason Crane, Ajeet Singh Dale, Ben Kellaway.

The Hundred Men's Competition 2025 - Format:

• Each innings will have 100 balls.
• A change of ends after 10 balls.
• The bowlers can deliver five or 10 deliveries in a row. Each bowler can bowl a maximum of 20 deliveries in a match.
• Powerplay to last for 25 balls for each team. During the powerplay, only two fielders will be allowed outside the 30-yard circle.