Buttler hits Spirit for six before rain

MANCHESTER Originals skipper Jos Buttler smacked five sixes in an entertaining 36-ball 62 but his side’s match in The Hundred against London Spirit eventually fell victim to the Manchester weather.

The home side had reached 138 for five after 80 balls in the game’s only innings when umpires Graham Lloyd and Steve O’Shaughnessy took the players from the field for the second time.

They did not return and the no result outcome means that each side have taken one point from their first two matches in The Hundred.

But the first interruption might have come at a useful time for Spirit’s bowlers and fielders. The former had conceded five sixes in 35 balls, three of the maximums being struck by Phil Salt, who was dropped by Dan Lawrence off Liam Dawson when only eight.