Birmingham phoenix

Moeen Ali and Sophie Devine will captain the men's and women's teams of the Birmingham Phoenix in the inaugural edition of The Hundred to be played next year.

Ali, a World Cup winner, grew up a short distance from Edgbaston, where the team is based. "Birmingham is my city and captaining my home team in The Hundred is right up there in terms of my career I was born, raised and my life is still based in Birmingham, so to be the first-ever men's captain of Birmingham Phoenix is very special for me," Ali said in a statement.