Final yr’s Hundred runners-up Northern Superchargers slipped to a 20-run defeat to Trent Rockets at Headingley with a wicket from visiting spinner Alana King incomes comparisons to Shane Warne’s ‘Ball of the Century’.
Superchargers crumbled to 64-8 and had been bowled out for 103 chasing 124 to win, with Australian seam bowler Heather Graham taking 3-13 from 15 balls and her compatriot, leg-spinner King, bagging 2-17 from 20.
King’s first ball of the match was a surprising leg-break that struck Bess Heath’s (0) off stump, with the dismissal not dissimilar to how the late, nice Warne eliminated England’s Mike Gatting within the 1993 Ashes Take a look at at Emirates Outdated Trafford.
Phoebe Litchfield joined Heath in falling for a duck, with solely Hollie Armitage (14) and Annabel Sutherland (15) making double figures amongst Superchargers’ prime eight batters.
Lucy Higham (26) and Linsey Smith (13) placed on 33 for the ninth wicket however Rockets ran out convincing winners.
Rockets had earlier been held to 123-5 on a dry pitch, with Australia all-rounder Sutherland taking 3-14 for Superchargers and England spinner Smith 2-23 – Smith dismissing Ash Gardner (10) and Graham (0) off successive deliveries to cut back Rockets to 87-4 from 63 balls.
However Nat Sciver-Brunt floor her solution to an unbeaten 36 from 34 balls, backing up the fluent 32 off 22 deliveries 20-year-old opener Grace Scrivens had struck up prime following her transfer from London Spirit through the low season.
Nat Sciver-Brunt top-scored for Rockets with 36 not out from 34 balls
What’s subsequent?
The Hundred continues on Saturday as London Spirit tackle Birmingham Phoenix at Lord’s.
The ladies’s match (2.55pm on air, 3pm first ball) is dwell on Sky Sports activities Combine and by way of a free dwell stream on skysports.com, the Sky Sports activities app and on the Sky Sports activities Cricket YouTube channel.
The lads’s sport begins at 6.30pm with build-up starting at 6pm on Sky Sports activities Combine. There will even be protection on Sky Sports activities Cricket from round 6.30pm, as soon as day three of the England vs West Indies Take a look at match has completed.
Sky Sports activities will present all 68 video games in The Hundred dwell, whereas you may also watch chosen matches by way of free streams on Sky Sports activities’ digital platforms and the Sky Sports activities Cricket YouTube channel.
