Trent Rockets maintained their hopes of reaching the knockout levels of The Hundred with a 24-run win over Southern Courageous in Southampton as skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt turned the very best run-scorer within the historical past of the ladies’s competitors.
Sciver-Brunt’s 60 not out from 37 balls – throughout which she surpassed Courageous opener and England team-mate Danni Wyatt’s haul of 903 runs throughout all editions of The Hundred – took Rockets to 155-7.
Wyatt (0) failed so as to add to her tally after falling for a golden duck in Courageous’s response with the already-eliminated defending champions restricted to 131-6 – Chloe Tryon top-scoring with an unbeaten 47 from 31 balls – as they slumped to a fifth defeat in seven fixtures.
Fifth-placed Rockets should now beat Birmingham Phoenix on Monday and Oval Invincibles on Wednesday, in addition to hope different outcomes fall of their favour, to complete within the prime three.
The desk toppers will progress on to the ultimate at Lord’s on August 18, the place they may face the winner of an eliminator between the second and third-placed groups at The Kia Oval a day earlier.
Rockets are as much as six factors from as many video games and to inside a degree of the highest three, whereas Courageous are rooted to the foot of the desk on three factors having picked up a solitary victory, over Invincibles.
Sciver-Brunt loved a slice of fortune on 38 when she deflected Lauren Bell’s slower ball again onto her stumps however the bails stayed on, throughout a Rockets innings during which opener Grace Scrivens struck a sprightly 36 off 24 balls.
Courageous bowler Bell picked up three wickets and conceded two boundaries in an entertaining ultimate 5 balls, whereas Wyatt and Maia Bouchier (0) had been dismissed by left-arm seamer Alexa Stonehouse through the opening 5 balls of the reply.
Smriti Mandhana (42 off 27) – who had run out Rockets’ Bryony Smith from the primary ball of the match – and Courageous captain Georgia Adams (27 off 29) rallied the hosts from 1-2 with a stand of 60 from 46 balls.
That partnership was snapped when Adams was run out with 95 runs required from 50 deliveries and Courageous’s knock subsequently fizzled out, with Tryon’s boundaries on the backend coming too late.
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Smriti Mandhana’s direct hit from mid-on dismissed Bryony Smith for a duck from the primary ball of Trent Rockets’ innings
Participant of the Match – Nat Sciver-Brunt
“I am really happy with today. Their batters put us under the pump, and made us go through a few plans. After a few games, we felt pretty down. But we’ve come back pretty strongly in the last two games.”
What’s subsequent?
Sunday is one other four-game day in The Hundred, beginning with a London derby between Oval Invincibles and London Spirit at The Kia Oval as the ladies’s sides collide from 11am earlier than the boys lock horns from 2.30pm.
There’s additionally motion at Emirates Previous Trafford as Manchester Originals met Northern Superchargers, with the ladies’s fixture beginning at 2.30pm and the boys’s at 6pm.
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