Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 52 from 29 balls led Trent Rockets to a consolation three-wicket win over Birmingham Phoenix in their final game of The Hundred.<\/p>\n
Rockets were cruising to victory, reaching 102-3 in pursuit of 124 to win, but Phoenix dragged themselves back into contention by removing the England captain with 35 balls to go at Trent Bridge.<\/p>\n
Her departure triggered a collapse of four wickets for 17 runs and left five runs needed from the last 10 balls, but number nine Kirstie Gordon and 20-year-old batter Jodi Grewcock held their nerve as the latter struck the winning runs with three balls to spare. <\/p>\n
Sciver-Brunt’s knock, which included six fours and two sixes, ensured the middle-order wobble was not costly, but it was a brilliant solo effort with Grace Scrivens’ 16 the second highest contribution. <\/p>\n
Left-arm spinner Phoebe Brett, 19, was the pick of the Phoenix bowlers, taking 3-19, but they were left to rue a disappointing batting performance that left them defending a below-par total. <\/p>\n
Phoenix’s 123-6 was set up by opener Emma Lamb’s unbeaten 56 from 42 balls, her second fifty of this year’s Hundred and her 17th across all formats as her stellar summer continues. <\/p>\n
But she struggled for support, having lost her opening partner Georgia Voll early for six, and was stuck at the non-striker’s end during a tricky middle phase against the Rockets spinners. Phoenix captain Ellyse Perry departed to Kirstie Gordon for 14 and Amy Jones was tamely caught and bowled by Ash Gardner for nine.<\/p>\n
But Lamb held her nerve to rotate after her side wobbled to 93-5, before a flurry of boundaries from Ailsa Lister and Em Arlott at the death helped them to a positive finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nat Sciver-Brunt’s 52 from 29 balls led Trent Rockets to a consolation three-wicket win over Birmingham Phoenix in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-100281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}