{"id":717733,"date":"2026-07-29T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717733\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T18:45:09","slug":"the-hundred-2026-results-ben-duckett-leads-trent-rockets-to-win-over-welsh-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717733\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2026 results: Ben Duckett leads Trent Rockets to win over Welsh Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hundred men’s competition, Sophia Gardens<\/p>\n

Welsh Fire 122-7 (100 balls): Short 36 (26); Santner 3-35<\/p>\n

Trent Rockets 126-1 (72 balls): Duckett 52* (45), Allen 33 (19)<\/p>\n

Trent Rockets won by nine wickets<\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a>. Table<\/a><\/p>\n

Ben Duckett struck an unbeaten half-century as Trent Rockets demolished Welsh Fire by nine wickets in Cardiff to make it two wins from three matches in this season’s Hundred.<\/p>\n

Chasing 123 on a tricky two-paced wicket at Sophia Gardens, the visitors made a solid start through Duckett before Finn Allen picked up the pace with a rapid 33 from 19 balls during a 75-run opening partnership. <\/p>\n

Allen eventually fell to Rachin Ravindra with Rockets needing 48 runs from 56 balls. <\/p>\n

England opener Duckett, however, continued to build a cautious innings, reaching his seventh half-century in the competition’s history in 43 balls. <\/p>\n

Fire’s task of defending a paltry total was not helped by the seven free hits their bowlers conceded and with Tom Banton adding a brisk unbeaten 31 from 15 balls, Rockets reached the target with 28 balls to spare.<\/p>\n

The win sealed a double for Rockets over Fire on Wednesday after their women’s side had also won comfortably earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Batting first, Fire had huffed and puffed to 122-7 after losing Phil Salt and Joe Root early for single figures to Matt Henry’s bowling. <\/p>\n

Matt Short proved to be the only top-order batter to make a meaningful contribution for the home side with 36 from 26 balls. <\/p>\n

New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner then sent back his compatriot Ravindra for 16 before Jordan Cox provided Fire with some late impetus. <\/p>\n

Cox’s knock of 33 from 16 balls included three consecutive sixes off Santner but the left-arm spinner accounted for his wicket from the very next delivery to finish with figures of 3-35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hundred men’s competition, Sophia Gardens Welsh Fire 122-7 (100 balls): Short 36 (26); Santner 3-35 Trent Rockets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}