The Hundred men’s competition, Old Trafford<\/p>\n
Manchester Super Giants 137-3 (100 balls): Buttler 55* (37); Overton 3-23<\/p>\n
Trent Rockets 140-4 (87 balls): Allen 72 (35); Atkinson 2-27<\/p>\n
Trent Rockets won by six wickets<\/p>\n
Scorecard<\/a>. Table<\/a><\/p>\n Finn Allen struck an unbeaten 72 as Trent Rockets beat Manchester Super Giants by six wickets to leapfrog their opponents and move top of the Hundred table.<\/p>\n Chasing 138, opener Allen struck 11 fours and two sixes in his 35-ball innings, leading Rockets to victory with 13 balls remaining at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n Despite their modest target, Rockets did not accelerate towards it until Allen’s back-to-back six and four off Josh Tongue after the 75-ball mark consolidated their position.<\/p>\n Ben Duckett was bowled by Gus Atkinson after two balls of the chase, attempting to ramp, while Tom Banton (10) and Tim David (4) also failed to fire.<\/p>\n Sam Billings was Rockets’ next-highest scorer on 26, while Mitchell Santner struck an unbeaten 24 including a winning four as Rockets closed on 140-4.<\/p>\n Jos Buttler top-scored for Super Giants with an unbeaten 55 from 37 balls to move 24 runs of the all-time T20 run-scoring record.<\/p>\n The home side’s final partnership of 81 from 57 deliveries, with Leus du Plooy striking 40 not out from 28 balls, took them to 137-3, a total they were unable to defend.<\/p>\n The match started with five sides level on eight points and separated by net run-rate at the top of the standings, with second-placed Rockets now moving clear at the top by four points and Super Giants slipping to second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hundred men’s competition, Old Trafford Manchester Super Giants 137-3 (100 balls): Buttler 55* (37); Overton 3-23 Trent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-722138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722138","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=722138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}