{"id":89810,"date":"2025-08-24T15:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/89810\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:51:06","slug":"the-hundred-2025-results-alana-king-and-ash-gardner-star-as-trent-rockets-beat-welsh-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/89810\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred 2025 results: Alana King and Ash Gardner star as Trent Rockets beat Welsh Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trent Rockets comfortably beat Welsh Fire by 23 runs to keep their faint qualification hopes alive in The Hundred women&#8217;s competition at Sophia Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rockets successfully defended a competitive 145-6, but they will be eliminated if Manchester Originals beat Birmingham Phoenix in the later game at 14:30 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fire, who were already knocked out, fell short on 122-9 as they struggled for partnerships throughout the innings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They were bamboozled by Rockets&#8217; world-class spinners, Australians Alana King and Ash Gardner, who took five wickets between them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leg-spinner King extracted plenty of turn and grip from the Cardiff surface with 3-17, while Gardner&#8217;s relentless accuracy saw her take the key wickets of Sophia Dunkley for 26 and Hayley Matthews for 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gardner also set up Rockets&#8217; competitive total in a partnership of 67 with England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt during the middle phase of the innings, after Bryony Smith&#8217;s dynamic 38 from 27 balls at the top of the order gave them a useful platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trent Rockets comfortably beat Welsh Fire by 23 runs to keep their faint qualification hopes alive in The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-89810","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\/89810","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=89810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}