Rockets Beat Invincibles To Keep Slim Hopes Alive

The Hundred women's competition, The Oval

Oval Invincibles 109-7 (100 balls): Lanning 45 (35); Gardner 2-10

Trent Rockets 113-4 (84 balls): Scrivens 34 (27); Capsey 1-16

Rockets won by six wickets

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Trent Rockets kept their slim qualification hopes live pinch a six-wicket triumph complete Oval Invincibles successful The Hundred women's competition.

Rockets made difficult activity of chasing conscionable 110 astatine The Kia Oval aft a flurry of middle-order wickets, but Heather Graham held her nervus pinch an unbeaten 19 from 11 balls and they reached their target pinch 16 balls to spare.

The visitors had a flying commencement from Bryony Smith and Grace Scrivens, who added 51 successful 35 balls together, but nan Invincibles fought backmost to region Smith for 24 and claimed nan immense wickets of Nat Sciver-Brunt for 2 and Ash Gardner for 11.

Scrivens past fell for 34 but Graham and Jodi Grewcock, pinch 21 not out, settled nan Rockets' nerves and sealed their first triumph against nan Invincibles.

In opposition to nan Rockets' accelerated start, Invincibles crawled to 13-1 from their powerplay, which included 16 dot balls, arsenic skipper Lauren Winfield-Hill fell for 7 from 14.

Former Australia skipper Meg Lanning revived nan innings arsenic she kicked connected to 45 from 35 balls, but Ash Gardner changed nan people of nan crippled arsenic she dismissed Lanning and Marizanne Kapp successful nan abstraction of 3 balls.

Paige Scholfield whacked nan past shot for six to return Invincibles to 109-7 but her 16 not retired was nan 2nd highest people of nan innings arsenic they grounded to put partnerships together throughout.

Both Rockets and Invincibles, who are two-time winners, request to triumph each of their remaining games and still dream for different results to spell their way.

It's a bottommost of nan array title successful nan women's Hundred arsenic Welsh Fire, who are already eliminated, return connected Birmingham Phoenix astatine Edgbaston astatine 15:00 BST.

The men's crippled follows astatine 18:30 BST pinch Fire needing a triumph to support their very slim qualification hopes live while a triumph for Phoenix, who are fifth, would boost their top-three chances.

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