Spirit's Winning Run Ended By Resurgent Rockets

The Hundred women's competition, Lord's

Trent Rockets 149-6 (100 balls): Sciver-Brunt 51* (29); Gray 4-19

London Spirit 116 (95 balls): Knott 33 (25); Gordon 4-15

Rockets won by 33 runs

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Defending women's champions London Spirit's winning streak came to an extremity arsenic they suffered a 33-run conclusion by Trent Rockets successful The Hundred astatine Lord's.

Set a target of 150 to win, Spirit slumped to 116 each retired arsenic spinner Kirstie Gordon starred pinch 4-19 for nan visitors, who picked up their first triumph this year.

Kira Chathli and Georgia Redmayne added a diligent 26 for nan first wicket earlier Spirit slipped to 70-6, including in-form Australia batter Grace Harris departing for conscionable eight.

Fellow Australian Charli Knott's 33 was nan only sound to rescue Spirit from a complete capitulation arsenic spinners Ash Gardner and Gordon bowled beautifully successful tandem, nan erstwhile finishing pinch 2-14.

Earlier, England skipper Nat Sciver-Brunt group up nan Rockets' challenging 149-6, scoring an unbeaten 51 from 29 balls, aft Bryony Smith bludgeoned 42 from 23 astatine nan apical of nan order.

Smith added 62 successful conscionable 35 balls pinch chap opener Nat Wraith, but Rockets were pegged backmost arsenic some were dismissed successful nan abstraction of 3 balls by seamer Eva Gray.

Sciver-Brunt mixed pinch Australia all-rounder Gardner for a guidelines of 60, though a illness of 4 wickets for 11 runs astatine nan decease saw Spirit conflict backmost powerfully arsenic Gray vanished pinch awesome figures of 4-19.

But Sciver-Brunt reached her 50 pinch a six disconnected Charlie Dean from nan past shot of nan Rockets' innings, pushing them to nan competitory full and adding to a difficult time for nan Spirit skipper arsenic she vanished pinch figures of 0-40 from conscionable 15 balls.

The triumph keeps Southern Brave astatine nan apical of nan array arsenic Rockets break their duck, leaving Welsh Fire arsenic nan only winless broadside successful nan women's tournament.

After consecutive defeats, Rockets needed performances from their elder players to get their run connected way and Sciver-Brunt and Gardner delivered.

They were helped by Smith and Wraith's move start, punishing Spirit's bowlers for bowling excessively short and wide. Smith was nan aggressor, pinch 7 fours and a six, earlier she was brilliantly caught connected nan bound by England's Dani Gibson.

Sciver-Brunt delivered a masterclass successful nan mediate shape arsenic she picked nan gaps perfectly, manipulating nan section pinch her trademark sweeps and unveiling a glorious lofted thrust complete other screen for six disconnected Dean.

However, she was starved of nan onslaught aft Gardner departed, arsenic Gray removed Heather Graham and Emma Jones successful consecutive deliveries.

Spirit's resurgence, led by Gray and backed up by awesome catches from Gibson, Glenn and Dean, kept them successful nan crippled aft Rockets had threatened a overmuch higher total, but they were incapable to find immoderate fluency pinch nan bat, raising concerns astir their dependency connected Harris.

Their overseas prima has 165 runs astatine an mean of 82.5 this year, while nan remainder of nan apical 7 has contributed 227 runs, averaging conscionable 12.6.

Northern Superchargers' women will beryllium looking to support nan unit connected nan apical 2 arsenic they return connected Birmingham Phoenix astatine 15:00 BST.

The men's crippled follows astatine 18:30 BST pinch Phoenix hoping to stitchery momentum aft they hit leaders Oval Invincibles successful their astir caller crippled connected Tuesday.

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