Girls’s Hundred, Lord’sTrent Rockets 151-4 (100 balls): Priest 76 (42), Sciver 32 (16); Davies 1-19London Spirit 132-7 (100 balls): Knight 31 (25), Dottin 29 (19); Higham 2-15Trent Rockets received by 18 runs Scorecard; Desk
Trent Rockets picked up their first win within the ladies’s Hundred with an 18-run victory towards London Spirit at Lord’s, hitting the very best rating within the competitors to date within the course of.
Rockets made 151-4 with opener Rachel Priest smashing 76 off 42 balls and captain Nat Sciver making a blistering 16-ball 32.
Priest, who was dropped on 44, hit 64 of her runs in boundaries as she dominated the Spirit bowlers in entrance of 10,579 followers at Lord’s.
Spirit misplaced common wickets all through, regardless of a few dropped catches by Rockets, to complete on 132-7.
London Spirit sit fifth and Trent Rockets sixth within the eight-team desk.
The identical two groups meet within the males’s competitors at 18:30 BST.
‘Right now was see ball, hit ball’
Priest was a late substitute for Trent Rockets, with their preliminary Australian abroad gamers pulling out of the event, and it’s honest to say she hadn’t fairly come to the get together in her first two video games.
Within the interval, Priest, who retired from New Zealand obligation 13 months in the past, mentioned she is a “notoriously sluggish starter” at franchise tournaments, and with two scores of 4 to date, this was her actual introduction.
She hit three early fours, earlier than a belligerent, brutal, and totally sensational spell of opening batting began when South Africa all-rounder Chloe Tryon got here into the assault.
A leg-side full toss was clubbed over the square-leg boundary, one other was smacked over mid-wicket, earlier than a good looking steer by means of level.
Extra adopted off Heather Knight, earlier than a tricky alternative was dropped on 44 by Tammy Beaumont, off Danielle Gibson, who was diving ahead at deep mid-wicket.
The drop price Spirit one other 32 runs, as Priest continued her assault, hitting cleanly by means of the leg aspect and down the bottom to edge in the direction of the event’s first century, earlier than a wonderful Beaumont catch noticed her dismissed for the second-highest rating within the ladies’s competitors to date.
“It was very nice to get some runs,” mentioned Priest. “I used to be a bit scrambled within the first couple of video games, and at the moment was about see ball and hit ball.”
Rachel Priest scored 64 of her 76 runs in boundaries
‘What we name a sitter’
Rockets’ margin of victory could have been better if they’d taken a few the alternatives that had been introduced.
Knight was dropped at deep square-leg on 10 by Lucy Higham, and it was an opportunity that ought to have been taken.
Simply 9 balls later, an excellent larger alternative was missed, with Deandra Dottin dropped at level by Abi Freeborn.
Chris Inexperienced, the Middlesex-all-rounder talking on BBC Radio 5 Stay Sports activities Further, mentioned the possibility was “what we name a sitter”.
These two drops, added to Beaumont’s earlier, alongside some poor misfields, had been low factors, however Rockets progressively improved, with Kathryn Bryce and Emily Windsor taking good diving catches, at nice leg and deep sq. leg respectively, to dismiss Deepti Sharma and Tryon.
