Sciver-Brunt guides Rockets to Hundred knockouts

The Hundred women's competition, The Oval

MI London 121-5 (100 balls): Chathli 31 (27); Bates 3-13

Trent Rockets 125-1 (82 balls): Sciver-Brunt 67 (36); Norris 1-26

Trent Rockets won by 9 wickets

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Nat Sciver-Brunt made a stylish unbeaten 67 arsenic Trent Rockets booked their spot successful the knockout signifier of The Hundred with an emphatic nine-wicket triumph implicit MI London.

Sciver-Brunt deed 9 fours and 1 six successful her sound disconnected 36 balls, which helped the Rockets pursuit down 122 for triumph astatine The Oval.

It was the England captain's archetypal 50 successful this year's tourney and her 11th successful The Hundred overall.

Sciver-Brunt shared a tourney grounds second-wicket basal of 118 with Australian Beth Mooney, who finished connected 54 not retired disconnected 44 balls, arsenic the Rockets breezed past the people with 18 balls to spare.

Victory for the Rockets puts them 4 points supra second-placed Southern Brave, who look Manchester Super Giants aboriginal successful the day.

The Rockets look Brave successful their last radical lucifer successful a crippled which could good determine who progresses straight to the final.

Earlier, Samantha Bates had taken 3-13 to assistance restrict MI to a humble 121-5.

Bates had the unsafe Hayley Matthews lbw for 10 aboriginal connected past the left-arm spinner claimed 2 wickets successful 2 balls to permission MI struggling astatine 49-4.

Bates trapped apical scorer Kira Chathli lbw for 31 earlier Nicola Carey was stumped adjacent shot pursuing a astute portion of glovework by Beth Mooney.

The 30-year-old Aussie thought she had a hat-trick erstwhile Alice Monaghan was fixed retired lbw, lone for the determination to beryllium overturned connected reappraisal with the shot sliding down leg.

Monaghan and Chinelle Henry led the fightback - some players finishing unbeaten connected 27 disconnected 21 balls - arsenic they helped MI retrieve to station a respectable if not particularly challenging full arsenic Rockets cruised to triumph with plentifulness to spare.