The Hundred ladies’s competitors, Edgbaston
Birmingham Phoenix 64 all out (95 balls): Perry 39 (33); Bates 3-10
Trent Rockets 68-1 (31 balls): Dunkley 43* (17); Filer 1-17
Rockets received by 9 wickets
Birmingham Phoenix had been bowled out for simply 64 by Trent Rockets because the bowler-dominated begin to The Hundred continued at Edgbaston.
Ellyse Perry performed a lone hand together with her 39 as no different batter made it to double figures in a dire efficiency.
It was the joint second-lowest complete within the Girls’s Hundred, and Phoenix additionally maintain the file for the bottom once they had been skittled for 54 towards Northern Superchargers (now Sunrisers Leeds) in 2024.
Oval Invincibles (now MI London) additionally made 64 towards Superchargers in the identical yr.
Debutant Samantha Bates – an uncapped Australian spinner – was the choose of Rockets’ bowlers with 3-10 whereas seamer Georgia Elwiss took 3-13.
On one other bowler-friendly floor, Australia’s Kim Garth additionally bowled a miserly spell of 2-5 and leg-spinner Katie Levick took 1-8.
England batter Sophia Dunkley dominated the chase with 43 from 17 balls because it took Rockets simply 31 balls to achieve their goal to finish a completely one-sided contest.
It has been a battle for batters in all 4 matches to date. London Spirit had been bowled out for 80 of their first match on Thursday whereas the best complete has been Southern Courageous’s 126, which they efficiently defended towards Welsh Hearth.
Rockets’ solely blemish was Ash Gardner’s drop of Perry on 9, which might seemingly have resulted in much more humiliation for Phoenix as their captain was the one one to show that the pitch was not a whole thriller.
