Rockets survive late fightback to beat Sunrisers

The Hundred women's competition, Trent Bridge

Trent Rockets 139-7 (100 balls): Dunkley 56 (33); Jonassen 2-20

Sunrisers Leeds 134-5 (100 balls): Sutherland 59* (30); Phillips 1-10

Trent Rockets won by 5 runs

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Trent Rockets held disconnected a precocious battle from Annabel Sutherland and Lauren Winfield-Hill to bushed defending champions Sunrisers Leeds by 5 runs and widen their winning streak to 3 matches.

Defending 139 astatine Trent Bridge aft failing to capitalise connected Sophia Dunkley's 29-ball half-century, economical bowling helped Rockets trim Sunrisers to 76-4.

However, with 55 runs required disconnected the last 20 balls, Sutherland dispatched Georgia Elwiss for 23 runs, including sending 2 afloat tosses distant for six, to resistance Sunrisers backmost into the match.

She and Winfield-Hill reduced the equation to 17 disconnected 5 but erstwhile the second was tally retired with 3 deliveries remaining, she took Sunrisers' hopes of triumph with her.

Sutherland finished the lucifer with a six to extremity unbeaten connected 59 (30), with her concern with Winfield-Hill (15) worthy 50 disconnected conscionable 27 deliveries.

Earlier, Rockets had appeared good acceptable for a sizeable full aft Dunkley backed up her 57 against Manchester Super Giants connected Friday with a sound of 56 (33), including 9 fours, earlier being bowled by Sutherland.

Nat Sciver-Brunt and Ashleigh Gardner concisely maintained the pressure, including taking Dani Gibson's 2nd acceptable for 18 to transportation Rockets beyond 3 figures disconnected conscionable 65 balls, but Sunrisers fought backmost with the ball.

Jess Jonassen and Hannah Baker took 2 wickets apiece arsenic Rockets slumped from 105-2 to 118-6, with the hosts besides failing to deed a bound for 32 deliveries arsenic their hopes of a 150-plus full faded.

A trio of fours from Bess Heath successful the last acceptable proved crucial, putting Rockets' full conscionable retired of Sunrisers' reach.

Trent Rockets' 4th triumph of the tourney moves them to wrong 4 points of unbeaten Southern Brave astatine the apical of the table. Sunrisers Leeds, who are without a triumph since their opener, gaffe to seventh.