Oval Invincibles cannot qualify for knockout stages of The Hundred after defeat to table toppers Southern Brave; Georgia Adams and Freya Kemp fire with the bat at The Ageas Bowl; Trent Rockets only side that can stop Welsh Fire claiming top-three finish in womens competition
Rockets must win their last match against Invincibles on Monday and hope Fire lose both of theirs to have a chance of overtaking the Cardiff-based outfit on net run-rate.
Rockets edged bottom side Birmingham Phoenix by three runs in Saturday's opening women's game to keep their play-off hopes alive as Bryony Smith impressed with bat and ball.Birmingham Phoenix - 131-4 from 100 balls:Smith struck 64 from 40 deliveries as Rockets posted 134-6 and then conceded only seven of the 11 runs Phoenix required from the final set of five balls at Trent Bridge.
Smith's fifty helped Rockets to 71-1 from 40 balls but they only managed 63-5 from the next 60 as Phoenix fast bowler Emily Arlott took three wickets - including bowling Nat Sciver-Brunt for 18 - and leg-spinner Katie Levick claimed two. Amy Jones kept Phoenix in the chase, slapping Alexa Stonehouse for three fours in a row in the penultimate set of five, while Sterre Kalis then drove Smith through the covers to cut the requirement to seven from four balls.
But Smith shipped only three runs from that point as Phoenix finished on 131-4 and slipped to a sixth defeat in seven games, with their sole point so far this season coming by dint of a washout in the reverse fixture against Rockets.
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