The Hundred: Trent Rockets safe top-spot; Welsh Fire lose eighth recreation in row to finish season pointless

Table toppers Trent Rockets beat all-time low Welsh Fire at Trent Bridge; hosts wrap up top-three spot as toiling guests stoop to eighth defeat out of eight to finish season with zero factors; Dawid Malan hits fourth fifty of the season for flying Rockets

Top trounced backside in The Hundred as Trent Rockets secured a top-three spot and Welsh Fire tumbled to an eighth straight defeat…

Story of the match

The two sides may barely have had extra contrasting seasons. For Rockets, it’s six wins out of eight and qualification for the knockout phases later this week. For Fire, it’s zero factors and an early exit.

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Rockets slammed 172-4 from their 100 balls – Dawid Malan top-scoring with 57 from 38 deliveries – earlier than Fire made 143-6 in reply as Matt Critchley hit 55 not out from 35 balls.

Spinners Tabraiz Shamsi (2-12 off 20 balls) and Samit Patel (2-23 off 20 balls) plus seamer Sam Cook (2-36 from 20 balls) shared six wickets in a 29-run victory for the house facet.

Rockets will qualify immediately for the ultimate as desk toppers if London Spirit don’t beat Birmingham Phoenix on Tuesday night or if Spirit do win however fail to take their internet run-rate above Rockets’.

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Check out the most effective bits of Malan’s 58 off 37 balls towards Welsh Fire – his fourth half-century of The Hundred season

Fire are the primary facet to lose all their matches in a single Hundred marketing campaign. They have been hit by the withdrawal of Jonny Bairstow on the eve of the event as he focussed on resting forward of England’s Test sequence towards South Africa and in his absence they’ve floundered with the bat.

Rockets, although, have flourished, with the runs of Malan (a tournament-leading 358 in eight innings) and Alex Hales (251 in eight knocks) essential.

Against Fire, Malan hit his fourth fifty of the season and Hales 38 from 29 balls – the pair sharing a gap stand of 89 from 58 balls, throughout which Hales shrugged off being struck within the ribs by George Scrimshaw.

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Watch this good crowd catch after Colin Munro smacked an unlimited most for Trent Rockets of their Hundred match towards Welsh Fire

Daniel Sams (31 off 14) and Colin Munro (22no off 11) performed boundary-laden cameos, with Munro’s six caught within the crowd by an alert fan.

In reply, Fire’s batting troubles got here to mild once more as wickets tumbled – Tom Banton (9), Joe Clarke (15) and David Miller (5) as soon as once more failing to make scores of substance, leaving Ben Duckett to chip with 25 and Critchley to attain simply the second fifty by a Fire batter this time period.

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Matt Critchley scored Welsh Fire’s second fifty of the season within the defeat to Trent Rockets at Trent Bridge

Match Hero, Dawid Malan (58 off 37 balls, 3×4 3×6)

The Rockets batter stated: “You want to contribute to winning games. It’s pointless scoring runs and not winning so if I can keep contributing to winning games that’s the goal.

“The level of the group phases is to get to the final three and hopefully we get straight via to the ultimate and get ourselves a time without work.

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Match Hero Malan discusses his high-quality kind and the nice spirit throughout the Trent Rockets camp

“We have a good bunch of guys, everyone knows each other, it’s a similar squad to last year with a lot of the Nottinghamshire boys.It’s going really well and when you win it creates a good environment.”

Darren Gough informed Sky Sports: “Malan is so elegant to watch. He can clip the ball over midwicket but his other shot is that cover drive.

“When he is taking part in effectively and his toes are shifting, there isn’t any higher sight than a Malan cowl drive.”

What’s subsequent?

Spirit vs Phoenix

August 30, 2022, 2:30pm

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Spirit vs Phoenix

August 30, 2022, 6:00pm

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The play-off battle continues at Lord’s on Tuesday as London Spirit host Birmingham Phoenix (6pm on Sky Sports The Hundred ahead of a 6.30pm start). Spirit will qualify for the top three if they win, while 2021 runners-up Phoenix need victory to keep their dwindling hopes alive.

Earlier in the day in the women’s competition, the equation is simple for Phoenix. They will secure a top-three spot if they beat or tie with Spirit.

What’s next for Fire?

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With Welsh Fire men enduring a horror campaign in The Hundred, Sky Sports’ Dominic Cork and Simon Doull pick their potential squad for 2023 – and even suggest Eoin Morgan could be head coach!

In some pre-game fun, Simon Doull and Dominic Cork looked at a potential squad for Fire in 2023, with both wanting an influx of Glamorgan cricketers next term. None of Fire’s 2022 squad are current Glamorgan players.

Doull said: “I believe it wants an entire reshuffle. They have no Glamorgan gamers. Where is their identification? All the opposite franchises have an identification with gamers followers already know. You can not inform me Glamorgan haven’t got gamers ok for The Hundred.”

Doull and Cork’s Welsh Fire squad for 2023 (abroad gamers in daring)

• Jonny Bairstow (centrally-contracted England participant)
• Sam Northeast
• Prem Sisodiya
• Kiran Carlson
• Dan Douthwaite
• Michael Hogan
• Leus du Plooy
• Ben Duckett
• Jake Ball
• George Scrimshaw
• Matt Critchley
• Ross Whiteley/Jordan Thompson
• Adam Lyth
• Babar Azam
• Adam Zampa/Ish Sodhi
• Shanawaz Dahani

Watch each match from The Hundred this summer season stay on Sky Sports.

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