Trent Rockets extend perfect start against Northern Superchargers

Akeal Hosein took two early wickets before Marcis Stoinis struck twice in as many balls to restrict the visitors to 124 for 9 before Rockets survived a stutter on a dry surface in the chase to win by five wickets

ECB Media | 10/08/2025 at 20:55

Trent Bridge: Northern Superchargers 124-9, Trent Rockets 128-5 - Trent Rockets won by five wickets

Trent Rockets beat Northern Superchargers by five wickets at Trent Bridge to continue their 100 per cent start to The Hundred this season.

In front of their home fans at Trent Bridge for the first time this campaign, Rockets – who beat Birmingham Phoenix at Edgbaston on Friday – restricted Andrew Flintoff's Superchargers to 124 for 9 from their 100 balls and won by five wickets with relative lack of alarm, though Superchargers did well to take the game deep.

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^{Rehan Ahmed marshalled the chase with 31 before he fell during a late innings wobble (ECB Media)}

Runs were perhaps expected given the weather and the manner in which Superchargers women's team batted in the day's first game, but on a dry surface, the ball gripped and few batters seemed able to bat with much freedom. That meant the Rockets never ran away with the chase, but they had enough to see it home with four balls to spare.

With the ball, spinners Akeal Hosein and Rehan Ahmed took two wickets apiece for the hosts and never allowed the Superchargers to get going, though it was Australian all-rounder Marcus Stoinis who broke the most crucial partnership, that of top-scorer Harry Brook and Graham Clark, who put on 56.

Stoinis would go on to take two wickets in two balls, and conceded no runs from his five balls.

It was a similar tale when it was time for Superchargers to defend, with Imad Wasim taking two wickets in two balls, and three overall, and Adil Rashid giving next to nothing away alongside two scalps, but Stoinis and Adam Hose scrambled Trent Rockets home with four balls remaining in front of 13,497 happy home fans.