END OF OVER:20 | 3 Runs | WF-W: 122/9 (24 runs required, RR: 6.10)
- Katie Levick8 (8b)
- Shabnim Ismail4 (5b)
- Heather Graham3.5-0-18-1
- Ashleigh Gardner3.5-0-28-2
1:52pm That will be all from us for this game. Lots of stuff lined up in the Hundred, though, and you can catch the women's and men's games here on ESPNcricinfo. Until next time, from Ranjith, Sudeep and myself (Shashwat), it is goodbye!
Ashleigh Gardner, the Trent Rockets captain is also the Player of the Match: That was probably our first well-rounded performance. Did all three disciplines well. Nice to get a couple of wins on the board. We need results to go our way to stay in the competition, but we can only think about controlling what we can do and that is winning games. There were a few dot balls when I was trying to hit it too hard. Wicket was tricky when the pace was taken off. For me, it was about trying to clear the fence (if the ball was in my zone). It has been nice to bat with Nat (Sciver-Brunt) for long periods. (On her bowling and King) This wicket was really conducive to spin. When you took the pace off, that was the trickiest to score boundaries; the quicker ball being the change-up. Good to see the other spinners get wickets too.
1:46pm A fairly comfortable win in the end for the Rockets. It felt they had a slightly above-par score on the board and so it proved. Dunkley top-scored for the hosts with 26, but only one other batter made it past 20. A few of their other batters got starts but no one was able to really capitalize, meaning they never transferred any sort of pressure on the Rockets.
Speaking of the Rockets, there were brief patches where they conceded boundaries. But they found a way back almost always. King bagged three, with Gardner and Gordon snaring two each, and those performances effectively pushed the Welsh Fire out of the game.