Summary

  • Hales (40 off 34 balls) takes Rockets from 85-7 to thrilling victory

  • Superchargers bowled out for 132

  • Simpson (42) & Brook (38) top score

  • Rockets have now won two out of two

  • Root & Stokes playing last game before England Test duty

Live Reporting

Timothy Abraham and Jack Skelton

  1. Rockets 80-6

    Rashid Khan hits Adil Rashid for back-to-back boundaries down the ground! First he flays him through the covers for four, then hits him back over his head for six. Leg-spinner to leg-spinner.

  2. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentator

    I cannot remember the last time I saw Adil Rashid bowl badly. I'd say he's England's most dependable player at the moment.

  3. Adil Rashid again.

  4. Alex Hartley
    Manchester Originals bowler on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    You'd usually say Alex Hales should just hit out or get out. But he can't afford to get out with his side six wickets down. This is not the Hales we all know.

  5. Rockets 70-6

    Rashid Khan, who earlier get off the mark with a boundary, finds the fence again when he flashes it through gully off Brydon Carse. The rest of the set from Carse is pretty tidy, including two dot balls.

  6. Rockets 63-6

    We have a strategic timeout.

  7. Alex Hartley
    Manchester Originals bowler on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    I've changed my mind. I said Trent Rockets would win at the halfway point. But I'm saying Northern Superchargers from here.

  8. New batter: Rashid Khan

    Trent Rockets' Rashid KhanBBC Sport

  9. Alex Hartley
    Manchester Originals bowler on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    That is so good from Callum Parkinson. He bowled it a bit quicker into the pitch.

    Callum ParkinsonGetty Images
  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Gregory b Parkinson 13 (Rockets 58-6)

    Callum Parkinson roars with delight and then gets a high five from Ben Stokes. Lewis Gregory goes for a huge swipe across the line but is done by a change of pace and misses it.

  11. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentator

    If David Willey had taken that, it would've been an absolute wordlie. Instead, Lewis Gregory has got Trent Rockets moving.

  12. Rockets 57-5

    That's more like it for the Rockets. Lewis Gregory slaps a four down the ground off Mujeeb Ur Rahman and then hoiks it through mid-wicket for six. David Willey almost takes a brilliant catch but it goes over the boundary.

  13. Here's that Joe Root dismissal from earlier.

  14. Rockets 43-5

    Alex Hales cannot get going. He's moving around the crease to Ben Stokes but this is not the explosive stuff we are used to from the opener. Hales is 10 off 19 balls.

    Worm

  15. 50 ballsBBC Sport

  16. New batter: Lewis Gregory

    Trent Rockets' Lewis GregoryBBC Sport

  17. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Ben Stokes didn't need to turn around to appeal for that one. It was so out.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Moores c Simpson b Stokes 9 (Rockets 41-5)

    Tom Moores is drawn into feathering the ball to John Simpson from a delivery which talked off the back of the length from Ben Stokes. The Superchargers must be in the box seat now?

  19. Rockets 39-4

    Ben Stokes into the attack for the Superchargers. Tom Moores and Alex Hales are able to work him for singles.

  20. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    What a spell of bowling from Adil Rashid.

    He's bowled 10 balls, got two wickets and only conceded one run.

    Those are ludicrous figures.