Summary

  • Wong gives Phoenix hope with late hitting before being caught by Brunt

  • Brunt deceives Verma with brilliant yorker

  • Graham hits 44 off 21 balls in Phoenix's 145-5

  • Wong taken out of bowling attack for two waist-high full tosses

Live Reporting

Timothy Abraham

  1. Rockets 68-1

    Seven taken by Nat Sciver and Katherine Brunt off that set from Abtaha Maqsood.

  2. Alison Mitchell
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    That could be a very costly drop for the Birmingham Phoenix.

  3. dropped catch

    Dropped catch

    A miscue from Nat Sciver off Abtaha Maqsood and the ball spoons up to mid-off where Eve Jones spills the chance.

    Will Sciver make the Phoenix pay?

  4. 50 balls to go graphicBBC Sport

  5. Rockets 61-2

    Kirstie Gordon with a tight set of left-arm spin puts the brakes on Trent Rockets who will need Nat Sciver and Katherine Brunt to get going soon.

  6. New batter: Katherine Brunt

    Katherine BruntBBC Sport

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

    It was a brave call for Emily Arlott to go for that catch. Amy Jones has the gloves on and could have got there, but she trusts Arlott and she does well.

  8. wicket

    WICKET

    Priest c & b Arlott 18

    Rachel Priest skies one off Emily Arlott. Bowler and wicketkeeper Amy Jones exchange glances before Arlott takes ownership of the catch and safely pouches it. Jones gives her a cheeky smile afterwards and the pair chuckle. Safe hands from Arlott.

  9. Rockets 55-1

    Fascinating little battle between Nat Sciver and Abtaha Maqsood. The Phoneix spinner whistles through her 10 balls for 10 runs.

  10. Rockets 53-1

    Abtaha Maqsood, into her second set of five, loops a full toss down to Nat Sciver, who makes no mistake clinically whacking it to the boundary for four.

  11. New batter: Nat Sciver

    Nat SciverBBC Sport

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

    Abtaha Maqsood did that to get rid of Sophia Dunkley in the last game and neither time was deliberate! She's misfielded the ball and it has backfired onto the stumps to run out the non-striking batter.

    This one came off her boot, it could have gone anywhere!

  13. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentator

    That is unbelievable. What a way for Sammy-Jo Johnson to get out.

  14. wicket

    WICKET

    Johnson run out (Maqsood) 29

    Rachel Priest belts Abtaha Maqsood down the ground but the Phoniex wrist spinner is able to deflect the ball off her boot and into the stumps at the non-striker's end and Sammy-Jo Johnson is out of her ground backing up.

    That's the second time Maqsood has done that in The Hundred!

  15. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentator

    Kirstie Gordon has achieved the rare feat of playing international cricket for two countries: Scotland and England.

  16. Kirstie Gordon into the attack for the Phoenix now.

  17. 75 to go

  18. Rockets 37-0

    Issy Wong with the final set of the power play. Third ball and Sammy-Jo Johnson attempts a shot to leg but ends up with an inside edge which races through third man for four.

    A ball later she crashes it down the ground for a powerfully-struck four. As my colleague Stephan Shemilt noted on 5 Live Sports Extra: "There was no element of fortune about that one".

  19. Rockets 25-0

    Georgia Elwiss into the attack and Rachel Priest skies one straight down the ground. Two Phoenix fielders scamper round but are unable to get there in time to claim the catch. Priest breathes a sigh of relief.

  20. Alison Mitchell
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Birmingham Phoenix will be desperate for an early wicket, because when you look at Trent Rockets' batting order, it's hard to see how they've only managed one win so far.