The Hundred 2023: Trent Rockets hold nerve to beat Welsh Fire in thriller

Defending champions Trent Rockets boosted their hopes of making the knockouts successful The Hundred men's contention with a four-run triumph implicit Welsh Fire successful Cardiff.

Fire needed 32 disconnected 11 balls earlier Joe Clarke and Glenn Phillips deed sixes to trim the people to 16 disconnected seven.

But some were dismissed, with Rockets picking up their 2nd win.

Rockets ascent to 3rd successful the table, portion Fire, who besides mislaid to Southern Brave connected Saturday, beryllium sixth.

Oval Invincibles apical the array connected 7 points but 5 teams are present locked connected 5 points underneath.

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What other bash you request to know?

• John Turner impressed connected debut for Rockets, taking 1-22 from his 20 balls. He removed Jonny Bairstow aboriginal connected earlier returning to conceded conscionable 17 from his past 10 balls.
• England's Bairstow lone made 3 earlier being bowled. It followed the right-hander making a duck connected his archetypal quality of the 2023 contention connected Saturday.
• Dawid Malan's struggles astatine the apical of the bid continued. The England batter made 10, meaning helium has lone scored 28 successful 4 games.
• Joe Root ramped Jake Ball for six, but was caught down looking to repetition the shot.
• Munro was connected 24 from 21 balls but accelerated successful the last 20 balls of the innings, adding 42 disconnected his past 14 deliveries. Rockets added 51 disconnected their last 20 balls.
• Pakistan's Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf volition present depart Welsh Fire to hole for a bid against Afghanistan, which starts connected 22 August. Shaheen finishes his stint with six wickets and Rauf five. They volition beryllium replaced by New Zealand brace Lockie Ferguson and Matt Henry.

'Nice to get implicit the line' - what they said

Match Hero Colin Munro: "We've got immoderate strikers astatine the extremity truthful we effort and marque definite they get a platform. I'm fortunate immoderate came retired of the mediate due to the fact that It wasn't a beauteous archetypal 20 balls.

"It was bully to get immoderate runs and lend due to the fact that it has been a thin mates of games. It's bully to get that implicit the enactment due to the fact that we've mislaid a mates of adjacent ones.

"I thought John Turner bowled truly good connected debut. It was outstanding the mode helium bowled to Joe Clarke, who is simply a top-class talent."

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