The Hundred 2025: Trent Rockets launches the campaign with an effortless victory over Birmingham Phoenix | Cricket news

Trent Rockets launched their campaign in the competition of hundreds of male with an effortless victory over Birmingham Phoenix in Edgbaston on Friday evening.

Phoenix finished his sleeves with 122-6, but that was never enough, and the team of David Willey’s Rockets was led to a comfortable six-checking victory by a very bowling effort led by Lockie Ferguson (3-20) and a prosecution against Tom Banton (42 of 29).

The hero of Meerkat’s match, Lockie Ferguson, said: “It was a good night, I started with Dave. The boys beat very well and gave a reasonable total for the strikers.

“The short border on the legs side was intimidating for sure, but the boys looked at the changes and hit the Yorker well. We got the first counters that really helped us through the middle.”

Invited to Bowl First, the attack on the Rockets made the breakthroughs early, removing the first three of Phoenix from Ben Duckett, Will Smedé and Aneurin Donald leave the 24-3 side after the power game of 25 balls.

Sam Cook’s brilliant work on his own bowling alley to exhaust Jacob Bethell left Phoenix in shock, but a provocative partnership Liam Livingstone (39) and Joe Clarke (29) led a reconstruction. Livingstone played a captain, hitting three six in his stay of 30 balls, while Clarke fought for master’s degree; A brilliant set of Ferguson removed them both.

Despite some tight rockets from the death of the bowling alley, a few late strokes of Dan Mousley and Benny Howell brought Phoenix closer to a respectable total.

In response, although Tim Southee (2-36) played Joe’s root at first, the Rockets began aggressively against the Kiwi speed trio. Banton and Rehan Ahmed (25 out of 16) struck vigorous blows to quickly bring the races necessary for a racing race.

Although Hmed and Banton were both removed by Benny Howell (2-25), which was the choice of the Phoenix Bowllers, Max Holden (22 of 13) conducted the Rockets at home comfortably with 22 balls to lose.

On their match against northern super chargers on Sunday, Ferguson added: “It is a reversal of a day before playing super-chargers, so we are extending them tomorrow. They are another strong side that has played the other evening. It is important to go and present a program in front of our fans at home.”

How do correspondences work?

• One hundred team balls, the team with the most points wins. It’s as simple as that.
• Five quitters can play up to 20 sleeve balls, including five or 10 in a row.
• The traditional six -balls observed in other forms of cricket are not used in the hundred, with 10 balls overturned before a change of end.
• The PowerPlay is for the first 25 balls in a round, with only two field players authorized outside the circle of 30 yards.
• A game of 25 balls per side is the minimum duration that can be played in case of wet time.
• If a match in the direct elimination stages is equal, a super 5 will be played, the winner being the team marking the most points of five other balls each.

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