The Hundred 2025 – Nat Sciver-Brunt Stars as Trent Rockets secure first win

Nat Sciver-Brunt’s ninth career fifty powered Trent Rockets to a dominant first win in The Hundred 2025 after two early defeats in the tournament.

Match Analysis

After defeats in their first two games, Trent Rockets got their campaign up and running with an impressive all-round display at Lord’s, shaped around Nat Sciver-Brunt’s ninth career half-century in The Hundred and her second in this year’s tournament.
The Spirit came into the match riding high with three wins from three, but they were immediately on the back foot as Rockets’ openers Bryony Smith and Nat Wraith blazed away, adding 62 in just 36 balls – combining for nine fours and two sixes – before both fell in quick succession to the canny medium pace of Eva Gray.

Sciver-Brunt and Ash Gardner then added 60 in 42 balls to maintain the momentum, and despite Issy Wong coming back brilliantly in her final two sets and Sarah Glenn bowling with great class to concede just 20 runs, the Rockets were always ahead of the game.    

 
Gray ended up with four wickets – a career-best in the tournament – but Sciver-Brunt finished things in style with her fourth six of the tournament, pumped over long-on from the final ball of the innings to bring up her fifty from just 29 balls.
In reply the Spirit never got going, losing wickets at regular intervals, and when the in-form Australian superstar Grace Harris holed out to deep mid-wicket for just 8 to give the miserly left-armer Kirstie Gordon the first of her four wickets, their chase fizzled out. Some spirited hitting from Charli Knott (33 from 25) put some gloss on the final score, but the contest had long been settled by then. 

Ash Gardner’s brilliance was again fully on show; two more wickets for the Aussie all-rounder, who bowled beautifully in the middle overs in tandem with her compatriot Alana King, gave further notice that if the Rockets’ big players can run into form together, they will still, despite their slow start, take some stopping this year.

Meerkat Match Hero, Nat Sciver-Brunt said: “It feels brilliant [to get that first win of the tournament], we were all really excited to play at Lord’s, what a ground. And then to get some points on the board – we feel like we’ve done well in patches [in the first two games] but it was really good to put it all together today.

“Ash Gardner is massively important to us, she’s our key all-rounder and she’s really leading us, and putting her foot on it.”

Match Summary

London Spirit (Women) vs Trent Rockets (Women), Match 13

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Match Stats

Trent Rockets (Women) Fall of wickets: 1-62 (Natasha Wraith – 7.1 ov), 2-63 (Bryony Smith – 7.4 ov), 3-123 (Ashleigh Gardner – 16.1 ov), 4-129 (Heather Graham – 17.1 ov), 5-129 (Emma Jones – 17.2 ov), 6-134 (Alana King – 18.3 ov)

London Spirit (Women) Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Kira Chathli – 4.4 ov), 2-36 (Georgia Redmayne – 6.3 ov), 3-53 (Cordelia Griffith – 8.3 ov), 4-61 (Grace Harris – 10.1 ov), 5-67 (Danielle Gibson – 11.2 ov), 6-70 (Issy Wong – 12.2 ov), 7-95 (Charlotte Dean – 14.5 ov), 8-95 (Sarah Glenn – 15.1 ov), 9-115 (Eva Gray – 18.3 ov), 10-116 (Charli Knott – 18.5 ov)

Leading the way ??

Grace Harris tops the @Sure Sixes leaderboard in #TheHundred women’s competition ?? pic.twitter.com/QyqYNIqWrV

— The Hundred (@thehundred) August 14, 2025

Playing XI

London Spirit (Women)

Trent Rockets (Women)

Match Details:

Date: Thursday, August 14, 2025 15:00

Venue: Lord’s, London

Toss: London Spirit (Women) elected to bowl

Umpires: James Middlebrook (England), Russell Warren (England), Anna Harris (England TV)

Match Referee: Steve Davis (Australia)

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