Trent Rockets overcame a late collapse to assert a nervy three-wicket win over Birmingham Phoenix and keep in top-three competition in The Hundred.
A advantageous all-round efficiency from captain Nat Sciver-Brunt, who took 2-16 with the ball then made 34 from 25 balls within the chase, regarded to have set the Rockets up for a snug victory.
However her dismissal, with 24 runs from 28 balls nonetheless required to succeed in their goal of 113, led to a dramatic end during which they misplaced 4-12 to slide to 101-7.
There was then a second of controversy when Josie Groves was caught off a full toss from Emily Arlott with 9 runs wanted, just for the third umpire to adjudge that it was a no-ball on evaluate.
The ball was above waist top when Groves linked with it however she had superior down the pitch.
That introduced it right down to seven wanted and Groves proceeded to hit the successful runs with three balls to spare.
Phoenix had earlier been saved by a 95-run partnership between opener Sterre Kalis and Richa Ghosh – the very best fourth-wicket stand in The Hundred ladies’s competitors – after they slumped to 9-3 after 15 balls.
Victory for the Rockets lifts them to fourth, stage on factors with Northern Superchargers in third, with one spherical of video games remaining within the group stage.
Rockets face second-placed Oval Invincibles on Wednesday and a fourth win in a row will see them advance.
Defeat for Phoenix means they’re eradicated.
