{"id":37837,"date":"2026-08-16T16:17:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=37837"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:17:58","slug":"rockets-crush-sunrisers-for-first-womens-hundred-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=37837","title":{"rendered":"Rockets crush Sunrisers for first women&#039;s Hundred title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Rockets could become the first team to win both men&#039;s and women&#039;s trophies in the same edition<\/p>\n<p>The Hundred women&#039;s competition: Final, Lord&#039;s<\/p>\n<p>Sunrisers Leeds 91 (91 balls): Sutherland 25 (23); Adams 2-9<\/p>\n<p>Trent Rockets 92-2 (54 balls): Dunkley 41 (23), Mooney 31* (21)<\/p>\n<p>Sunrisers Leeds were bowled out for just 91 as Trent Rockets cruised to an emphatic eight-wicket win in the women&#039;s Hundred final at Lord&#039;s.<\/p>\n<p>In a disappointingly one-sided contest, Rockets reached their modest target with 46 balls to spare to secure their first women&#039;s title.<\/p>\n<p>England&#039;s Sophia Dunkley smashed 41 off 23 balls as she continued her excellent form and Australian Beth Mooney struck 31 not out off 21.<\/p>\n<p>Sunrisers, who comfortably beat Southern Brave in Friday&#039;s Eliminator, slumped to 26-3 at the end of the powerplay and failed to recover.<\/p>\n<p>They unsurprisingly struggled without significant contributions from their Australian superstars &#8211; Phoebe Litchfield was caught attempting a ramp off Charley Phillips for 10 and Annabel Sutherland was stumped off Georgia Adams for 25.<\/p>\n<p>Dani Gibson, Sunrisers&#039; captain and most expensive player at the women&#039;s auction earlier this year, offered some resistance until her departure for 22 off 16 ended any hope of a fightback.<\/p>\n<p>The wickets were shared in a fine all-round bowling effort by the Rockets as Adams finished with miserly figures of 2-9 and Phillips, the 23-year-old domestic seamer, impressed with 2-12.<\/p>\n<p>Rockets will look to become the first team to win both men&#039;s and women&#039;s competitions in the same year when Sam Billings&#039; side take on Manchester Super Giants at 18:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p>Soaring heat, falling crowds &#8211; The Hundred&#039;s peculiar summer<\/p>\n<p>What has been the impact of new owners on The Hundred?<\/p>\n<p>Who would win combined men&#039;s and women&#039;s trophy in other sports?<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cdj00mw7l20o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trent Rockets could become the first team to win both men&#039;s and women&#039;s trophies in the same edition The Hundred women&#039;s competition: Final, Lord&#039;s Sunrisers Leeds 91 (91 balls): Sutherland 25 (23); Adams 2-9 Trent Rockets 92-2 (54 balls): Dunkley 41 (23), Mooney 31* (21) Sunrisers Leeds were bowled out for just 91 as Trent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[69,29,33],"class_list":["post-37837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commodities","category-technology","tag-impact-eth","tag-signal-avoid","tag-stage-stage-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}