The Hundred 2026 outcomes: Birmingham Phoenix submit 214 to beat Trent Rockets

The Hundred males’s competitors, Edgbaston

Birmingham Phoenix 214-4 (100 balls): Clarke 68 (33); Harrison 2-27

Trent Rockets 204-7 (100 balls): Banton 67 (32); Tariq 2-36

Birmingham Phoenix received by 10 runs

Scorecard. Desk

Birmingham Phoenix and Trent Rockets ended this yr’s Hundred run-drought with a high-scoring contest at Edgbaston, which the house facet edged by 10 runs.

Phoenix posted 214-4 – the second-highest whole within the event’s historical past behind Oval Invincibles’ 226-4 final yr – and with Rockets’ reply of 204-7, it was the primary time that 400 runs have been scored in a sport total.

The 29 sixes hit throughout each innings was additionally a Hundred document.

Joe Clarke and Will Smeed each scored fifties in Phoenix’s flying begin because the pair added 104 from simply 49 balls for the primary wicket.

After Clarke fell for 68 from 33 balls and Smeed’s 51 from 28, Rehan Ahmed and Donovan Ferreira ensured the sensible begin was not in useless.

The pair smashed 63 from simply 22 balls for the third wicket, as Ahmed clubbed 5 sixes in his 25-ball 48 whereas Ferreira added a useful cameo off 22 not out from simply 9 deliveries.

In reply, Rockets made a optimistic begin as openers Finn Allen and Ben Duckett added 65 in 29 balls however the chase began to float when the pair fell for 43 and 49 respectively.

Tom Banton saved Rockets’ hopes alive with a 26-ball fifty, however seamer Scott Currie held his nerve on the demise to take away him for 67 with an unlikely 29 wanted off the final seven balls and Phoenix closed out the victory.

On a troublesome evening for bowlers, Rockets spinner Calvin Harrison’s figures of 2-27 had been an outlier.

Phoenix’s innings was the sixth time that 200 has been surpassed within the event and sparked some much-needed life into this yr’s version after a run of comparatively low scores – the earlier highest whole simply 144.

The match additionally alleviated considerations concerning the high quality of the pitch after Phoenix’s girls had been contrastingly bowled out for 64 earlier within the day.