141/6 (20.0)
CR : 7.05
162/5 (20.0)
CR : 8.10
London Spirit won by 21 runs 🏆
Player of the Match
Jamie Smith
52(34)
19.4
2
L Dawson to M Stoinis
Full length delivery, on the stumps, slogs it to cow corner for a couple.
19.5
1
L Dawson to M Stoinis
Single to end the match! London Spirit break Trent's streak and take home the W by 21 runs! Full-length delivery, following Stoinis' moving down leg, closes the bat face for a flick, gets a leading edge through cover-point for a run.
Over 20
Trent Rockets 141/6
Akeal Hosein1(1)
Marcus Stoinis35(22)
Liam Dawson1-30(20 b)
LS won by 21 runs
Earlier in the match, the Trent Rockets suffered dearly for their poor catching with a number of London Spirit batters benefiting. The Spirit made a change to their opening combination as Jamie Smith opened and the move worked as he registered a fifty. Kane Williamson with 45 and Ashton Turner with 30 were also superb as they helped the Spirit post a target upwards of 150. Eventually, Ollie Pope's 17-run cameo helped the Spirit to post 162/5 on the board.
01:47 AM IST, 09:17
PM Local Time: A pretty one-sided game in the end as the Trent Rockets’
chase went nowhere. The hosts managed to restrict the Rockets to just 141/6 off
their 100 balls. Daniel Worrall and Richard Gleeson with two wickets apiece while
Liam Dawson and Jamie Overton also bowled well to hand-over the first defeat of
the season to the Rockets.
Chasing 163 for victory, Tom Banton and Joe Root got off to
a pretty decent start before they started to slow down. The Rockets had got to
38/0 in the Powerplay but managed only 69/0 at the end of the 10th set.
Soon, Tom Banton played on a length delivery from Jamie Overton in a strange
way while Daniel Worrall got David Willey and Rehan Ahmed in the same set. Liam
Dawson also chipped in with the wicket of Joe Root as the Rockets slipped to
90/4.
Things continued to get worse as Jamie Overton bowled a
nasty short delivery which struck Tom Alsop’s nose as the latter suffered a cut
and had to walk off the field. The innings went nowhere from there as Kane
Williamson rotated his bowlers superbly. Richard Gleeson came back into the
attack and bowled Max Holden with a slower delivery to get his first scalp in
the 17th set. Gleeson also bowled a fine slower bounce to get rid of
Adam Hose in his next set.
At one end, Marcus Stoinis played a strange knock as he
played with restrain until the game was done as he smashed a couple of sixes
off Liam Dawson’s bowling in the final set. In the end, the Spirit reigned
supreme by 21 runs in front of the home crowd.
Player of the Match: Jamie Smith
Jamie Smith (Player of the Match): "It's been difficult at home, and its great to come out here and perform in front of the home crowd. Trent Rockets did really well, but we took the pace off and brought in the dimensions of the ground, it was important to take wickets and push the rate upwards.
We have a quality team and we need to keep building relationships. With Warner and Williamson, we have good experience in our side too."
We have a quality team and we need to keep building relationships. With Warner and Williamson, we have good experience in our side too."
So that is it from myself, Karthik Raj and my co-commentators, Anirudh Modi and AkshayaKrishna as we wrap up the coverage of this contest. A note of thanks to our scorer, Paras Yadav as well. Do stay tuned and join us for the first match of the 2025 CPL season in a few hours' time.