A STAGGERING display of sustained hitting from Birmingham Phoenix’s brilliant top four propelled them to a statement win, with a raucous home crowd treated to a slugfest that yielded 29 sixes across both innings as Trent Rockets, chasing 215 to win, briefly threatened to make history in The Hundred.
After the powerplay, the Rockets’ openers Ben Duckett and Finn Allen had smashed 54 unbroken runs and were up with the rate. The Phoenix needed their Pakistan overseas star Usman Tariq, with his canny round-arm off-breaks, to undo the partnership, inducing a skewed lofted dri...
