Southern Brave beat Trent Rockets at Trent Bridge, leaving Rockets awaiting final qualification fate
Trent Rockets lost to Southern Brave by six wickets at Trent Bridge in The Hundred men's competition on 10 August 2026, leaving the Rockets to wait to learn whether they will qualify automatically for the final.
Trent Rockets and Southern Brave were captained by Sam Billings and Chris Jordan respectively. The match scorecards recorded Trent Rockets 158-5 (100 balls): Santner 35* (23); Worrall 1-21 and Southern Brave 159-4 (97 balls): Stubbs 52* (28); Harrison 2-32. The Rockets were unable to defend what the report later described as a total of 158-7, while Southern Brave, already eliminated, completed the chase with three balls to spare.
Tristan Stubbs finished unbeaten on 52 from 28 balls, striking four fours and three sixes at a strike rate of 185.71, and his fourth-wicket partnership of 70 with Marcus Stoinis proved decisive. Stoinis made 46 off 25 with four fours and three sixes before he was caught off Ben Sanderson in the penultimate set; with eight required from the final five balls bowled by Lewis Gregory, Stubbs and Nikhil Chaudhary took Brave over the line, Stubbs sealing the win with a six over square leg.
Mitchell Santner top-scored for the Rockets with an unbeaten 35 off 23 balls and put on an unbroken sixth-wicket stand of 66 with Lewis Gregory, who finished 28 not out off 18. The report noted the top order all contributed useful runs and that the bowling returns were shared among five bowlers; Brave skipper Chris Jordan dismissed Finn Allen with a yorker when Allen was on 23.
Seventeen-year-old Manny Lumsden endured a difficult outing, his first set going for 19 runs and he was not returned to bowl. The scoreline and individual figures underpinned a close finish, with Brave reaching 159-4 in 97 balls to claim a six-wicket victory.
The result leaves Nottingham-based Rockets dependent on the outcome at Old Trafford on Tuesday, where Sunrisers Leeds could overtake them for top spot if they beat Manchester Super Giants. Sunrisers currently trail the Rockets by four points; if both sides finish level on 24 points positions will be decided by net run-rate, with Sunrisers at 1.094 and the Rockets at 0.740.
Manchester Super Giants host Sunrisers Leeds at Old Trafford on Tuesday, with the women's match at 15:00 BST and the men's at 18:30. Whoever wins the women's fixture will secure a place in the Eliminator against Southern Brave — a tie or no result would allow the Super Giants to advance — while the Sunrisers will be guaranteed to reach the knockout phase with a victory in the men's match and the Super Giants must win to keep their top-three hopes alive.