Craig Overton’s six-ball 20 beats his twin as Trent Rockets chase down 160
Craig Overton hit 20 off six balls, taking the winning runs off his twin brother Jamie, as Trent Rockets chased down the highest total Trent Bridge has seen in the Hundred.
Jul 27, 2026
Twenty-five were needed off the last 10 balls at Trent Bridge on Sunday, and Trent Rockets sent out a number eight who had already taken two wickets. Craig Overton hit his first ball for six, did the same with his fourth, and then took a couple of twos to finish the job with two balls to spare. The bowler he did most of it to was his twin brother.
The four-wicket win got the Rockets past 159 for 9, the highest chase Trent Bridge has seen in the Hundred, and left London Spirit without a point from their first two games.
Duckett’s 75 takes him third on the all-time list
Ben Duckett’s 47-ball 75 was the innings that made the chase possible, and it came with a milestone attached. He moved third on the Hundred’s all-time run-scoring list, going past Liam Livingstone, who had himself overtaken Will Jacks earlier the same evening.
Duckett reached fifty off 31 balls and hit 12 fours and two sixes in all. After David Willey had Finn Allen caught behind for a five-ball duck, Duckett and Tom Banton put on 72 in 41 balls to haul the Rockets out of a powerplay worth 29 for 1. Andrew Tye broke that up, having Banton caught at point for 22, and then had Duckett caught by James Coles with the total on 108.
The chase stalled badly from there. Jamie Overton removed Tim David for 9. Sam Billings got it moving again, taking two sixes off Adam Zampa with a reverse sweep and then a conventional one, before he picked out Dewald Brevis on the point boundary off Adam Milne. Milne had Lewis Gregory for 1 soon after, and at 135 for 6 off 90 balls the Rockets were still 25 short.
The Overton with the payback
Craig and Jamie Overton were born three minutes apart in April 1994 and have spent a decade being measured against each other. Sunday handed them a straight contest, and Craig had the better of every part of it.
He had already accounted for both Spirit openers in a spell of 2 for 40, having Lhuan-dre Pretorius caught behind by Billings for 24 and then getting Jonny Bairstow caught and bowled for a two-ball nought. Then came 20 not out from six balls, with the second of his sixes and the winning runs both taken off Jamie, who finished with 1 for 30.
“Jamie got me out last year so I had to get some payback,” Craig said afterwards. “I was just trying to get it into the air with the wind.”
Spirit come up short at the death
Everyone in Spirit’s top five made runs except Bairstow. Pretorius hit a quick 24, James Rew struck five fours in a 15-ball 26, and Livingstone and Brevis added 53 for the fourth wicket, reaching their fifty stand in 32 balls. Brevis was the best of them with 39 from 24 balls, four of which went for six.
At 127 for 4 with 22 balls left, Spirit had a platform for something near 180. They lost five wickets for 32 instead. Calvin Harrison took 2 for 25 from his 20 balls, Mitchell Santner conceded 21 from 15, and Lewis Gregory was the most economical of the lot at 1 for 17. Matt Henry had the roughest time of the Rockets bowlers, giving up 29 from his 10 balls, having been hit for 48 from 15 by Birmingham Phoenix on Friday.
Where it leaves both sides
The Rockets are level at a win each after that Phoenix defeat, a 10-run loss on 24 July, and they sit fourth on four points with a net run rate of -0.133. Spirit are seventh and still on nought, having also lost to Manchester Super Giants by seven runs on 23 July. Both play again on 29 July, the Rockets against Welsh Fire and Spirit against MI London.