Trent Rockets need one more win to skip the eliminator, in both Hundred competitions
Rockets host Southern Brave at Trent Bridge on 10 August with top spot and a direct place in the Lord’s final at stake in the men’s and women’s Hundred. Women’s start 7.30pm IST, men’s 11pm IST.
Aug 10, 2026
Trent Rockets have already qualified for the knockouts in both the men’s and women’s Hundred. What they do not have yet, in either competition, is the top spot that skips the eliminator and goes straight to Lord’s. Southern Brave arrive at Trent Bridge on 10 August standing in the way of both.
What the men’s game decides
Sam Billings’ side have won six of seven and sit on 24 points, four clear of Sunrisers Leeds. Finish first and they play the final at Lord’s on 16 August without another game in between. Finish second or third and they go to the Kia Oval on 14 August for the eliminator, which is a hard way to spend a week when you have led the table for most of the tournament.
The maths is not complicated. Win, and the Rockets are done worrying. Lose, and Sunrisers Leeds can draw level on 24 points by beating Manchester Super Giants at Old Trafford on 11 August, with net run rate deciding it. Sunrisers currently hold the better net run rate of the two, so this is not a comfortable evening to be caught.
Brave have nothing to play for. Chris Jordan’s side have two wins from seven and were mathematically out before this game came around, which for a squad containing Jofra Archer, Adil Rashid, Marcus Stoinis, David Miller and Tristan Stubbs is a poor return by any reading. Teams in that position tend to bat with the handbrake off, and Rockets bowlers Matt Henry, Mohammad Amir and Mitchell Santner will not treat this as a stroll.
The women’s game is the tighter one
The women’s match starts first. Ash Gardner’s Rockets lead on 24 points, Sophie Molineux’s Brave sit second on 20, and both are already through. A Brave win pulls them level on points and throws the direct final place onto net run rate, where Rockets are a long way ahead at plus 1.601 to Brave’s plus 0.148. Brave would need to win by a distance, not just win.
Behind them, Smriti Mandhana’s Manchester Super Giants sit third on 18 and play Sunrisers Leeds on 11 August for the last knockout place. Mandhana is a large part of why Super Giants are still in it. Her unbeaten 88 at Headingley on 28 July beat Sunrisers, the same side she has to get past again, and it was her career-best score in the competition. She spent her first four Hundred seasons at Southern Brave before this move.
How to watch from India
The women’s match starts at 7.30pm IST, the men’s at 11pm IST, both at Trent Bridge. Beyond Mandhana, the draw for Indian viewers is the franchise-circuit names: Tim David, Finn Allen and Santner in one dressing room, Archer, Rashid and Stubbs in the other, and Nikhil Chaudhary in the Brave squad. Chaudhary was born in Delhi, played 14 games for Punjab between 2017 and 2019, moved to Australia during the pandemic and was called into Australia’s T20I squad in June.
The group stage closes on 12 August with Welsh Fire against London Spirit and Birmingham Phoenix against MI London. Then the eliminator at the Kia Oval on 14 August, and Finals Day at Lord’s on 16 August. Rockets have spent the whole tournament looking like the team to beat. One more win and they get to sit and watch everyone else fight for the right to face them.