Davies, bowlers keep Brave hopes alive

Alex Davies' unbeaten 51 upheld by a restrained bowling execution helped Southern Brave keep their competition trusts buzzing with their third success of the time, beating Trent Rockets by six wickets, at the Rose Bowl on Thursday. Put in to bat, Rockets lost Alex Hales early, becoming Paul Stirling's lady wicket in the Hundred. Stirling, who had a great trip with the ball, returning 1 for 10 out of 15 balls, had the Rockets opener slice to the cover defender. Dawid Malan, then again, moved Rockets' assault along from one end. In the wake of pummeling Sonny Baker for limits off progressive balls, he cleared Jake Lintott for a six followed by switch clearing Rehan Ahmed for a limit. Lintott bore the essential attack of Rockets' assault. After a sluggish beginning by the players in the initial 50 balls, Samit Patel pounded the spinner for successive sixes - one penetrated down the ground, the other swiped through the profound mid wicket locale. Lintott wound up surrendering 48 runs from his spell. Notwithstanding, excepting Malan's 41-ball 59, there wasn't a lot of familiarity from Rockets as they were in the long run confined to 138 for 6, with Michael Hogan and James Fuller sacking a support each, and joining to yield just 38 runs in 35 balls. Valiant's beginning to the pursuit wasn't any really venturesome, after Sam Cook and Luke Wood struck early - Stirling getting scattered by Cook's more slow ball and James Vince playing Wood's full conveyance back on to the stumps to decrease the side to 9 for 2 out of 14 balls. However, quinton de Kock and Alex Davies, who resuscitated the pursuit, battled to get the scoring rate. Excepting a six and several limits, the team couldn't score a limit before the previous at last fell on a scratchy 23-ball 24. Davies had it significantly harder to track down limits, holding up till the 30th bundle of his innings. Regardless, in the organization of Ross Whiteley, he skillfully helped the side take the innings forward. The team figured out how to add 71 runs in 38 balls to assist with shutting down on the objective before Whiteley fell holed out at profound mid wicket on 30. With 16 required off the last 11 balls, in an innings where just 8 limits were scored in the past 90 balls, it was as yet a precarious position. In any case, Tim David didn't take excessively lengthy to stop the challenge, pummeling Wood for two sixes and afterward circling back to a whack through the retrogressive square leg locale for a limit to end the run pursue and hand Rockets just their second loss of the time. Brief Scores: Trent Rockets 138/6 in 100 balls (Dawid Malan 59, Samit Patel 21; James Fuller 2-18, Michael Hogan 2-20) lost to Southern Brave 142/4 in 95 balls (Alex Davies 51*, Ross Whiteley 30; Sam Cook 2-25) by 6 wickets