Rockets vs Phoenix, 14th Match at Birmingham, Men's 100, Aug 01 2021 - Ball by Ball Commentary

and Phoenix have completed a dominant, dominant win with a single to long-on. Win with 26 balls remaining. Whew. Unending stream of balls slammed into and over boundaries this innings.

shorter outside off, slammed hard, but can't beat cover

length ball angling into him, turned to backward square leg

short outside off, slapped through cover. There's protection in the deep

he's done it again! This time he gets a top edge but it's hit hard enough that it sails over slip and goes a bit finer than the last ball - same result though. Boundary

shorter and Benjamin goes inventive. Reverse sweeps it to the third man boundary. There's a slip there but he swept wide of the man

googly first up, he doesn't read it, stretching forward to defend and rapped on the pads. Loud appeal by Rashid but that was going down

castles him. Rashid showing how effective he can be, no matter the match situation. This was bowled quick, and it skids off from a length on off to go through the gate and light up the stumps.

goes to pull, gets it off the under-edge towards midwicket

van der Gugten tips it over the boundary. Technically it's a drop but that was hit so mightily hard, I don't know how you catch that cleanly. Fuller, he goes down on one knee and absolutely slams it hard and flat. Van der Gugten had to jump a bit at deep midwicket, got a bit of hands on it, couldn't hold on

tapped down softly for a quick single

too short again and cracked again, but this time it's straight to the fielder

just beats the man at deep midwicket. That's some power in the shot. Doesn't go very high, isn't that well timed. Very short ball askign to be hit and Livingstone obliges. van der Gugten stretches his hand out but can't get to the ball

too short to start with, and he's pulled around the corner to long leg

skips down the track, doesn't manage to get bat on the ball, it lobs up off pad near him

bang goes Livingstone. Too short, too wide outside off, and he rocks back to slap this through cover

tight line on off, punched well through cover

slightly short, tapped gently through backward square leg

good length on off, opens the face to punch this through backward point

googly castles him. He went down to reverse sweep, but this was again bowled quicker and it zipped through to shatter stumps