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Trent Rockets won the Women’s Hundred 2026 title at Lord’s, demolishing defending champions Sunrisers Leeds for 91 before Sophia Dunkley (41 off 23) and Beth Mooney (31*) completed an eight-wicket win with 46 balls to spare. Georgia Adams took 2-9 and was named Player of the Match as all four Rockets bowlers claimed two wickets apiece.
Lord’s, London: For a team that had spent the entirety of the Women’s Hundred 2026 season looking like champions-in-waiting, Trent Rockets’ coronation at Lord’s was every bit as emphatic as the billing demanded. Finishing top of the group stage with eight wins from nine, they entered the final as heavy favourites. They left as champions — and not by a narrow margin, not after a nerve-shredding finish, but with a performance so complete it barely allowed Sunrisers Leeds a single meaningful foothold across the entire afternoon.
Defending champions Sunrisers had arrived at Lord’s on the back of a clinical Eliminator win over Manchester Super Giants on Friday and carried the belief of a side that had won this title before. By the time Georgia Adams had finished her spell, that belief had been reduced to rubble.
A Powerplay That Settled the Trophy
Sunrisers Leeds’ innings was effectively over inside the first 19 balls. Kim Garth struck twice in as many legal deliveries to open the tournament’s grandest occasion, and when Adams took the ball the collapse accelerated beyond all recovery.
The off-spinning all-rounder was everywhere. She took Phoebe Litchfield (10) with a sharp catch at short fine leg as the opener attempted a ramp off her own bowling, then produced the moment of the innings — a stumping off debutant-style footwork, sending Annabel Sutherland back to the pavilion for 25 off 23 balls, the only Sunrisers batter to make a meaningful contribution in the top half. Adams then ran out Jess Jonassen from cover with an arrow throw to finish with 2-9 from her allocation — figures that told the story of a spell that changed the final before most of the crowd had settled.
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Charley Phillips took 2-12, Samantha Bates claimed 2-17, and Kim Garth’s 2-18 meant all four frontline Rockets bowlers finished with multiple wickets. Deepti Sharma managed 12 before being bowled, and captain Dani Gibson’s 22 off 16 was the last meaningful resistance before Sunrisers were dismissed for 91 — their lowest total in six seasons of the Hundred, consuming all 91 balls allocated to leave Rockets chasing just 92.
Dunkley Takes the Game Away in Nine Minutes
The chase needed 54 of Rockets’ allocated 100 balls, and the first 40 deliveries removed any lingering suspense. Sophia Dunkley and Beth Mooney walked to the crease and immediately took the attack to a Sunrisers bowling unit that had nothing left to give — Rockets racing to 45 inside the powerplay and the opening stand reaching 69 from 61 balls.
Dunkley was the aggressor, cutting and driving with the clean-ball-striking that had made her the tournament’s most feared top-order batter across the group stage. She reached 41 off 23 balls — four fours and two sixes — before spooning Dani Gibson to short cover with just 23 runs still needed, nine runs short of a fifty that she thoroughly deserved.
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Nat Sciver-Brunt came to the crease next and was trapped leg before by Annabel Sutherland — Rockets reviewing, the decision returned as Umpire’s Call — for just 4 off 2. It was the afternoon’s only moment of tension, and tension is perhaps too strong a word. Mooney, unruffled throughout, finished 31 not out from 21 balls before captain Ash Gardner struck the winning boundary through the off-side to spark scenes of celebration among the yellow-clad faithful in the Lord’s stands.
The Anatomy of a Champions’ Season
Player of the Match Georgia Adams embodied everything that made this Rockets side champions. The off-spinning all-rounder contributed not just wickets but energy, intensity, and match-defining moments in the field — the kind of presence that wins finals in formats where margins matter.
Sophia Dunkley’s tournament will go down as one of the great Women’s Hundred batting campaigns, her 260 runs across the season placing her among the leading run-scorers in the competition’s history, including three fifties. Samantha Bates’ 13 wickets at a tournament average of 14.46 gave Rockets a bowling dimension capable of dismantling any top order on any surface.
Player of the Series went to Sunrisers’ Annabel Sutherland — 315 runs and 11 wickets across the tournament — a recognition of individual brilliance that arrived with the bittersweet backdrop of a final-day capitulation that her own excellence could not prevent.
Yellow Army Crowned
Sunrisers Leeds will spend the winter examining a batting order that posted 91 in the biggest match of their season. For Trent Rockets, this is the culmination of a season built on remarkable collective depth — four bowlers taking two wickets apiece in the final, an opening partnership dismantling the target in the first quarter of the chase.
The men’s team, captained by Sam Billings, faced Manchester Super Giants in the second final of the evening at the same venue — setting up the possibility of Trent Rockets becoming the first franchise to complete the men’s and women’s Hundred double in the same year.
Result: Trent Rockets won by 8 wickets (46 balls remaining) Scores: Sunrisers Leeds 91 all out (91 balls); Trent Rockets 92-2 (54 balls) Venue: Lord’s, London — August 16, 2026 Sunrisers Leeds: A Sutherland 25 (23), DR Gibson 22 (16); GA Adams 2-9, C Phillips 2-12, S Bates 2-17, K Garth 2-18 Trent Rockets: S Dunkley 41 (23), B Mooney 31* (21), N Sciver-Brunt 4 (2), A Gardner 9* (8); DR Gibson 1-9, A Sutherland 1-16 Player of the Match: Georgia Adams (Trent Rockets) — 2-9, 1 catch, 1 run-out Player of the Series: Annabel Sutherland (Sunrisers Leeds) — 315 runs, 11 wickets
