However, Tom Benton’s team had to face defeat in the match.
The Hundred 2024: The 24th match of The Hundred was played on Sunday, 10th August between Southern Brave and Trent Rockets at Rose Bowl ground in Southampton. Let us tell you that in this match, Trent Rockets wicketkeeper Tom Banton took a great catch, the video of which is becoming increasingly viral on social media.
It is worth noting that Benton took this catch on the 44th ball of Southern Brave’s innings, when the batsman on strike Leus du Plooy wanted to play a soft shot towards leg south on this ball bowled by John Turner.
The ball took a slight edge of the bat and went into the air over leg side, but during this time wicketkeeper Tom Benton, who was alert behind the wicket, took a brilliant catch by diving to his right. Due to this catch taken by Benton, Plooy could score only 5 runs.
Watch the video of this amazing catch taken by Tom Benton
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What a take from Tom Banton!#TheHundred , #RoadToTheEliminator pic.twitter.com/x5v0YGltPy
â The Hundred (@thehundred) August 10, 2024
Southern Brave won the match by 2 wickets due to Kieron Pollard’s 5 sixes
On the other hand, if we tell you about the match in detail, then Trent Rockets, batting first, scored 126 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 100 balls. Tom Benton played the best innings of 30 runs for the team, no other player could score more runs. Talking about the bowling of Southern Brave, Chris Jordan got 3 wickets, Danny Briggs got 2, Jofra Archer got 2 and Akeel Hussain got 1 wicket.
After this, when Southern Brave came out to chase the target of 127 runs given by Trent Rockets, their innings faltered. After openers Alex Davies and James Vince were dismissed for 28 runs each, the middle order collapsed.
But after this, Kieron Pollard put his team ahead in the match by hitting sixes on 5 consecutive balls against number 1 T20 bowler Rashid Khan. Pollard played a brilliant innings of 45 runs with the help of 2 fours and 5 sixes in 23 balls, due to which Brave won the match by 2 wickets.