
Trent Rockets vs. Southern Brave Tips: Two tips for The Hundred opener

It's the start of The Hundred on Tuesday as both the Men's Hundred and Women's Hundred competition gets under way with Trent Rockets taking on Southern Brave at Trent Bridge.
It's a real treat for cricket fans as the game is on BBC2, so potential new supporters of the game can watch the swashbuckling action with the women's clash taking place before the men's clash.
Our man Steve Chambers takes a look at both matches and picks out his best bet for each game...
Trent Rockets Women vs Southern Brave Women - 3pm start
Runners up in both 2021 and 2022, Southern Brave Women will head to Trent Rockets Women in a sparkling curtain-raiser. It's the home team that have been installed as the 8/11 favourites to win the match, with Southern Brave Women available at 11/10.
There's no doubt that the star name within the Trent Rockets Women line-up is the sparkling English batter Nat Sciver-Brunt, who was sensational throughout the Women's Ashes over the summer and rattled off a huge amount of runs with some sparkling centuries along the way in the final two ODIs.
If the Trent Rockets Women want to get their campaign off to a winning start then she will be integral and the 3/1 on offer with Betfred for her to be top scorer for the home team looks the most solid option from a punting perspective.
Trent Rockets vs Southern Brave - 7pm start
Reigning champions of the 2022 Hundred, Trent Rockets will host 2021 champions Southern Brave in the men's opener, which starts at 7pm and the betting is similar to that of the women's match with the Rockets being installed the 4/5 favourites, while Southern Brave are available at 11/10.
All eyes will be on Alex Hales and Dawid Malan at the top of the batting for the Trent Rockets and that pair have shown down the years to be top-quality performers and will be looking to get the Rockets off to a flyer, but the value in the top Trent Rockets batsman market is Tom Kohler-Cadmore.
One of the inspirational figures for Somerset in their Vitality T20 Blast success this season, Kohler-Cadmore has a sparkling free-flowing style to his game and he can hit quick runs coming in towards the top of the order.
Available at 9/2 with some bookmakers, Kohler-Cadmore can inspire a Trent Rockets win over a Southern Brave side that will be hoping stalwart James Vince can perform impeccably for what should be a cracking opening to a sparkling month of franchise cricket.
