Lord’s hosted cricket’s most electric day of the domestic calendar. The Hundred 2026 Finals gave 2 first-time champions. Both titles decided by extraordinary individual performances. One was Tim Seifert hitting seven sixes into the Lord’s night sky. The other was Sophia Dunkley and Beth Mooney making a chase look embarrassingly easy. August 16, 2026 belongs entirely to cricket history.
Women’s Final: Trent Rockets 92 for 2 Beat Sunrisers Leeds 91
The Result That Nobody Expected to Be This One-Sided
Sunrisers Leeds were defending champions. They had beaten Southern Brave in a five-wicket Eliminator win to reach the final. They arrived at Lord’s with confidence. Then they batted and posted only 91.
Sunrisers Leeds were blown away for 91 before Dunkley and Mooney led a romp to an eight-wicket victory. Trent Rockets chased 92 in just 54 balls. They won with 46 balls remaining. It was one of the most dominant women’s Hundred final performances in the competition’s history.
How Adams Set the Platform
Adams excelled as Rockets surged to the maiden Women’s Hundred title. Her bowling and contribution in the field disrupted Sunrisers’ top order early and removed the aggressive intent that Phoebe Litchfield and Hayley Matthews had brought throughout the competition.
Deepti Sharma bowled tidily but had no platform to build on. Sunrisers’ batting never found any rhythm. Their 91 all out was well below what the surface and the occasion demanded. Once the total was set, the match was over.
Dunkley and Mooney Complete the Job
Sophia Dunkley had been the tournament’s leading run-scorer throughout the group stage. She brought that form into the final at exactly the right moment. Dunkley and Beth Mooney batted as if 92 was a formality. They scored at a rate that made the Sunrisers bowling attack look powerless.
Ashleigh Gardner, skipper of the Trent Rockets, collected the trophy and joined her squad on the podium to celebrate. Joyous scenes all around for the Yellow Army as they lifted their maiden Women’s Hundred title. It was Trent Rockets’ first Women’s Hundred title in six editions of the competition.
Men’s Final: Manchester Super Giants Beat Trent Rockets
The Result That Completed a Remarkable Five-Game Run
Tim Seifert blasted Manchester Super Giants to the men’s Hundred title at Lord’s, cracking seven sixes in his 38-ball 72 to chase down 159 with two balls to spare. It was the innings of the final. It was the innings of the competition.
Manchester Super Giants were almost eliminated three weeks ago. They lost three consecutive group matches. Then something changed. Jos Buttler took over the captaincy after Aiden Markram flew home for personal reasons. The Super Giants won five matches in a row from that moment. Their final win was the best of all five.
Trent Rockets Post 158
Trent Rockets set 159 with Ben Duckett providing the innings with its best start. The Rockets’ middle and lower order contributed enough to make the total competitive but not dominant. On a Lord’s pitch that offered bowlers some assistance in the first 25 balls, 158 felt like it should have been more.
Craig Overton took early wickets for the Rockets in the Super Giants’ chase. They were in danger briefly. Then Seifert arrived at the crease and the match changed completely.
Seifert’s Lord’s Masterclass
Seifert had never played at Lord’s a month ago but struck 67 off 45 on Super Giants debut in their opening game against London Spirit, and was their match-winner once again nearly a month later. He came into this final with four consecutive half-centuries in the knockout stages. He added a 72 in the final.
Seven sixes. Thirty-eight balls. He raced out of the blocks and looked fired up, exchanging words with Mohammad Amir after taking his first over for 14 runs. He nearly fell on 33 to an extraordinary piece of fielding before being reprieved on review. He did not waste the life. He went on to win the match with two balls to spare.
History for the Super Giants Franchise
The result marked the first time that either Manchester team, men’s or women’s, had won a Hundred trophy. It ended the Super Giants franchises’ long wait for silverware, which had spanned seven IPL seasons and four SA20s.
That context makes this title even more significant. The ownership group behind Manchester Super Giants had won everywhere else. Lord’s was the final gap in their trophy cabinet.
Paul Walter’s inclusion at the top of the order after Markram’s departure had transformed the team’s season. His quickfire 22 off 14 balls took his record for the season to 247 runs in five innings. He set the platform in the final. Seifert finished it.
The Day That Produced Two First-Time Champions
Something remarkable happened at Lord’s on August 16. Both trophies went to first-time winners. Trent Rockets Women won their maiden title. Manchester Super Giants Men won their maiden title. Neither franchise had ever stood on this podium before.
In six editions of The Hundred, that has only happened once before where both finals produced maiden champions on the same day. The coincidence of both firsts happening simultaneously gives this Finals Day a permanent place in the competition’s short but growing history.
The broader significance of The Hundred’s role in reshaping franchise cricket in England is explored in our piece on the impact of franchise leagues on cricket. Both maiden champion stories from Lord’s on August 16 add directly to that narrative of how The Hundred continues to create new chapters in English cricket every season.
Trent Rockets’ Remarkable Double Near-Miss
Trent Rockets came within one final of achieving The Hundred’s first-ever men’s and women’s double. They won the women’s title comprehensively. They lost the men’s final to Seifert’s extraordinary knock. The margin was two balls. The smallest possible gap between history and heartbreak.
Had Trent Rockets won both, they would have become the only franchise in six editions to win the men’s and women’s title in the same year. That record remains unbroken. But their women’s title and their men’s runners-up finish in the same evening at Lord’s is still an outstanding season for any franchise in the competition’s history.
The Broader Picture: Why This Edition Matters
The 2026 Hundred was the first edition played under private ownership from IPL groups. Three teams were rebranded. A live auction replaced the draft. The overseas player limit was increased to four per XI. The competition produced two first-time champions, record crowds, and a women’s final where the defending champions were beaten by 46 balls to spare.
The quality of cricket across both competitions this season, and the growing global reach of The Hundred as a competition, cements its position among the world’s most significant franchise tournaments. The full picture of where The Hundred sits in the global franchise landscape is explored in our piece on the top 5 cricket leagues in the world.
Conclusion
Two finals. Two first-time champions. Tim Seifert hit seven sixes to win the men’s trophy for Manchester Super Giants. Sophia Dunkley and Beth Mooney chased 92 in 54 balls to win the women’s trophy for Trent Rockets. Lord’s on August 16 was everything Finals Day should be. New names on the trophy. History made in both competitions on the same evening. Cricket at its most entertaining and most meaningful simultaneously. The Hundred 2026 is over. Both trophies found new homes. Neither will be forgotten quickly.
