A tournament best three wickets from Ash Gardner guided the Trent Rockets to victory over London Spirit overnight.
Gardner took 3-23 in the Rockets' 31-run victory, her best figures in the tournament to date and a performance earning her Player of the Match honours.
The Muruwari allrounder was the first bowler to strike in the Rockets' defence of 5-158 at Nottingham's Trent Bridge.
She opened her wicket taking account by clean bowling fellow Australian Georgia Redmayne (3 from 9) with a length ball that held its line from around the wicket and cannoned into the left hander's leg stump.
Gardner then struck the very next ball, deceiving the newly-arrived Cordelia Griffith in flight with a full, wide delivery which beat Griffith's outside edge and saw her stumped in sharp fashion by 'keeper Natasha Wraith.
Returning to the attack in the 11th over with figures of 2-9, Gardner picked up her third wicket in Danielle Gibson (13 from 20) plumb leg-before-wicket, the right hander shuffling across her stumps in what was a straightforward decision for umpire Sue Redfern.
After delivering her fourth and final over in the 15th over of the chase, Gardner finished her spell with an important seven dots, the most of any Rockets bowler and economy of 1.15 runs per ball after conceding just two boundaries.
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The Spirit ended their innings at 7-127 with Deepti Sharma top scoring with 30* (23).
The Rockets set up their victory with a strong showing with the bat, opener Grace Scrivens top scoring with 55 (43).
After arriving at the crease with 27 balls remaining in the innings, Gardner contributed a run-a-ball 8 before hauling out to deep square leg from the off-spin of Sharma (2-25).
Post-match, Gardner said it was a "huge" win for the Rockets.
"It was probably the first game we put all three facets of the game together," she said, via AAP.
"The openers did a fantastic job giving us the start that they did, that was the best we've been with the ball and we were pretty clean in the field.
"It was a pretty perfect performance."
The fifth-placed Rockets next fixture is against the winless Southern Brave at Southampton's Utilita Bowl on August 10.
