Summary

  • Spirit win with 38 balls to spare to boost top-three chances - report

  • Chathli hammers 26-ball half-century

  • Invincibles struggle to 108-8

  • Kapp top-scores with 32

  • Dean & Gray take two wickets each

Live Reporting

by Matthew Henry, Sam Drury & George Booth

  1. Sophie Luff
    Somerset women's captain on BBC 5 Sports Extra

    It is crazy to think with 50 balls remaining that London Spirit only need 16.

  2. Spirit 93-0

    Need 16 runs to win

    That record below is in big danger here as four more is taken to fine leg.

    It's all a bit scruffy from Oval Invincibles, although Alice Capsey does well at the end of the set to deny Kira Chathli another boundary.

  3. How's stat?!

    Soham Sarkhel
    CricViz analyst

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    44 balls is the biggest margin in terms of balls remaining in a winning chase in the Women's Hundred. Set by Southern Brave against Trent Rockets back in 2022, chasing 89.

  4. Sophie Luff
    Somerset women's captain on BBC 5 Sports Extra

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    The intent in the last couple of sets has been brilliant from the Australian, Georgia Redmayne.

    Redmayne is playing a beautiful innings here.

  5. Spirit 85-0

    Need 24 more runs to win

    Georgia Redmayne seems intent on catching up Kira Chathli - and ending this match in a flash - as she adds two more boundaries through the off side.

    Issy Wong has just revealed on Sky that her dad is a bit of a net run-rate wizard. If he could pop in to speak to us too that would be helpful.

  6. Spirit 73-0

    Target 109

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    Remember the quicker Spirit win here, the bigger win Manchester Originals will need tomorrow to overhaul them.

    It is possible they overtake Northern Superchargers run-rate too but that's a big ask.

  7. Sophie Luff
    Somerset women's captain on BBC 5 Sports Extra

    It's not a bad time to get a partnership and beat the records in a must-win game.

    Oval Invincibles look so flat out there. They feel like the game has gone already.

    I know there has been some misfields, but it looks a bit defeatist out there, and they're playing in front of a home crowd as well.

  8. How's stat?!

    Soham Sarkhel
    CricViz analyst

    Kira Chathli's 35 runs off 16 balls is the joint-highest score by any batter inside the powerplay this season (alongside Bryony Smith's identical score against the London Spirit). Just two short of the overall record set by Shafali Verma in 2021 and matched by Tammy Beaumont in 2023.

  9. Spirit 66-0

    RedmaynePA Media

    London Spirit came into this match on the back of two defeats but you wouldn't know it. They are looking like the dominant XI that began the tournament with the bowling and catching earlier, plus this aggressive batting.

    Georgia Redmayne times the latest boundary perfectly.

  10. Sophie Luff
    Somerset women's captain on BBC 5 Sports Extra

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    Kira Chathli is well into her work already. She is not going to miss out on a full toss first ball from Sophia Smale.

  11. Spirit 60-0

    Full toss by Sophia Smale...

    Hammered for four by Kira Chathli. Manchester Originals must be getting twitchy.

  12. How's stat?!

    Soham Sarkhel
    CricViz analyst

    This is now the highest opening partnership for London Spirit this season, going past the 34 they managed against Welsh Fire. 47-0 is also their second-highest powerplay score in any season of The Hundred and their highest this season. This is also the most Oval Invincibles have conceded in a powerplay in their history.

  13. Spirit 56-0

    Chathli 36, Redmayne 14

    Georgia Redmayne joins the boundary-hitting party by pulling a long hop from fellow Aussie Amanda-Jade Wellington to square leg. Wellington follows with two wides in what is turning into a pretty ugly end to the campaign for Invincibles.

  14. How's stat?!

    Soham Sarkhel
    CricViz analyst

    The Oval Invincibles have always been a force to be reckoned with when they have the new ball in their hands. This year, though, they have taken just five wickets; their powerplay average of 55.8 is the worst of all teams this year, and the third-worst by any team in any season of the Hundred.

  15. Chris Green
    Welsh Fire all-rounder on BBC 5 Sports Extra

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    Some really good batting from this Spirit pair.

    Kira Chathli has been the enforcer, a bit of luck going her way, but the way she has timed the ball is really impressive.

  16. Spirit 47-0

    Chathli 35, Redmayne 10

    Kira Chathli told me doing rock climbing and adventure sports as a kid helps with her aggressive, fearless mindset. On this occasion she's slightly fortuitous as an under edge to a cut beats leg stump and the wicketkeeper but it's still four more to her name.

  17. Chris Green
    Welsh Fire all-rounder on BBC 5 Sports Extra

    Strategically, these are the five balls that London Spirit can target - the last five balls of the powerplay.

    Oval Invincibles are under pressure to try something new.

  18. 6 runs

    Spirit 38-0

    Target 109

    Pulled all of the way for six and then swung behind for four. Kira Chathli has got Oval Invincibles off to an absolute flier!

    Those five balls from Marizanne Kapp cost 14.

  19. Chris Green
    Welsh Fire all-rounder on BBC 5 Sports Extra

    A big smile on Kira Chathli's face.

    Fortune favours the brave. She was aiming in the extra cover region, but it was sliced slightly.

    Chathli is on fire.

  20. Spirit 28-0

    Timed again by Kira Chathli! Four over backward point.