Chloe Brewer
Central Sparks batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

"From now [Stars] have to look to build a big partnership to form a platform."

Double wicket-taker Kate Coppack back on.

Stars skipper Bryony Smith takes two from the opening ball but then a scare as she drives and edges, but it drops just short of wicketkeeper Amara Carr.

A single gets the Stars skipper to the non-strikers.

Coppack then beats the outside edge of Alice Davidson-Richards next up.

Wonderful start.

Bryony Smith turns Mady Villiers away for a single to bring Alice Davidson-Richards into the action and she gets off the mark fourth ball with a single.

Relative calm from the third over with just three runs from it.

ADR is the competition's leading run-scorer this season and a lot of the Stars hopes will rest on her shoulders.

Good news for the south east side is there is PLENTY of time to rebuild.

Nikki Chaudhuri
Surrey bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

"Paige Scholfield has gone across the line and the ball has jagged back. This is what a final is all about."

Chloe Brewer
Central Sparks batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

"That is a seriously good start. Sunrisers will be absolutely buzzing with that. The second over and they have already made a dent in the Stars batting order."

Not a great start from Mady Villiers.

She drags down a half-tracker first ball and Bryony Smith pulls it for a powerful four to the deep square leg boundary.

Villiers drags it back well with two singles to complete the over, with Alexa Stonehouse also getting off the mark.

Chloe Brewer
Central Sparks batter on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

"It is a big day for women's cricket. The previous five years have led to this final day. It is the end of an era."

So who will become the last winners of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy Final?

We're about to find out.

Mady Villiers is to open the bowling for Sunrisers with Stars skipper Bryony Smith to face first ball.

Let's go

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She might only be 20 years old, but Grace Scrivens has already been touted as a future England captain.

Scrivens is a triple threat: she is the third top run scorer in this year’s RHFT as a rare left-hander in, she is a more than useful off spinner and is an exceptional leader.

Her 56 when opening against Diamonds in the semi-final set the tone of the chase.

Scrivens and Cordelia Griffith – who scored 55 to beat Southern Vipers to get out the group stage and then 68 in the semi – will be crucial to Sunrisers’ ability to a successful batting performance.

Sunrisers skipper Grace Scrivens has won the toss and fancies a chase so has opted to bowl first.

And why not? They were impressive run chasers in their semi-final over Northern Diamonds.

For Sunrisers, Mady Villiers and Amu Surenkumar return, with Sophie Munro ruled out through injury.

Stars welcome back their leading wicket-taker Ryana MacDonald-Gay and captain Bryony Smith from international duty.

Sunrisers: Scrivens (c), Gardner, Griffith, Grewcock, MacLeod, Villiers, Miller, Gray, Carr, Surenkumar, Coppack.

Stars: Smith (c), Stonehouse, Scholfield, Davidson-Richards, Chathli, Cranstone, Franklin, MacDonald-Gay, Moore, Gregory, Corteen-Coleman.

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Alice Davidson-Richards is on quite the hot streak.

She booked a home semi-final for Stars with a 70 against Central Sparks and 79 at Diamonds, before stunning Southern Vipers with an almighty 90 not out in the semi-final.

Those, and three other fifties in the tournament, see her top the competition’s run-scoring list with 557 runs.

Davidson-Richards is an absolute powerhouse in the middle order, and can easily adjust her tempo to the situation.

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From next season, the women's domestic game is changing.

Eight counties will host professional women's teams, replacing the eight regional clubs that currently play in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and the 20-over Charlotte Edwards Cup.

The two domestic competitions will also end, with the counties instead playing in the T20 Blast and One-Day Cup in a move to align the revamped set-up with the men's game.

The plans will see a three-tiered domestic competition created, with Durham, Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire (whose team will continue to be known as The Blaze), Somerset, Surrey and Warwickshire the eight counties awarded Tier One status for 2025.

Glamorgan and Yorkshire will join them in 2027 as part of an expansion, with two further teams added in 2029.

The Sunrisers were the outsiders going into the knockout stages having finished fourth after a mixed group-stage record.

But they stunned table-topping Northern Diamonds with a comprehensive seven-wicket win and with a whopping 38 balls to spare.

Remarkably, Sunrisers have won more games in the trophy this season - eight - than in the last four campaigns combined.

“It’s quite mad when you think about it, but the girls have come together brilliantly,” skipper Grace Scrivens told BBC Sport.

“From the place we’ve been in to how we could finish - that would be a really great story.”

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South East Stars were runners-up in the group stage and then vanquished serial winners Southern Vipers in the semi-final.

They have the form batter in Alice Davidson-Richards and dangerous wicket-taker Ryana MacDonald-Gay to lead their charge.

The Stars are also in line to follow Vipers to win all three professional domestic women's competitions - having won the KSL in 2017 and, the Charlotte Edwards Cup in 2021.

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Welcome to the end of an era in women's cricket.

Today either South East Stars or Sunrisers will become eternal Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy champions - with regions becoming counties next year.

Neither have been here before - Stars lost in the last two semi-finals, while Sunrisers didn't win a single match in their first three years.

Play starts at 10:30 BST.