Summary

  • Western Storm beat Southern Vipers by seven wickets to win KSL

  • Ex-England captain Charlotte Edwards retires after Vipers' defeat

  • Southern Vipers post 145-5 after being put into bat

  • Rachel Priest hits 72 off 36 balls to lead Storm run chase

  • Storm beat Surrey Stars by three wickets to reach final

  1. Stars 100-5published at 19.4 overs

    A furious cut from Marsh this time, but it finds the fielder at backward point, and a single brings up Surrey's 100.

  2. Stars 99-5published at 19.3 overs

    Here's Laura Marsh, and she scoops her first delivery from Shrubsole beyond Rachel Priest and away for four! What a bit of timing!

  3. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 19.2 overs

    Smith st Priest b Shrubsole 13 (Stars 95-5)

    Out! Bryony Smith advances, Anya Shrubsole sees her coming and spears in a leg cutter that Smith misses. Rachel Priest takes it well behind the stumps to whip the bails off.

  4. Stars 95-4published at 19.1 overs

    Here is Shrubsole, with Dunkley in her sights, and she smears a single away off the outside edge.

  5. Stars 95-4published at 19 overs

    What a miss that was. It'll be Anya Shrubsole to bowl the final over.

  6. dropped catch

    Smith dropped on 13published at 18.5 overs

    Stars 94-4

    Oh! Bryony Smith came down the track, chipped the ball up towards long on - and an advancing Georgia Hennessy spills it!

  7. Stars 92-4published at 18.4 overs

    Sophia Dunkley's trying hard to accelerate as she gets down on one knee and sweeps Stafanie Taylor, but the ball reaches Heather Knight on the mid-wicket boundary on the bounce. She comes down the pitch in a stuttering sort of move and chips the ball through Taylor's hands for a single.

  8. Postpublished at 15:18 British Summer Time 1 September 2017

    Isabelle Westbury
    Former Western Storm player on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra

    That was some neat glovework from Rachel Priest.

    It's very close and I think more than anything Bryony Smith has been given the benefit of the doubt.

    It was too close to call.

  9. Not outpublished at 18 overs

    Stars 87-4

    Ooh, this is close... and it's been given not out!

  10. Postpublished at 15:17 British Summer Time 1 September 2017

    Smith's back foot does lift as she advanced forward and it's close - is she on the line?

  11. Umpire reviewpublished at 18 overs

    This is good from the Stars - they're not getting full value for their shots as the outfield is slow but they're running hard enough to keep the score ticking over. Rachel Priest has a loud appeal for a stumping as Bryony Smith swings and misses...

  12. Postpublished at 15:15 British Summer Time 1 September 2017

    Isabelle Westbury
    Former Western Storm player on BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra

    I think anything below 110-120 will be chaseable. Around 130 is the par score in the WSL so far.

  13. The NatMegpublished at 15:12 British Summer Time 1 September 2017

    This was Nat Sciver at her best a little earlier.

  14. Stars 80-4published at 17 overs

    Smith 4, Dunkley 25

    Freya DaviesImage source, Rex Features

    Four! Sophia Dunkley welcomes Freya Davies back with a shimmy down the pitch and carves her straight down the pitch for four! Dunkley tries the same thing with a wide delivery, stretching to reach, and an edge just spoons beyond an advancing Fran Wilson. Davies pops down a slower ball that befuddles Bryony Smith but these two keep picking the gap and running the singles to milk 10 runs from the over.

  15. Stars 70-4published at 16 overs

    It's not a quick outfield at Hove and this pitch is keeping low. Both Sophia Dunkley and Bryony Smith tap singles here and there as Stafanie Taylor skips in, before Dunkley makes a mess of a sweep and narrowly avoids an edge onto her stumps. The ball ended up hitting her back, rather than the bat. Taylor then rounds off another fine over with a quicker delivery that beats Smith's attempted cut.

  16. Stars 67-4published at 15 overs

    Smith 1, Dunkley 17

    Jodie Dibble spears through her final over and beats Sophia Dunkley, before Dunkley comes charging down the pitch and pierces a single down towards long-off. That's Dibble's work done for the day with the ball - she finishes her stint with figures of 4-0-16-0.

  17. Stars 64-4published at 14 overs

    Taylor 2-0-8-1

    Bryony Smith is the new batsman at the crease. She'll be looking to stick around to accelerate in the final few overs. Probably not if she misses another delivery like that, though, as Stafanie Taylor gets a delivery to sit up and miss Smith's back foot punch.

  18. Postpublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 1 September 2017

    Katherine Brunt
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Marizanne Kapp needed to try to bat through.

    She was trying to go up the gears and get up to a run a ball but she chose the wrong ball to attack.

  19. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 13.3 overs

    Kapp c Knight b Taylor 19 (Stars 63-4)

    Gone! Marizanne Kapp slaps her pads in frustration! She was looking to accelerate, got down on one knee and ended up spanking the ball high into the air. Heather Knight just had to wander forward at cover and take the catch.

  20. Postpublished at 15:00 British Summer Time 1 September 2017

    Nat Sciver was the most recent wicket to fall for Surrey Stars, with two of her international team-mates combining to dismiss the all-rounder.