Kia Super League Finals Day: Surrey beat Loughborough at Hove for first title

Summary

Surrey Stars beat Loughborough Lightning by 66 runs to win first title
Surrey Stars made 183-6 batting first
Opener Lizelle Lee smashed 104 from 58 balls, with six sixes
Loughborough bowled out for just 117 in reply
The Stars beat Western Storm by nine runs in earlier semi-final

Live Reporting

Paul Grunill and Adam Williams

Weather outlookpublished at 11:57 British Summer Time 27 August 2018
It was a miserable day yesterday weather-wise in many areas, but Mel Coles had good news about today's prospects for the south coast.
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World Cup winners on show at Hovepublished at 11:55 British Summer Time 27 August 2018
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This season's Women's Super League has given fans another chance to enjoy the cricketing talents of some of England's 2017 World Cup winners.
Surrey Stars can call upon Natalie Sciver, Sarah Taylor and Laura Marsh, while England captain Heather Knight, Fran Wilson and Anya Shrubsole have all appeared for Western Storm this summer.
Georgia Elwiss and Jenny Gunn are the two England representatives in the Loughborough Lightning side preparing for the final in a few hours' time.
No Mandhana for Western Stormpublished at 11:53 British Summer Time 27 August 2018
Semi-final: Western Storm v Surrey Stars (12:00 BST)
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If you were to pick a player of the tournament, you wouldn't have to look too much further that Western Storm's Smriti Mandhana.
The India opener scored 421 runs in her nine innings in the group phase, making her comfortably the leading run-scorer in the competition.
However, Mandhana's international commitments mean she's missing Finals Day. How will Storm, the defending champions, cope without their star batter?
Toss and teamspublished at 11:51 British Summer Time 27 August 2018
Semi-final: Western Storm v Surrey Stars (12:00 BST)
Western Storm skipper Heather Knight has won the toss and opted to field first.
Their side shows one change from their final group game with Alice MacLeod replacing absent Smriti Mandhana, with England seam bowler Anya Shrubsole set to fill Mandhana's role at the top of the batting order.
Surrey Stars keep faith with the side that beat today's opponents by five wickets nine days ago, when they chased down a target of 159 with two balls to spare.
Western Storm: Priest, Mandhana, Knight, Stafanie Taylor, Wilson, Luff, Dattani, Shrubsole, Nicholas, Gibson, Davies.
Surrey Stars: Lee, Smith, Sarah Taylor, Sciver, van Niekerk, Dunkley, Kapp, Marsh, Cranstone, Villiers, Gray.
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The formatpublished at 11:49 British Summer Time 27 August 2018
Six teams played each other home and away in the group phase of the Women's Super League.
Finishing top of the table sent Loughborough Lightning straight through to the final at 16:00 BST.
Battling to be their opponents are Western Storm and Surrey Stars, who finished second and third respectively. They will meet in a semi-final, which gets under way at 12:00 BST.
Surrey Stars won both games between the two sides during the group stage - by seven wickets and by five wickets.
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Listen livepublished at 11:47 British Summer Time 27 August 2018
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Listen to every ball of Women's Super League Finals Day on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra.
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Our commentary team by the seaside on this Bank Holiday Monday are Dan Norcross, Alison Mitchell and Isabelle Westbury.
Expert analysis also comes from past and present England internationals Lydia Greenway and Alex Hartley.
Henry Moeran will be our intrepid roving reporter.
Whose name is on the KSL trophy this year?published at 11:45 British Summer Time 27 August 2018
Seconds out - round three!
In 2016, it was Southern Vipers who took the Kia Super League crown in its inaugural year beating Western Storm.
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In 2017, the Storm came raging back and got their revenge against the Vipers.
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In 2018, the Storm are back, but they have competition from two other sides keen to put their names on the trophy for the first time in Surrey Stars and Loughborough Lightning.
Who will end up walking home with the silverware come the end of the day?