Spirit survive wobble from 108-3 to 124-7 to win opener
Eve Jones (47) & Amy Jones (33) help Phoenix to 128-6
Verma b Davies 13 (Phoenix 24-2)
Freya Davies, that was beautiful. Verma couldn't quite get going, and perhaps she was getting frustrated - so Davies executes a slower ball perfectly, it's loopy and Verma was nowhere near it.
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Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
London Spirit have decided to mix it up, we saw four different bowlers in the first 20 balls but now Freya Davies is coming back.
What a set of five from Deandra Dottin. Eve Jones can't get a run from her first two balls, and the momentum might just be swaying back in favour of the Spirit.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
It was a really good reaction catch as she followed through after releasing the ball. She's an athlete in every sense of the word.
Mack c & b Dottin 7 (Phoenix 22-1)
And she gets the breakthrough! It's a full toss and Mack has tried to whack it straight but can only find Dottin in her follow through.
Deandra Dottin, the West Indies international, comes on to bowl.
She's a really quick bowler - but a funny story is that she once took five wickets against my university team when we went on tour to Barbados - and she was bowling spin.
Good times.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
About time, we were almost waiting for that coil to spring from Verma. She's a very explosive batter and it was a very unlike her innings so far.
And another! This one was hit much harder and straighter. Lovely to watch.
Here she goes! Shafali Verma's patience runs out and she just clubs new bowler Naomi Dattani for four.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
Freya Davies will be very happy with that.
Mack and Verma are running a lot of singles here and are yet to hit a boundary.
You sense it won't be long, though, before Verma gets going.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
That was a lovely bit of innovation from the Australian.
England international Freya Davies bowls the second five, and Katie Mack gets down on one knee and scoops it over her shoulder. It doesn't go for four, but it will just put some doubt in Davies' head about where to bowl next.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
London Spirit had the option to continue with Sharma for another five balls but they've decided to go with Freya Davies.
Matthew Henry
BBC Sport at Edgbaston
The Birmingham kit is very bold. I think I like it.
Image source, Getty ImagesIt's Deepti Sharma, another India player, who is bowling the first five balls for London Spirit.
She bowls a ball that is over waist height to Katie Mack, which results in a free hit that Verma can only swipe for a single.
Isabelle Westbury
Ex-Middlesex captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
Shafali Verma is a big hitter, she likes to clear the rope and hit big sixes.
Aatif Nawaz
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentator
The crowd is still building. I wouldn't say it's a packed house, nowhere near it, but I do think it will build as the day goes on.