Summary

  • Van Niekirk (67 not out) and Adams (42) help Invincibles to eight-wicket win

  • Burns (45) top scores in Phoenix's 129-9 after home side win toss

  • Farrant takes 3-23 in her 20 balls, Van Niekirk 2-16

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Callum Matthews

  1. Invincibles 91-1

    39 runs needed

    Fran Wilson scampers off the mark to end Kirstie Gordon's set of five.

  2. Chris Green
    Middlesex all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    This needs to spark something special now. They need to get Dane van Niekerk out now and get two new batters.

    If they can get a gap of 10 between the balls remaining and runs needed you just never know.

  3. New batter: Fran Wilson

    Fran WilsonBBC Sport/ECB

  4. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Finally the breakthrough! Whatever the conversation was during the timeout it seems to have made a difference.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Adams c Verma b Gordon 42 (Invincibles 90-1)

    Someone has taken a catch!

    It's Shafali Verma who holds on to the leading edge from Georgia Adams to finally break this partnership. Kirstie Gordon looks delighted as she heads over to celebrate.

  6. Here's the first of three drops from Birmingham Phoenix in the field.

  7. Chris Green
    Middlesex all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Phoenix need something special here and this is where their key players need to stand up.

    Amy Jones will need to use her trump card, and maybe do something a little bit different with her field.

  8. Invincibles 88-0

    42 runs needed

    Birmingham Phoenix decide to take a time-out.

    "Don't drop catches" would be a good place to start.

  9. Chris Green
    Middlesex all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Gwen Davies barely got a hand on it. It is another chance gone begging. They just haven't been good enough so far.

  10. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Oh, goodness me. Gwen Davies will just want the ground to disappear.

  11. dropped catch

    Adams dropped on 34

    Oh, this has gone horribly wrong.

    Georgia Adams lofts the ball down the track, Gwen Davies gets underneath it, misses, gets hit on the head and sends the ball over the boundary rope for six.

    The catching has been... beyond average.

  12. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    This is a proper you win this 19 times out of 20.

  13. At the halfway stage, the Invincibles were well ahead of where the Phoenix were in setting their total of 130...

    Invincibles chase wormBBC Sport

  14. Invincibles 80-0

    50 runs needed

    Back-to-back boundaries from Georgia Adams ends a chastening five-ball spell for Birmingham Phoenix.

  15. Chris Green
    Middlesex all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Phoenix's intensity has dropped and that just puts even more things in Invincibles favour.

  16. Invincibles 79-0

    51 runs needed

    Georgia Adams adds insult to injury by thwacking Phoebe Franklin's next delivery back over Kirstie Gordon's head for four.

  17. Chris Green
    Middlesex all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    She just never looked settled under that catch. I think that is going to be a costly moment.

  18. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Oh, that is an appalling drop. You would expect to take them 100 times out of 100.

  19. dropped catch

    Van Niekerk dropped on 40

    Invincibles 67-0

    That is an absolutely dreadful drop from Kirstie Gordon.

    Dane van Niekerk thrashes the ball high into the air, almost straight to Gordon at mid-off, and she gets both hands to it before spilling it. Ouch.

  20. 50 balls to go graphicBBC Sport