Summary

  • Victory takes Brave through to final but Fire eliminated

  • Fire fall well short in difficult run-chase

  • Brave openers put on 107 for first wicket; finish on 166-3 (tournament record score)

  • Mandhana 78, Wyatt 53

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Amy Lofthouse

  1. Fire 111-3

    Target 167

    Welsh Fire will be unable to reach the latter stages if they lose this game. They need 56 from the final 15 balls.

  2. 6 runs

    Fire 109-3

    Six again to Sophie Luff! Where has this been?!

  3. Fire 102-3

    Georgia Redmayne gets down on one knee as if proposing to one of the pigeons to the side of the pitch. She sweeps and has hit this so well neither of the fielders in the deep can stop it.

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

    I loved the shot, and liked the swagger Luff showed after it.

  5. 6 runs

    Fire 98-3

    Need 69 runs from 20 balls

    Shot! Sophie Luff thumps the ball high into the air and it sails over the head of the fielder on the boundary edge. Too little too late but an impressive shot to remember the game by.

  6. Worm update

    Worm

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  8. Fire 90-3

    Need 77 more runs to win

    Danni Wyatt is a really good fielder, isn't she? She zips around the boundary edge and fires the ball in. She's also very easily identifiable with her sunglasses and blonde hair is peeking out the back of her cap.

  9. Welsh Fire have never really been in this chase. This was how they lost their first wicket...

  10. Fire 85-3

    Need 82 more runs to win

    Georgia Redmayne is actually playing quite nicely despite my pessimism. The ball cracks off her bat as a Tara Norris delivery is cracked away towards the large stand opposite the hotel.

  11. Game over now, surely?

    The worm shows Welsh Fire Women are 26 runs behind Southern Brave Women. Welsh Fire Women are 78 for 3 after 65 balls. At the same stage Southern Brave Women were 104 for 0.

  12. Fire 78-3

    Need 89 more runs to win

    Sophie Luff gets her first boundary with the help of some slightly ropey fielding. There was a lot of jumping as the ball sailed over the fielder's head and very little effort to chase it down. It was Smriti Mandhana. She has plenty of credit in the bank.

  13. Fire 70-3

    Target 167

    Here's Sophie Luff. Good luck, skip.

  14. New batter: Sophie Luff

    Sophie LuffBBC Sport/ECB

  15. Michael Carberry
    Ex-England batter on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    That's another body blow. Southern Brave have ticked all departments. They have been a lot sharper in the field than Welsh Fire and they have bowled a lot smarter.

  16. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Stafanie Taylor wins the battle of the Taylors!

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    Taylor st Rudd b Taylor 4 (Fire 70-3)

    Stafanie Taylor gets Sarah Taylor! Welsh Fire really are in the mire now.

  18. Emily Windsor
    Trent Rockets player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Sarah Taylor is Welsh Fire's last hope - and she'll have to do something unbelievably special.

  19. Fire 66-2

    Need 101 more runs to win

    Georgia Redmayne creams a drive out to the boundary. It's still probably not going to be enough.

    Fire were definitely hurt badly by the loss of Aussies Meg Lanning and Beth Mooney for this tournament.

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