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 58-2

    Target 167

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    The experienced Sarah Taylor is out there now. She may as well just have some fun.

    We're halfway through the chase and Fire are nowhere near halfway through their runs.

  2. New batter: Sarah Taylor

    Sarah TaylorBBC Sport/ECB

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

    As I said, that's why Danni Wyatt should have been bowling...

  4. Stephan Shemilt
    Commentator on BBC Red Button and iPlayer

    That's Michael Carberry's commentators curse!

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Smith c Mandhana b Wyatt 33 (Fire 58-2)

    That's why Danni Wyatt is bowling! She proves us all wrong by nipping out the wicket of Bryony Smith. Smith chipped the ball straight to the fielder.

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

    These are very odd tactics...

  7. 6 runs

    Fire 58-1

    Danni Wyatt is on for a bowl! I can't remember the last time I saw her bowl.

    Maybe this is why... Bryony Smith pumps her for a four and then a six!

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

    It's going to take a minor miracle for Welsh Fire to win from here.

  9. Fire 48-1

    Target 167

    I think Southern Brave's fans can already start booking their hotels for a night in London a week on Saturday.

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

    That was a lovely piece of bowling, just thrown up a little bit higher. Matthews never really found her timing on this pitch. They needed to get away to a flier and they just haven't.

  11. Stephan Shemilt
    Commentator on BBC Red Button and iPlayer

    Danni Wyatt was never going to drop that.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Matthews c Wyatt b Wellington 18 (Fire 45-1)

    First one gone! Southern Brave just look a class above here. Wellington tosses the ball up, Hayley Matthews skies it and Danni Wyatt is safe as houses under the high ball.

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

    I asked for a partnership at the start of this innings - but not one this slow. with these two, it is either hit out or get out time.

  14. Fire 44-0

    Need 123 more runs to win

    Did some inside knowledge help Taylor there? Her first five balls only cost three runs. Welsh Fire are going nowhere.

  15. Hit out or get out, says Michael Carberry on t'radio. He's right... the Welsh Fire worm looks poor in comparision.

    The worm shows Welsh Fire Women are 15 runs behind Southern Brave Women. Welsh Fire Women are 41 for 0 after 35 balls. At the same stage Southern Brave Women were 56 for 0

  16. It's West Indies v West Indies now with Stafanie Taylor bowling to Hayley Matthews.

  17. Fire 41-0

    Need 126 more runs to win

    It looks a lovely day in Southampton. They save all the rain for whenever I am there.

  18. Fire 37-0

    Need 130 more runs to win

    Spinner Amanda-Jade Wellington whirls through another over. It was going well until Bryony Smith charges down the pitch and bobs her back over her head for four. There's a lovely crowd building at the Ageas. Smith's shot is greeted with polite applause.

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  20. Fire 29-0

    Need 138 more runs to win

    Shrubsole continues - Southern Brave stacking their top bowlers to the front of the innings.

    Fire are ticking along but you just fear it's only going one way.