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. Mandhana repreived after no ball

    Pressure tells!

    Smriti Mandhana slaps Piepa Cleary straight to the fielder at mid-off - but it's a no ball!

    Oh, no...

  2. Brave 19-0

    Piepa Cleary has had a change of ends.

    Smiri Mandhana unfurls a couple of lovely drives that can't get past the fielder at mid-on.

  3. Brave 19-0

    Danni Wyatt goes for another heave ho but has to settle for a single, and that's all the Brave can create from Matthews' first set of five.

  4. Here's Hayley Matthews, bowling in a cap, which is always an excellent move.

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

    Wyatt is brilliant to share a dressing room with. You are always laughing when she's in the dressing room. She is calm - not really thinking about cricket. She is probably talking about the football scores or something.

  6. Brave 18-0

    Wyatt 12, Mandhana 5

    It's all going quite well for Piepa Cleary, before she serves up a juicy full toss that Smriti Mandhana whacks for four.

  7. Brave 12-0

    Piepa Cleary bowls the next set of five and watches Danni Wyatt slap her straight through the hands of the diving fielder at point to pick up four. Ouch.

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

    That was not the greatest of shots. You can't drop catches like that at any level.

  9. dropped catch

    Mandhana dropped on 0

    Brave 8-0

    Oh dear...

    Smriti Mandhana makes a complete misjudgment and slaps the ball to deep mid-wicket, where Alex Griffiths gets underneath it - and spills is!

    That's... that's a bad drop, let's be honest. She had it and then just completely lost control of her hands.

  10. Brave 6-0

    A little more dangerous from Danni Wyatt, trying to go for the big heave-ho, and she's lucky that the ball bobbles over the top of the backpedalling fielder at mid-on.

  11. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    This is a Galactico batting line-up for Southern Brave.

  12. Brave 4-0

    Oh, and Danni Wyatt plonks the first ball back down the ground for four!

    Lovely stuff.

  13. The Southern Brave picked up an eight-wicket win when they last faced Welsh Fire, by the way.

    Bryony Smith will open the bowling...

  14. Opening batter: Smriti Mandhana

    Smriti MandhanaBBC Sport/ECB

  15. Opening batter: Danni Wyatt

    Danni WyattBBC Sport/ECB

  16. Here come the Welsh Fire, decked out in red.

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  19. Teams

    Southern Brave XI: Smriti Mandhana, Danni Wyatt, Sophia Dunkley, Stafanie Taylor, Maia Boucher, Amanda-Jade Wellington, Anya Shrubsole (capt), Fi Morris, Carla Rudd (wk), Lauren Bell, Tara Norris.

    Welsh Fire XI: Bryony Smith, Hayley Matthews, Georgia Redmayne, Sarah Taylor (wk), Sophie Luff (capt), Alice Macleod, Peipa Cleary, Georgia Hennessy, Katie George, Nicole Harvey, Alex Griffiths.

    Officials: Graham Lloyd, Jasmine Naeem, Robert Robinson, Sophie McLelland, Stephen Davis.

  20. Fire win toss & bowl

    We've had the toss at Sophia Gardens - it's gone the way of Welsh Fire, who have opted to have a bowl first up.

    There's just the one change, with Fire opting to bring in all-rounder Alex Griffiths for Hannah Baker.