Summary

  • London Spirit needed 96 off 41 balls to reach eliminators and knock out Birmingham Phoenix

  • They were 63-3 after 41 balls; completed victory in 58 balls

  • Knight & Gibson both unbeaten on 34

  • Welsh Fire finish bottom

Live Reporting

Ffion Wynne and Timothy Abraham

  1. New batter: Nicole Harvey

    Nicole HarveyBBC Sport

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

    Danielle Gibson has been brilliant with the ball today.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Griffiths c Monaghan b Gibson 6

    Alice Monaghan has a safe pair of hands. Alex Griffiths goes big to Danielle Gibson, but is caught at deep long-on.

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

    I can't believe what just happened. Both batters were in the middle of the pitch, Tammy Beaumont literally has the ball in her hand to make a run out but she throws the ball to the other end?! What have we just seen?

  5. Fire 91-8

    Tammy Beaumout misses one which nips away and there's fouir byes added to the total.

    A ball later and Beaumont has a brain freeze with a run out chance, throwing to the non-striker's end when she could have just taken the bails off at her end.

  6. 10 balls to goBBC Sport

  7. Fire 85-8

    Three singles of that set from Charlie Dean. A Fire debut for Nat Wraith today.

    Every run vital for London Spirit if they are to pull off this chase in 41 balls.

  8. New batter: Nat Wraith

    Nat WraithBBC Sport

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

    Another easy wicket given away. Welsh Fire have been really disappointing today.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Hennessy b Dean 11

    Fire are eight down with 13 balls left. Georgia Hennessy advances down the pitch, gets her angles wrong as she attempts to heave it to leg, and is bowled by Charlie Dean.

  11. Aatif Nawaz
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Sophie Munro could've given her team an even better chance there! It wasn't the easiest catch, she was diving for it.

  12. dropped catch

    Dropped catch

    A bread-and-butter catch for Sophie Munro is put down. She was running around from mid-off to her left after Alex Griffiths chips one into the air off Charlie Dean but shells it.

  13. New batter: Alex Griffiths

    Alex GriffithsBBC Sport

  14. Aatif Nawaz
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Well, that's not going to help Welsh Fire but it's certainly going to help the Spirit! Katie George was trying to clear the longest boundary, which was always going to be difficult.

  15. wicket

    WICKET

    George c Gibson b Dean 5

    A slog sweep from Katie George to Charlie Dean but she has toed it skyward. Danielle Gibson has a safe fair of hands and comfortably pouches the catch at deep mid-wicket.

  16. Daniel Norcross
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    It feels like an odd choice to bowl Freya Davies here. The runs have been much easier to come by from the pace bowlers.

  17. Fire 76-6

    Freya Davies with the ball in hand. Katie George rocks back to her first ball and clunks it to cow corner and the ball races away for four.

  18. 25 balls to goBBC Sport

  19. Fire 72-6

    A miserly set from Deepti Sharma with just one run taken off it. London Spirit are bounding round the outfield - they believe they can pull this off.

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

    It's on a knife edge at the moment!