Summary

  • Brave's reply stalls after Vince out for 40

  • Bairstow (72) & Duckett (53) post first 100 partnership of competition for Fire

  • Fire won their opener, Brave lost

Live Reporting

Kal Sajad and Timothy Abraham

  1. Fire 137-1

    This partnership has been worth 94 off 50 balls.

  2. 50 runs

    50 for Bairstow

    That's a half-century for Jonny Bairstow, who salutes the crowd after striking Colin de Grandhomme for two more fours.

    Southern Brave are on the ropes here.

  3. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Keep your eye on Jonny Bairstow because the ball can go anywhere.

  4. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport at Sophia Gardens

    I can confirm that Jonny Bairstow is hitting the ball very hard and the crowd are getting louder with every single run that he scores.

  5. Fire 127-1

    Jonny Bairstow gets in on the action, smashing Colin de Grandhomme for two huge sixes over long-on. The first was flatter, but the second clears the boundary with ease.

  6. Lydia Greenway
    Ex-England batter on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    It's such a well executed shot, Duckett makes it look so natural.

  7. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    This is extraordinary. Four balls, four sweeps, four boundaries. We suspected it would be carnage but the sweeping is blowing my mind.

  8. Fire 114-1

    Sweep, sweep, sweep, sweep. Four, four, four, four. Ben Duckett has taken a shine to Jake Lintott...striking four conseuctive fours off the Brave left-arm wrist spinner.

  9. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    That's what Jonny Bairstow can do. When you're that strong, you can mis-hit it over the boundary for six.

  10. Fire 98-1

    Jonny Bairstow has mishit the ball for six! He attempts to pull Tymal Mills and a lead leading goes over the wicketkeeper's head for a maximum.

    A few balls later and Bairstow use the pace of Mills to strike four behind point.

  11. Fire 85-1

    Left-arm quick Tymal Mills attacking the crease with real purpose, but flummoxes Jonny Bairstow with a slower ball who can only stab it into the pitch.

  12. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Nine wickets in hand, everything must go - they need to start swinging.

  13. Fire 84-1

    A welcome boundary for Welsh Fire as Jonny Bairstow rocks on to the back foot to Craig Overton and pulls his square of the wicket for four. Clinical.

  14. If you've got it, flaunt it, I'd say Ffion.

  15. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport at Sophia Gardens

    I've always been unsure about Colin de Grandhomme's hair and seeing it in real life makes me question it even more. Is it great or is it awful?

  16. Fire 79-1

    The distinctive mullet of Colin de Grandhomme is flapping about at the back on the collar of his green Brave shirt as he runs in to bowl. Jonny Bairstow and Ben Duckett only able to take four from his first five.

    Solid stuff from the New Zealand man. The Fire innings has stuttered a little here.

  17. Fire 75-1

    Danny Briggs, who was twice whacked over the rope by Tom Banton at the start of the innings, is brought into the attack by James Vince.

    The left-arm spinner is a little more miserly as Ben Duckett and Jonny Bairstow take four runs from his set of five. A couple of big flashes of the willow from both men but they are not able to make clean contact.

  18. We are into a strategic timeout. Jonny Bairstow is 16 from 15 balls with just the one boundary so far.

  19. 50 balls to goBBC Sport

  20. Fire 71-1

    Chris Jordan arrows the ball into Ben Duckett's pads and Fire scramble a single. Jonny Bairstow fails to capitalise on a short one and drops it into the leg side.

    Useful changes of pace and length from Jordan.