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. Yes Ffion, Jonny Bairstow is yet to really get going here.

  2. Ffion Wynne
    BBC Sport at Sophia Gardens

    Chants of "Jonny, give us a six" have just started to get going.

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

    It certainly would have been one for the replays. All in all, he did save four runs so we'll give him extra runs there.

  4. Fire 65-1

    Jonny Bairstow pulls Craig Overton high towards square leg where Ross Whiteley scampers across and attempts a diving catch, but is only able to save the boundary. That would have been some take.

    Ben Duckett finishes off the set of five from Overton with a glorious ramp shot, stepping across his stumps before lifting the ball over Quinton de Kock.

  5. Here's that explosive start to the Welsh Fire innings by Tom Banton.

    Back-to-back sixes for Banton

  6. Fire 55-1

    Jake Lintott continues into a second set of five and off the third ball Ben Duckett is back at him with a reverse switch hit for four, swept all along the floor.

  7. Fire 50-1

    Off the penultimate of the set Ben Duckett turns himself around and reverse sweeps Jake Lintott for four. Superb technique from the Fire batter. Duckett finds the fielder with the final ball of the set.

  8. New batter: Ben Duckett

    Ben DuckettBBC Sport

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

    I have played club cricket with Jake Lintott in Sydney, I know he works incredibly hard on his game and you can see he enjoyed it.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Banton b Lintott 34 (Fire 43-1)

    Left-arm wrist spinner Jake Lintott accounts for the dangerous Tom Banton. The Fire batter dances down the track but he's not picked up the flight, makes a hash of the shot, and is bowled between bat and pad.

  11. Fire 43-0

    Relatively economical stuff from Chris Jordan, with five taken from the over. Jonny Bairstow and Tom Banton with a few flashes of the blade, but they pick out the fielders. James Vince with a glimpse of a run-out chance but Banton makes his ground.

  12. Chris Jordan, one of England's T20 stars, into the attack. He normally gets some of the death overs in international cricket but with Welsh Fire's start James Vince wants to stifle some of this intent.

  13. 75 balls to goBBC Sport

  14. Fire 38-0

    Tom Banton, statuesque at the crease, frees his arms and smears Tymal Mills through the covers for four all along the carpet. A ball later Banton whips Mills off his hips for four behind square.

    A great start by Welsh Fire.

  15. Fire 30-0

    Tymal Mills is coming in off the long run. Tom Banton goes for an expansive drive but the ball takes the edge and whistles away for four behind point.

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

    Even though fans want to see the big sixes and boundaries, you still have to run well and keep that scoreboard ticking along.

  17. Fire 26-0

    Clever stuff from Craig Overton, who is bowling up in the mid-eighties. Two runs and a leg bye from that set. Tom Banton on strike.

  18. Super Smriti stars for Southern Brave

    Welsh Fire have made a good start as they look to level things up after losing to Southern Brave by eight wickets in the women's competition earlier this afternoon.

    Opener Smriti Mandhana was in scintillating form, the India superstar scored an unbeaten 61 from just 39 balls as Brave chased a target of 111 with 16 balls to spare.

    Here are her best bits...

  19. Fire 23-0

    Tymal Mills finishes with a yorker which Jonny Bairstow digs out for a single to keep the strike.

  20. Fire 22-0

    Tymal Mills bowls wide of the crease and full. It's an ugly swipe across the line by Jonny Bairstow but he makes contact and it goes for four through fine leg for his first boundary.

    It's not how, it's how many.