Summary

  • London Spirit fall short despite some lusty late blows

  • Short hits unbeaten half-century for Rockets in their 123-4

  • Trent Rockets top the table with three wins out of three

Live Reporting

Kal Sajad and Phil Dawkes

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

    Amir is just slapping and slicing away. He could cause some trouble.

  2. Spirit 74-7

    Rashid Khan, economical as ever, concedes just five from his set.

    So Spirit need 50 from 30 balls but, with only three wickets remaining, it's some ask!

    The worm shows London Spirit Men are one run behind Trent Rockets Men. London Spirit Men are 74 for 7 after 70 balls. At the same stage Trent Rockets Men were 75 for 3.

  3. Spirit 69-7

    Amir is not hanging about.

    The former Pakistan international clobbers Patel down the ground for four.

  4. Spirit 65-7

    Inside edge onto the pads! No hat-trick for Patel!

  5. New batter: Mohammad Amir

    New batter: Mohammad AmirBBC/ECB

  6. Heather Knight
    England captain on BBC Radio 5 Live

    That is a very, very hard catch. He is six foot six and it is a proper reaction catch. It just stuck.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Wood c Carter b Patel (Spirit 65-7)

    Quality reaction catch from Matthew Carter at slip! New batter Chris Wood edges and Carter reaches out and it sticks. Brilliant.

    Samit Patel has his third and is also on a hat-trick!

  8. Heather Knight
    England captain on BBC Radio 5 Live

    It looks like Eoin Morgan is just struggling with a bit of form. It was the right option but he didn't quite get all of it.

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

    Big moment indeed. Morgan looking to hit out there to the long side. I think London Spirit are in trouble now. It will take something special from these bowling all-rounders to chase this down.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Morgan c Wood b Patel 18 (Spirit 65-6)

    Massive wicket for Trent Rockets as Eoin Morgan finds the man in the deep!

    The Spirit captain takes a couple of steps forward and clips Samit Patel to the leg side, Luke Wood with safe hands on the boundary.

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

    Smart batting from Van der Merwe. If he can use the pace of the fast spinners... they have to start upping the ante. I think we may see him target Samit.

  12. Spirit 64-5

    Nope, they can't. Van der Merwe middles it to short third man but you can't be caught out on a free hit.

  13. Spirit 63-5

    D'Arcy Short bowls a high full toss and Van Der Merwe sends it to the fine-leg boundary. And it's a no-ball so a free hit coming up, can Spirit capitalise?

  14. Spirit 56-5

    Reverse sweep, up and over, four. Vintage Eoin Morgan and his team need plenty more of those.

  15. Spirit 52-5

    Lucky! Eoin Morgan lofts it high into the off side, Lewis Gregory is running towards the boundary rope to take a catch over his shoulder but the ball lands safe. Gregory takes a bit of turf out the ground as his foot gets stuck but fortunately he's not hurt.

  16. Worm update - 50 balls to go

    The worm shows London Spirit Men are eight runs behind Trent Rockets Men. London Spirit Men are 48 for 5 after 50 balls. At the same stage Trent Rockets Men were 56 for 2.

  17. 50 balls to goBBC Sport

  18. New batter: Roelof van der Merwe

    New batter: Roelof van der MerweBBC/ECB

  19. Heather Knight
    England captain on BBC Radio 5 Live

    Five wickets now and it is a really tough ask to come back from that. As we've seen in this format, time passes very quickly when you are under pressure. This next partnership will need to be very fruitful to give London Spirit any chance of chasing down this target.

  20. wicket

    WICKET

    Bopara c Moores b Khan 7 (Spirit 48-5)

    Edged and gone! A brilliant ball from a brilliant bowler.

    Ravi Bopara is outdone by the spin, the ball turning away from the right hander, finding the edge and firmly landing in the hands of 'keeper Moores.