Summary

  • Brave reach target of 152 with three balls to spare

  • Vince 60 off 38 balls c Tahir b Moeen

  • Phoenix 151-3: Livingstone 68* off 44 balls, Hammond 44* off 29

  • Livingstone & Hammond put on stand of 104

  • Moeen bowled for 0 as Phoenix slip to 47-3

  • Brave win toss & bowl

  • Southern Brave lost their opening two games

  • Birmingham Phoenix won one and lost one

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry and Phil Dawkes

  1. 6 runs

    Brave 113-2

    Need 39 more runs to win

    Six more! Devon Conway this time sends Moeen Ali towards the hotel. The hosts are big favourites now. Those five balls from Moeen cost 18 runs. Ouch.

  2. 6 runs

    Brave 106-2

    Six to Alex Davies! This is the over for Southern Brave and it's England's Moeen Ali they're going after.

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

    It would be wrong of me to pick any team but the Southern Braves. Short-form run-chases now would be happy with this situation.

  4. Brave 99-2

    Conway swings and makes good contact. Four runs - his first boundary. The Brave needed that.

  5. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
    Former IPL batter on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    We have a brilliant game on. It also seems like it is drifting from the Brave. With a couple of wickets the Phoenix have just dragged it back their way.

  6. Brave 95-2

    57 runs needed from 30 balls

    This game is well and truly on. The win predictor is now at 52% in Birmingham's favour.

    Moeen will bowl next...

  7. Brave 94-2

    Absolutely Stephen.

    Benny Howell squeezes the game once more with two dots at the start of his latest set. Davies gets a run off the next ball bit it is only one.

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    Stephen R Gould: Vince c Tahir b Mockers, surely?

  9. Brave 93-2

    Need 59 more runs to win

    Imran Tahir roars like a man who has just seen the X3 pull away as he arrived at the bus stop as new batter Alex Davies edges wide of the keeper.

    Conway has been in for 19 balls and still hasn't hit a boundary.

    It's close.

  10. Brave 87-2

    Target 152

    The game looks back in the balance with Vince out. Conway needs to find the boundary.

  11. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
    Former IPL batter on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    It is a massive wicket. It is a lot to do with the way Conway has batted as he hasn't been able to time it as he would want. All the big hitting was down to Vince. In doing so he has got that top edge.

  12. Next batter: Alex Davies

    Alex Daviesd
  13. wicket

    WICKET

    Vince c Tahir b Moeen 60 (Brave 82-2)

    Ha. Sorry James. My bad.

    It's game on again as Vince top-edges a sweep into the hands of Imran Tahir.

  14. Brave 81-1

    Need 71 more runs to win

    Is a James Vince hundred out of the question here? He's dominating the scoring.

  15. You want to see another worm? Of course you do...

    50 ball run chase

  16. Brave 73-1

    Liam Livingstone on for a bowl after his big-hitting earlier...

  17. Well we're halfway through and Brave aren't halfway to their total. Maybe this isn't as clear-cut as I have been suggesting.

    James Vince has been at his beautiful best, scoring all around the wicket. There's a timeout at the moment, by the way.

    James Vince half century

  18. 50 balls to goBBC/ECB

  19. Brave 71-1

    Need 81 more runs to win

    Back to Benny Howell and his 50 variations. He says he has developed them by watching baseball pitchers.

    Not the same, I know, but I watched the softball at the Olympics the other day. Great fun. Vince would probably cover drive them as well.

  20. Brave 63-1

    Target 152

    This is Southern Brave's first home game in The Hundred. James Vince, who plays all of his cricket here for Hampshire, is standing tall.