Summary

  • Patel rips game from Fire's grasp - was bowled on 39 by Payne no-ball

  • Wahab takes 4-30 as Fire fall from 125-3 to 138-8

  • Phillips hits half-century for hosts

  1. Rockets 50-1published at 63 balls left

    90 runs needed

    Oh! Alex Hales gets a slice of luck as he drives as Qais Ahmad and a thick outside edge beats both the keeper and the fielder, who ends up escorting the ball into the boundary rope.

  2. Rockets 45-1published at 65 balls left

    95 runs needed

    Graeme White whirls through a very tidy first set of five for Welsh Fire.

    Worm
  3. Rockets 41-1published at 70 balls left

    99 runs needed

    That's the target down to double figures.

  4. Rockets 39-1published at 73 balls left

    101 runs needed

    Dawid Malan paddle sweeps delicately and finely to pick up four.

    Oh, and then thumps his next ball through the covers for another boundary! Lovely stuff.

  5. Postpublished at 20:50 British Summer Time 6 August 2021

    Here's Qais Ahmad.

  6. Postpublished at 20:49 British Summer Time 6 August 2021

    75 balls leftImage source, BBC Sport
  7. Postpublished at 20:49 British Summer Time 6 August 2021

    Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    There's so much analysis about Dawid Malan's career with his world ranking. I almost feel bad for him, because he always seems to get a hard time from everyone.

  8. Rockets 30-1published at 75 balls left

    110 runs needed

    Alex Hales tries to send Matthew Milnes into the middle of Cardiff city centre, and just misses out.

    Dawid Malan tries something similar and gets two runs for his troubles.

  9. Rockets 25-1published at 80 balls left

    115 runs needed

    Tidy enough from Luke Fletcher as he finishes his next set of five.

    Worm
  10. Rockets 21-1published at 84 balls left

    119 runs needed

    Dawid Malan, the top-ranked T20 batter, is in at three, and pushes a Luke Fletcher delivery off his toes to get going with a boundary.

  11. Postpublished at 20:42 British Summer Time 6 August 2021

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

    That was exactly what the Welsh Fire needed and it's the big wicket in the form of D'Arcy Short.

  12. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 85 balls left

    Short c White b Milnes 7 (Rockets 17-1)

    And he strikes with his final delivery!

    D'Arcy Short goes for a big heave of the bat but can only skew the ball high into the air, giving Graeme White plenty of time to settle himself underneath it and take a good, clean catch.

  13. Postpublished at 20:41 British Summer Time 6 August 2021

    Matthew Milnes is coming on to bowl.

  14. Postpublished at 20:37 British Summer Time 6 August 2021

    Now this is how to nail a yorker...

    Media caption,

    'Wonderful execution' - Wahab 'nails yorker' to bowl Neesham

  15. Rockets 15-0published at 90 balls left

    125 runs needed

    David Payne begins his set of five, and Alex Hales just leans back and delicately dabs the ball down towards the boundary for the gentlest of fours.

    Oh, make that four more! On the pads from Payne and it's whipped away with disdain by Hales.

  16. Postpublished at 20:34 British Summer Time 6 August 2021

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  17. Rockets 6-0published at 95 balls left

    134 runs needed

    Alex Hales hustles a single to get his innings up and running.

  18. Rockets 4-0published at 98 balls left

    136 runs needed

    Shot!

    D'Arcy Short drills his next delivery down the ground for four.

  19. Rockets 0-0published at 99 balls left

    140 runs needed

    A big swing and a miss from D'Arcy Short first up.

  20. Postpublished at 20:31 British Summer Time 6 August 2021

    Luke Fletcher will open the bowling.