Summary

  • Wet surface meant delayed start and 65-ball game

  • Roy smashes unbeaten 56 as Invincibles set target of 126

  • Narine takes three wickets to leave Rockets reeling

  • Gregory (28) gets Rockets close but leaders lose by nine runs

Live Reporting

Matthew Henry

  1. Heather Knight
    London Spirit captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    I know Carter is tall but that ball has really bounced. He is having a very good tournament.

  2. wicket

    WICKET

    Narine c & b Carter 1 (Invincibles 45-2)

    Matt Carter does what he does and strikes second ball.

    Carter is very tall, about 6ft 7", and he gets extra bounce and that combined with his extra pace at around 60mph surprises Sunil Narine, who gets in a tangle and ends up looping a return catch to Carter.

  3. Time for a bit more spin in the shape of Matt Carter.

  4. Invincibles 45-1

    Thump!

    Timm van der Gugten goes short and Jason Roy just pumps him to the square leg boundary.

    Don't bowl there Timm.

  5. New batter: Sunil Narine

    Sunil NarineBBC Sport/ECB

  6. Heather Knight
    London Spirit captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    That was coolly taken from Dawid Malan who had seen two catches go down.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Jacks c Malan b Van der Gugten 13 (Invincibles 39-1)

    They have caught one!

    Dawid Malan is by no means the best fielder in the England changing room, but he makes this look simple.

    Timm van der Gugten forces Will Jacks to go deep into his crease and he can't quite clear Malan at long-off.

    Rockets needed that.

  8. Heather Knight
    London Spirit captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    It goes from bad to worse.

  9. dropped catch

    Roy dropped on 18

    You have GOT to catch these!

    Jason Roy clips one straight to Rashid Khan at deep mid-wicket, but the Afghanistan bowler ends of slipping as he looks to take the catch and it just fumbles out.

    These are big misses.

  10. Heather Knight
    London Spirit captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    That is a big hit. Van der Gugten is not enjoying himself too much.

  11. 6 runs

    Invincibles 38-0

    Oh. My. Word. This is huge!

    Jason Roy takes a step down the pitch and just whacks Timm van der Gugten about 15 rows back over long on.

    Massive.

  12. Timm van der Gugten now gets the chance to redeem himself with the ball.

    His first ball will be the final ball of the powerplay...

  13. 50 balls to go graphicBBC Sport

  14. Heather Knight
    London Spirit captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    That was never an easy catch. I think it went up into the flight path.

  15. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    It was one of those that never looked like it was going to stick.

  16. dropped catch

    Jacks dropped on 11

    Oh no!

    Will Jacks top edges straight up and Timm van der Gugten, who is back into the side tonight, just doesn't judge it right, and ends up having to back peddle, rather than being able to set himself, and the ball pops out.

    That could be a costly drop.

  17. Invincibles 29-0

    Four more.

    Will Jacks throws his hands at it and slices it over point and away to the boundary.

  18. Time for a bit of pace.

    Sam Cook, making his Hundred debut, is on.

  19. Heather Knight
    London Spirit captain on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    We thought the wicket might be a bit slow but it looks to be skidding on. We might see a few runs scored.

  20. Invincibles 25-0

    How has that missed!?!

    Rashid Khan hurries Jason Roy with a quicker one, and the right-hander gets a thick edge over the stumps and it cannons into Tom Moores leg behind the stumps.

    That's a life.