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

    Trent Rockets need a few boundaries to get his innings going.

  2. Rockets 27-2

    Need 99 runs from 45 balls

    Liam Livingstone knows exactly what Alex Hales is going through. He was hit in very similar fashion in the Big Bash.

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

    You feel that Trent Rockets need a bit more of a partnership here.

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

    That just got a bit big on Dawid Malan. It hit very high up on the bat and it was a very calm catch.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Malan c Blake b T Curran 6 (Rockets 27-2)

    Tom Curran holds his arms out wide. He gets his England team-mate Dawid Malan caught in the deep.

    The Invincibles are well on top here.

  6. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Alex Hales is running a bit gingerly, I don't think he's quite recovered yet.

  7. Rockets 27-1

    The thumbs up v thumbs down ratio of the last few minutes suggests you're all terrible, terrible people.

  8. 50 balls to go graphicBBC Sport

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

    Well played Reece Topley. There is where you bowl to him because he wants width.

  10. Rockets 25-1

    Target 126

    Unsurprisingly, Hales looks like Piers Morgan did that time facing Brett Lee a ball later but, unlike Morgan, Hales does at least get bat on ball.

  11. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Oh, Alex Hales, I am so sorry.

    Even the umpire is laughing. I don't think there is a single person in the ground, over the age of 12, who isn't laughing.

  12. ouch!

    Rockets 24-1

    Hales has been hit in the same region again!

    Two in a row. Hilarious for everyone but the Rockets' batter.

    Even the umpire is trying to hide a smile.

  13. Let's look back on Jason Roy's fireworks while Alex Hales checks everything is still intact...

  14. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    I should have known it hit him there because he was pounding the ground like a child at Christmas who doesn't get the presents that they want...

  15. The replay has just been shown on the big screen.

    Groans from the males in the crowd.

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

    I'm not sure I can give my analysis on this...

  17. ouch!

    Rockets 24-1

    After whacking a four Alex Hales is down in serious pain after been hit in the... you know...

    On comes the physio but, in the politest way possible, he's not going to be much use.

  18. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

    Alex Hales won't let this go without a fight.

  19. Rockets 18-1

    Need 108 more runs from 55 balls

    There's absolutely no question who this crowd supporting as The Oval falls quiet as Alex Hales whips back-to-back boundaries.

    They're up, joining Mahmood in an lbw appeal a ball later but nothing doing there.

  20. Rockets 9-1

    Saqib Mahmood has Dawid Malan hopping on the spot with a pacey delivery in at the ribs.