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Moeen Ali with some of the cleanest striking of a cricket you are ever likely to see.
Summary
Phoenix win in front of sell-out crowd to go top of the table
Tahir - oldest player in tournament - takes hat-trick with final three deliveries of the match
Moeen hammers 23-ball half-century; competition's second fastest
Smeed - the youngest player in men's Hundred - also strikes fast half-century
Phoenix skipper takes 26 runs off one set of five by White
Postpublished at 19:55 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
Postpublished at 19:55 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
Olly Stone
England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraThe look on Glenn Phillips face is a very relieved one. I know if that was me when the ball was in the air the previous drop would have been in my mind.
WICKETpublished at 19:54 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
Livingstone c Phillips b Payne 31 (Phoenix 156-3)
Glenn Phillips atones for his earlier drop by snaffling a catch at deep cover. Liam Livingstone just didn't quite get under that one.
Postpublished at 19:53 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
Olly Stone
England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraPhenomenal strike and a massive hit.
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Phoenix 156-2published at 82 balls
Huuuuggggeeee from Liam Livingstone! It's not a bad ball, fourth stump line, but the Lancashire man mercilessly whacks him about 20 rows back in the Eric Hollies stand. 93 metres!
Phoenix 149-2published at 81 balls
David Payne clocks one on the hand from Will Smeed as he attempts to stop a powerful drive. He's shaking his hand, grimmacing, and is in a little bit of pain here. The physio is on beckoned on to give him some treatment.
Postpublished at 19:49 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
Olly Stone
England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraCrucial dropped catch. Qais Ahamad will be very frustrated.
Dropped catchpublished at 19:49 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
Liam Livingstone skies one off Qais Ahmad. Glenn Phillips runs round from deep mid-wicket but spills the catch. Oh dear. Will the Phoneix pay for that?
Next ball Livingstone swats a full ball from Ahmad down the ground for four.
How's stat?!published at 19:47 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
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End of twitter postPhoenix 140-2published at 75 balls
Can Phoenix get 60 runs off 25 balls to get themselves to 200? Needs some big hitting from Liam Livingstone you feel.
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Olly Stone
England bowler on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraIt has been an amazing innings from Smeed. He has struggled to get into that Somerset side and now I think he will struggle to get out of it. It is great to see.
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50 for Smeedpublished at 19:45 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
Will Smeed looks a talent doesn't he? He's on to a ball from Jimmy Neesham as quick as a flash and gives it some fearful hammer over backward square to send it for six.
It brings him his half-century off 29 balls.
Verma stars as Phoenix beat Firepublished at 19:43 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
Image source, Getty ImagesEarlier today, India's teenage superstar Shafali Verma crunched a rapid half-century as Birmingham Phoenix kept their slim hopes alive with an emphatic victory over Welsh Fire in the women's Hundred.
Read Callum Matthews' report here.
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Birmingham Phoenix women's team are keeping the crowd entertained during the timeout by dancing along to Saturday Night by Whigfield in the DJ booth.
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Strategic timeout called by Fire skipper Ben Duckett. Here's one of those brilliant sixes from Moeen Ali earlier.
Phoenix 132-2published at 70 balls
Luke Fletcher, who doesn't quite fill his Welsh Fire playing shirt despite his ample frame, with some really intelligent bowling.
The tall Fire paceman bowls full and straight, yorker length, into the block hole and Phoenix are unable to find a boundary off his set of five.
Umpire reviewpublished at 19:38 British Summer Time 9 August 2021
A quick check of the technology for a run out after a scampered single by Will Smeed, but he's comfortably home at the non-striker's end.
Phoenix 128-2published at 65 balls
Poor old Graeme White back into the attack and a strong wristy hoik from Liam Livingstone sees him hit for six back over his head. The previous ball he pinged through square leg for four.
If Livingstone gets going we could be on for 200 here.
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There's a lot to love about this picture.
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