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Leus du Plooy smokes Steven Finn for another six. This time shuffling down the track and whacking it over the long boundary square of the wicket.

Matt Critichley takes a shine to Originals skipper Carlos Braithwaite. He clatters the West Indies man down the ground for four, and gets another more fortuitously when it spears off a top edge over the wicketkeeper's head.

A slower ball from Lockie Ferguson is clipped aerially down to fine leg by Leus du Plooy, which has fine leg briefly interested in a catch before it thuds into the turf.

Wickets continue to tumble in Leeds in the clash of two of the three remaining unbeaten Women's sides, Northern Superchargers and Oval Invincibles

Linsey Smith was sixth out looking to reverse sweep Mady Villiers and almost yorked herself.

20 balls left.

"They're 20 or 30 runs behind where they ought to be, " says BBC summariser Peter Trego.

You may have noticed on the television that the players today are wearing rainbow laces.

ECB CEO Tom Harrison said: "I'm proud to see our game standing squarely behind inclusion.

"We're driven by our desire to open up the game to as many people as possible. We want cricket to be a game for everyone and we want the LGBTQ+ community to both feel welcome and able to be themselves in our sport."

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Lockie Ferguson, sporting the kind of a moustache you would associate with a spitfire pilot, is pumped into the stands by Leus du Plooy. It's stand and deliver from Du Plooy who almost effortlessly whacks him down the ground. Wow.

Steven Finn with a pensive look on his face as he walks back to his mark and ponders his next delivery. Leus du Plooy is on the march down the pitch again, but doesn't really connect and the ball goes high and... safe.

Chris Woakes
England all-rounder on BBC Two

Du Plooy has added real impetus to this innings and changed the momentum.

Steven Finn returns to the bowling attack.

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Another six! Leus du Plooy charges down the wicket and hits Matt Parkinson for another maximum over long-on.

Teenage star Alice Capsey keeps up her cracking start to life in The Hundred.

After top-scoring with 59 in the Oval Invincibles' win over London Spirit in midweek, she's now doing it with the ball, having just picked up two wickets in three balls.

Home skipper Lauren Winfield-Hill tried to go downtown and was caught behind by wickie Sarah Bryce, who also could have had her stumped.Then Bess Heath hit her second ball straight back to the 16-year-old spinner.

Laura Kimmince then goes cheaply too, caught at point for 5 but Alice Davidson-Richards is still there on 23.

Phil Tufnell
Former England spinner on BBC Two

When I played here for Middlesex, they had a bloke in a dinghy behind the stadium who would pick the balls out of the River Taff and chuck it back.

Welsh Fire's innings was stuttering a little bit but Leus du Plooy brings back a bit of momentum. He is down the track to Matt Parkinson and nonchalantly whacks him for six down the ground.

Parkinson set to bowl another set of five.

Chris Woakes
England all-rounder on BBC Two

It's not been high-scoring, Manchester have managed to stop the runs, and that run-out has stopped Welsh Fire in their tracks.

Two new batters and spinner Matt Parkinson into the attack for the Originals.

Colin Ackermann's set finishes with three singles.

Isa Guha
Former England bowler on BBC One

That is brilliant, sensational work from Ackermann - he is effectively aiming at one stump there.

Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Two

That one moment could be matchwinning. Duckett was playing nicely. Duckett should have dived though, it might have made all the difference.