Summary

  • Brave ease to seven-wicket win over Spirit

  • Birmingham Phoenix men end Trent Rockets' 100% record

  • Smeed gets Phoenix off to thrilling start with 36 off 13 balls

  • Rockets 144-6 - Malan 51, Hales 38

Live Reporting

Jack Skelton

  1. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    Perfect time for a wicket - Rockets were just getting going.

  2. wicket

    WICKET

    Patel c Smeed b Howell 31 (Rockets 106-3)

    Benny Howell makes a key breakthrough!

    Samit Patel gets down on one knee and tries to shovel the ball into the stands but can only pick out Will Smeed at deep backward square leg.

  3. 25 balls to goBBC Sport

  4. Back under way at Lord's after the rain subsides. London Spirit are ticking along at a run-a-ball with 30 off 30 against Southern Brave.

    Spirit are batting first having won the toss and Tammy Beaumont is unbeaten on eight but Deandra Dottin is still struggling, with just one run off 11 balls faced.

  5. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Two

    Dawid Malan, once he has faced more than 20 balls, his strike-rate in The Hundred goes to 166.

  6. Rockets 106-2

    Samit Patel whacks Imran Tahir through the covers for four!

    Big last 25 balls to come.

  7. Rockets 101-2

    Hands on head from Tahir as Malan misses but Benjamin drops it. Or was that an edge?

  8. Rockets 101-2

    Better from Malan as he finds the fence for four.

  9. I'm assuming Carlos is number one?

    Or is it Samit Patel?

  10. Carlos Brathwaite
    West Indies all-rounder on BBC Test Match Special

    Imran Tahir is my wife's second favourite cricketer because she's seen him tie me up in knots on the field so many times.

  11. Imran Tahir is back into the attack.

  12. Alex Hales found his timing early on today, a slight shame we didn't get to see more...

  13. Rockets 96-2

    Singles apiece for Malan and Patel to end Brown's set of five.

  14. 6 runs

    Rockets 93-2

    Samit Patel mashes a flat six over the ropes off Pat Brown, just beyond the dive of Adam Milne.

    Vital stuff from the all-rounder.

  15. So near, yet so far...

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  16. Rockets 86-2

    Samit Patel gives the Rockets' innings some much-needed impetus by following up that six with a four.

    Dawid Malan, take note.

  17. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    Samit Patel has had enough of hitting ones and twos off Moeen Ali.

  18. 6 runs

    Rockets 81-2

    Hello Samit! Patel launches Moeen Ali into the stands.

  19. Rockets 73-2

    Dawid Malan clatters one through the covers for four. Plenty more of that needed.

  20. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    This is pretty much spin from Benny Howell; quick spin.