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. 10 balls to goBBC Sport

  2. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    He hit that like a rocket, that's timing for you.

  3. Rockets 127-4

    Dawid Malan absolutely crunches another drive but finds the fielder, so it's just a single.

    That does put him on strike to start the last 10 balls though.

  4. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    You could hear the crunch off the bat with that one!

  5. 50 runs

    50 for Malan

    Dawid Malan brings up his 50 off 39 balls with a towering six off Tom Helm.

    The sound that made off the bat! Sumptuous.

  6. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    Helm has come back well after a tricky first spell.

  7. Rockets 120-4

    Tom Helm sends down a wide yorker that Dawid Malan can't reach. Fine bowling.

  8. Next batter: Rashid Khan

    Rashid KhanBBC/ECB
  9. wicket

    WICKET

    Gregory c Benjamin b Helm 3 (Rockets 119-4)

    Tom Helm took a lot of damage off Alex Hales in his first five but returns to dismiss Rockets captain Lewis Gregory.

    A back-of-the-hand slower ball that dupes Gregory as he top edges it straight up for keeper Chris Benjamin to take.

  10. Rockets 119-3

    Malan 44, Gregory 3

    Can Dawid Malan punish that drop? Just 15 balls left to propel the Rockets to an imposing total.

  11. dropped catch

    Malan dropped on 39

    Miles Hammond, you've had a mare.

    It's a tough chance, granted, as Hammond has to put in the dive trying to snaffle a lofted on-side drive by Dawid Malan.

    But then as he lands, the ball drops out and rolls agonisingly slowly into the rope before he can get up.

  12. "I still hit two fours and two sixes on it," Patel may add.

  13. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Two

    Thanks, agent Brathwaite.

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

    I've been reliably informed by Samit Patel that the pitch isn't as good as we think it is.

  15. Great catch for no wicket...

  16. Rockets 113-3

    Lewis Gregory backs away to take another single to deep cover.

  17. Rockets 111-3

    Lewis Gregory gets off the mark with a single before Benny Howell gifts one down leg side that Dawid Malan glances away for four.

  18. Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Two

    Captaincy is easy when you have so many star performers!

  19. Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Two

    I've been impressed with Lewis Gregory as a captain - he's smart and clever.

  20. Next batter: Lewis Gregory

    Lewis GregoryBBC/ECB