Summary

  • Brave close out thriller despite Spirit's fast start

  • Spirit 141-7: Inglis 55, Garton 2-30

  • Brave 145-6: Davies 50, Cullen 2-27

Live Reporting

Jack Skelton and Callum Matthews

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

    A boundary changes it all!

  2. Spirit 140-6

    Need 6 runs to win

    Oh my days.

    Roelof van der Merwe does a full tumble backwards but still manages to batter a drive over the covers for four!

    How are your nerves, Chris Jordan?

  3. Spirit 136-6

    Need 10 runs to win

    Chris Jordan sends down a yorker that strikes Blake Cullen on the pads.

    Spirit sneak a leg-bye.

  4. New batter: Blake Cullen

    Blake CullenBBC/ECB

  5. Tymal Mills finishes with 1-15 off 20 balls. Exceptional.

  6. wicket

    WICKET

    Nabi c Davies b Mills 9 (Spirit 135-6)

    London Spirit are making a right hash of this!

    Tymal Mills takes pace off the delivery and Mohammad Nabi completely mis-times his stroke to pick out Alex Davies in the covers.

    Southern Brave are favourites now - no set batters in for Spirit and Chris Jordan to bowl the final five.

  7. Spirit 135-5

    Need 11 runs to win

    Chaos as Spirit sneak a bye through to De Kock.

    Chance of a run out at both ends but neither come off.

  8. Spirit 134-5

    Need 12 runs to win

    Take a bow, Liam Dawson.

    A fine diving stop on the rope as Mohammad Nabi looked to have flashed it off the edge for four.

    Should be two but Dawson gets it in so quickly, it's just a single.

    Brave do miss the cut-off and have to bring a fielder up.

  9. Spirit 133-5

    Need 13 runs to win

    Van der Merwe inside edges it just past his stumps and they sneak a single through to keeper De Kock.

  10. Spirit 132-5

    Need 14 runs to win

    Swing and a miss by Van der Merwe.

    Lightning from Mills.

  11. 10 balls to goBBC Sport

  12. Spirit 132-5

    Need 14 runs to win

    Nabi slashes out to the deep to pick up two.

    I don't think Brave are going to make the cut-off time here.

    Mills will have to bowl five balls in three minutes.

    They could well have to bring another fielder into the ring.

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

    Chris Jordan is so chilled under pressure. He's so used to closing out games.

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

    Chris Jordan does this so well.

  15. Spirit 130-5

    Chris Jordan gets his radar spot on this time, round the wicket to right-hander Mohammad Nabi and right on the margin with a wide-ish one angled across.

    Nabi misses and it's not wide enough to be called wide.

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  17. Spirit 130-5

    Need 16 runs to win

    Chris Jordan sends down a wide.

    But responds with a dot ball. Edgy stuff.

  18. Spirit 129-5

    Need 17 runs to win

    New man Roelof van der Merwe picks up a single to return Mohammad Nabi to the strike.

    Tymal Mills is yelling at his Brave team-mates to get back to their marks quickly, clearly worried about the cut-off time.

  19. New batter: Roelof van der Merwe

    Roelof van der MerweBBC/ECB

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

    Quinton de Kock was full-stretch Superman there. Wow!