Summary

  • South East Stars reach 139-5 to win final by five wickets

  • Alice Capsey's 40 not out sees them home after slump from 71-0 to 85-4

  • Northern Diamonds totalled 138-4 in the final after opting to bat first

  • Skipper Hollie Armitage top scored for Diamonds with 59 not out off 48 balls

  • Earlier, Diamonds beat Southern Vipers by 18 runs in eliminator game

  • England's Lauren Winfield-Hill hit 65 off 49 balls for Diamonds

  • Jenny Gunn made 22 not out in their score of 135-6

  • Vipers were bowled out for 117; Gunn taking 4-26

Live Reporting

Adam Williams and Paul Grunill

  1. 50 runs

    50 for Hollie Armitage

    Diamonds 117-4

    Half-century for Hollie Armitage. A real skipper's knock this in an important situation.

    It's come from 41 balls with four fours.

  2. Diamonds 114-4

    And there's some of the pressure easing.

    Hollie Armitage drives Bryony Smith straight down the ground for four.

    She moves on to 48.

  3. Diamonds 110-4

    Armitage 44, Gunn 9

    Six balls. Six singles.

    Rinse. Repeat.

    Three overs to go. You feel something is about to give though...

  4. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Test Match Special

    There's a little bit of a holding pattern in this over, we've seen five singles.

  5. Alice Davidson-Richards back on for her third over from the Pavilion End...

  6. Diamonds 104-4

    Armitage 41, Gunn 6

    Diamonds pass 100 courtesy of a wide down the legside from Alice Capsey.

    It's singles only for the rest of the over though as Armitage and Gunn rotate the strike.

  7. Alice Capsey returns for her third over from the Hotel End...

  8. Diamonds 97-4

    Armitage 38, Gunn 3

    Eight runs off Bryony Smith's third over.

    Diamonds edging towards 100 with five overs to go.

  9. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Test Match Special

    Great wicket-taking because it's a partnership that's broken and that will help ease a little bit of the pressure that was building.

  10. Diamonds 94-4

    A boundary at last for Diamonds!

    Been a long time coming but finally Hollie Armitage is able to pull a short ball away to the rope down to deep square leg.

  11. Diamonds 89-4

    Armitage 32, Gunn 1

    Jenny Gunn in at six for Diamonds after the loss of Sterre Kalis' wicket.

    Can she repeat her big-hitting heroics from earlier?

    Kalis and Hollie Armitage had added 43 for that fourth wicket.

  12. wicket

    WICKET Kalis c&b Smith 18

    Diamonds 88-4

    Breakthrough time after a promising partnership.

    Bryony Smith into her third over around the wicket to these two right-handers.

    Hollie Armitage again shows the value of turning ones into two as she scampers back in time from a leg glance.

    But Sterre Kalis has to go as she drives one straight back at the bowler who clings on well low down for a return catch.

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  13. Diamonds 85-3

    Armitage 29, Kalis 18

    Kalea Moore continues into her third over.

    Again boundaries not easy to find as Hollie Armitage can only get two for a pull behind square and Sterre Kalis the same for a fine sweep.

    Seven runs from that over.

  14. Henry Moeran
    Commentator on BBC Test Match Special

    We've got a good crowd in who are really enjoying themselves and it looks like we've got a really exciting game on our hands. 78-3 after 12 is a heck of a platform for the Diamonds.

  15. ouch!

    Break in play at the end of that over as Stars skipper Bryony Smith receives treatment on a bruised finger.

    She fumbled that last ball at cover but seems OK to carry on.

  16. Diamonds 78-3

    Armitage 25, Kalis 15

    More hustling of runs between the wickets from Hollie Armitage as she finds a two off Alice Davidson-Richards to start the over.

    But, it's singles only for every ball after that as a boundary eludes the Diamonds.

  17. Robbie James
    BBC Radio Solent commentator

    If they can get through to 14 or 15 overs just three down, then the Diamonds can really start to go and put their foot on the accelerator.

  18. Diamonds 71-3

    Armitage 20, Kalis 13

    Strike rotation the name of the game for Diamonds off Bryony Smith's second over.

    But also some testing deliveries too from the Stars skipper to concede just four from it.

  19. Jemma Green
    Former Hampshire Women player

    I think the Diamonds should be looking for that 140 total score from this stage, similar to what they got in the first game.

  20. Diamonds 67-3

    Armitage 18, Kalis 11

    Kalea Moore returns for a second over and apart from a wide down the legside in the middle, it's tidy and uneventful.

    Just what Bryony Smith was after following that previous over costing 14.

    Halfway stage of this Diamonds innings.