Summary

  • Fire stumble to 46-4 inside first 50 balls and never recover

  • Four wickets for Abbott, who concedes just eight runs off 15 balls

  • Originals reach 149-9 - Salt top-scores with 38; Ball 4-29

  • Openers Salt & Buttler race to 66 off 34 balls

  • Fire still winless in competition but Originals up to fifth with first win

Live Reporting

Michael Beardmore

  1. Saqib Mahmood
    England bowler on BBC Radio

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    The beauty of what we've seen is how calm Manchester Originals have been. All they have done is bowl it stump to stump and not let Welsh Fire score runs.

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    Banton c&b Abbott 3 (Fire 14-2)

    This is going very, very badly for the visitors.

    Tom Banton gets his angles all wrong as he loops one up in the air for Sean Abbott to take a caught and bowled.

  3. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio

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    The Manchester Originals are hitting hard lengths and making it very difficult for Welsh Fire to score.

  4. Saqib Mahmood
    England bowler on BBC Radio

    Hain's has already lasted longer than he did last time. He was out first ball before.

  5. Fire 13-1

    Target 150

    Sam Hain is the new batter in, but he's barely got a bat on the four deliveries he's faced.

    Fire have been stuck on an unlucky 13 for a while now.

  6. Fire 13-1

    Target 150

    What a set from Mitchell Stanley.

    Dot. Dot. Wicket. Dot. Dot. Like the perfect Morse code for a bowler.

  7. Aatif Nawaz
    BBC Radio

    Mitchell Stanley has the breakthrough! The dangerous Joe Clarke has gone. The Welsh Fire lose their first wicket.

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    Clarke c Abbott b Stanley 10 (Fire 13-1)

    Was Joe Clarke a bit frustrated by those couple of dot balls?

    He tries to go big but only locates Sean Abbott at deep square leg and the Aussie takes a very good running, diving catch.

  9. Fire 13-0

    Target 150

    Two dot balls off the first two balls of Mitchell Stanley's second set.

  10. Fire 11-0

    Target 150

    Tom Banton finally gets a look-in after Joe Clarke hogged the first seven deliveries.

    He's off the mark with a two off Hartley.

  11. Fire 8-0

    Target 150

    And having doubled his tally from two to four, Clarke does so again from four to eight with a classy drive to long off for a boundary.

    Tom Hartley to bring some spin into the attack for the Originals.

  12. Fire 4-0

    Target 150

    A mis-field from Andre Russell and that's another two for Joe Clarke.

  13. Fire 2-0

    Target 150

    Drama from the off as Joe Clarke gets a bit of a top-edge on Mitchell Stanley's first ball but it trickles away for two.

  14. Welsh Fire chasing 150 to win

    Here we go then, the Manchester Originals fielders emerge to an ovation from the home crowd before engaging in a team huddle.

    They're followed out by Welsh Fire openers Joe Clarke and Tom Banton.

  15. Welsh Fire will be looking for some hitting like this one from Manchester Originals' Andre Russell...

  16. Welsh Fire to chase 150 to win

    Thanks, Josef.

    And a very exciting chase it promises to be too. It's a reachable target but Welsh Fire's best score this season in the Hundred is 126-5.

    So it's by no means a foregone conclusion.

  17. That's me done.

    I'll leave you in the very capable hands of Michael Beardmore who will be across Welsh Fire's chase.

  18. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
    Former IPL batter on BBC Radio

    Welsh Fire finished very strongly. Manchester Originals will be very disappointed with their effort. When they lost Buttler and Salt the wickets kept falling.

  19. A reminder, the Originals were 66-0 after 34 balls.

  20. Alison Mitchell
    BBC Radio commentator

    Phil Salt got Manchester Originals off to such a blistering start and the crowd were up on their feet for a while. They are now sat firmly in their seats.