Summary

  • Bopara hits 45 off 20 balls to help Spirit post 139-6

  • Phoenix slip to 34-4 in reply before Wade's sublime 81 off 42 gets them close

  • Phoenix then hit five off the final five to secure dramatic one-wicket win

  • Rockets now guaranteed top spot and place in Saturday's final; Spirit will go into eliminator

  • Phoenix not yet eliminated but need Originals v Invincibles on Wednesday to end in either a tie or be washed out to go through

  • Wednesday's games: Superchargers v Brave women (11:30 BST) & men (15:00); Originals v Invincibles women (15:00) & men (18:30)

Live Reporting

Ffion Wynne and Tom Mallows

  1. 10 balls to go graphicBBC Sport

  2. Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
    Former IPL batter on BBC Radio

    London Spirit are going towards a respective total, it could be a match-winning total.

  3. 6 runs

    Spirit 112-4

    There's plenty of life in that shot! Moeen Ali plinks down a half-tracker that Ravi Bopara very nearly heaves out of the ground.

    If Bopara can face the majority of the final 10 a half-century is not out of the equation.

  4. Spirit 99-4

    The ball is keeping really low on this pitch, which appears lifeless at times. Tanveer Sangha bowls a short delivery that should sit up nicely for Bopara to club out of the ground, but it completely dies on him and nearly rolls along the ground through to the wicketkeeper

  5. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Radio

    Another wonderful shot! Bopara is somehow accessing the ball with a crisp cleanliness.

  6. Spirit 96-4

    Ravi Bopara is singlehandedly dragging the London Spirit up to a decent score here. He plays another wonderful sweep shot square onto the leg-side and the ball fizzes over the boundary for four.

    Bopara has raced on to 21 from just seven balls.

  7. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio

    And he's done it again! Sometimes on a pitch like this it takes bravery.

  8. 6 runs

    Spirit 90-4

    And again! This time Bopara has swept it fine over long leg for another six!

  9. 6 runs

    Spirit 84-3

    That's even bigger!

    Ravi Bopara leaps onto a short delivery from Benny Howell and plays a slog-sweep on one knee square into the leg-side for six!

  10. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio

    A lovely shot from Bopara and they needed the boundary as well.

  11. Spirit 78-4

    Ravi Bopara is the new batter and is immediately in the runs, pulling the ball on the front foot through mid-wicket for four.

    Great shot in the circumstances.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Morgan c Wade b Richardson 8 (Spirit 74-4)

    Spirit are crumbling here.

    Eoin Morgan chases after a wide one from Kane Richardson but only succeeds in toe-edging the ball through to Matthew Wade.

  13. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    McDermott who was starting to show some promise has to go.

  14. wicket

    WICKET

    McDermott c Benjamin b Moeen 36 (Spirit 74-3)

    Not any more, Ben McDermott goes!

    He is perhaps through the shot too early and he ends up slicing the ball up to Chris Benjamin in the covers for a simple catch.

  15. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    McDermott is starting to show flickers of his dangerous form.

  16. Spirit 72-2

    Moeen Ali is going to bowl 10 in a row. Risky? Maybe, especially as Ben McDermott as just clubbed the ball back over his head for a one-bounce four.

    McDermott is warming up nicely here.

  17. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    That's what the crowd were waiting for! That is absolutely what the Spirit needed.

  18. 6 runs

    Spirit 64-2

    Moeen Ali brings himself on for a bowl but his third delivery is absolutely smashed by Ben McDermott back over his head and over long-on for a huge six!

  19. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Radio

    Brilliant shot from Eoin Morgan. When you need to get the runs flowing, it takes a risk like that.

  20. Spirit 56-2

    That's more like it, Eoin!

    The Spirit skipper gives himself some room outside off stump and clatters the ball through the covers.

    Great shot.