Summary

  • Brave win by nine runs to make it three from three

  • Originals look to be cruising to target but lose six wickets for 24 runs

  • Opener Lamb brings up fifty off 42 balls but receives little support

  • Brave hit 136-5 thanks to Mandhana's 43 off 25 balls and Wyatt's 31 off 24

  • Originals have now won one, lost two

  • Friday's matches: Phoenix v Superchargers women at 15:30 BST, men's at 19:00

Live Reporting

Timothy Abraham, Josef Rindl and Ffion Wynne

  1. Originals crumble as Brave remain unbeaten

    Amanda-Jade Wellington and wicketkeeper Carla Rudd hug as Southern Brave celebrate a wicketGetty Images

    Southern Brave continued their unbeaten run in the women's Hundred with a 10-run win over Manchester Originals.

    India's Smriti Mandhana struck 43 from 25 balls as Brave looked set up for a big first-innings total.

    But Sophie Ecclestone took the key wickets of her England team-mates Danni Wyatt and Sophia Dunkley to restrict Brave to 136.

    Originals began their chase comfortably, reaching 102-2, with England opener Emma Lamb scoring 57.

    But they lost six wickets for just 24 runs as they slumped to a disappointing defeat, Brave leg-spinner Amanda-Jade Wellington claiming three wickets.

    Lizelle Lee walks off the pitch after getting out with her bat over her shouldersGetty Images

    What else happened?

    • England opener Danni Wyatt made 31, adding 64 for the first wicket with Mandhana.
    • Lizelle Lee scored 25 from 16 balls as she kickstarted the chase with Lamb, but no other batter made more than 12 as Originals finished on 128-8.
    • The game was the highest attendance for a women's domestic match at the Ages Bowl, with 8,788 spectators.

    What's next?

    • The Originals' next game is against Northern Superchargers on Sunday 21 August at Headingley, while Southern Brave travel to Cardiff to take on Welsh Fire on Monday 22 August.

  2. 'We stuck at it'

    Anya ShrubsoleGetty Images

    Southern Brave captain Anya Shrubsole, speaking to Sky Sports: "I'm really proud of the girls. That was a game we probably didn't deserve to win but we stuck at it. We knew there were some key wickets. Credit to [Amanda-Jade] Wellington for getting the key wickets of Lee, Dottin and Ecclestone.

    "We just hung on in there and got over the line.

    "I largely let [Wellington] get on with it, she knows her game really well. She's a really quality leg-spinner. She loops it up, it's a style of bowling I think the English players aren't used to. She's our main wicket-taking threat."

  3. Amanda-Jade WellingtonGetty Images

    Hero of the match Amanda-Jade Wellington of Southern Brave, who took for 3-27, speaking to Sky Sports: "I was nervous but confident bowling near the end. We are having a great start to the tournament.

    "Smriti Mandhana and Danni Wyatt set the pace for us. We've been in that situation before. With 100 balls you never know what can happen but we took our opportunity.

    "At the moment I am using my wrong 'un and it's working - I feel I am bowling well. To get two top players out like Lizelle Lee and Deandra Dottin was crucial. They are two big wickets. We saw the pitch turning and knew they would hit square which they did."

  4. You sense there might be an inquest from the Manchester Originals after that one.

    They crashed, crumbled and capitulated to defeat.

  5. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    A third on the spin for Southern Brave. Applause rings around the venue, they've turned this game around. It looked like it was going the way of Manchester Originals, but they kept on plugging away and taking wickets.

  6. champagne moment

    Southern Brave win

    Alas, Eleanor Threlkeld can only manage a dot and a single for Manchester Originals.

    They fall 10 runs short of Southern Brave's total.

  7. wicket

    WICKET

    Griffith run out (McGrath) 2 (Originals 126-8)

    Eleanor Threlkeld hammers the ball straight. Too straight in fact, and Tahlia McGrath deflects the ball on to the stumps to run out the unfortunate Cordelia Griffith at the non-striker's end.

    Two sixes needed.

  8. Carlos Brathwaite
    West Indies all-rounder on BBC radio

    Bowling this last set, there's no better feeling than when it becomes mathematically impossible.

  9. Originals 126-7

    Eleanor Threlkeld manages to get a boundary.

    11 off three.

  10. Originals 121-7

    16 runs off five balls. Unlikely, but not impossible.

    Eleanor Threlkeld and Cordelia Griffith the batters at the crease.

    Aussie seamer Tahlia McGrath will bowl the last set.

  11. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    Mandhana's hands have been like a magnet today.

  12. wicket

    WICKET

    Cross c Mandhana b Bell 1 (Originals 118-7)

    Manchester Originals have capitulated.

    Slower ball from Lauren Bell and Kate Cross can only spoon the ball into the hands of Smriti Mandhana.

  13. Carlos Brathwaite
    West Indies all-rounder on BBC radio

    Just feel as though they've lost a little bit of momentum. Two batters at the crease, and over two runs needed per ball.

  14. Originals 118-6

    19 runs needed of 10 balls.

  15. 10 balls to go graphicBBC Sport

  16. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    That could be the game. Lamb looking to play an aggressive role, didn't work out.

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    Lamb c Adams b Shrubsole 57 (Originals 118-6)

    Brave have put their foot on the throat here.

    Anya Shrubsole smells blood and bowls her final set.

    She gets the key wicket of Emma Lamb, well caught by Georgia Adams.

  18. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    Horrible running, and pressure tells as Tahuhu goes.

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    Tahuhu run out (Wyatt/Shrubsole) 1 (Originals 114-5)

    Oh dear. A second run which was never there and the Brave keep their cool in the field. Lea Tahuhu is on her way back to the dugout.

    Wickets aots now.

  20. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    Mandhana, who has shown safe hands at mid-off today, had a lot of time to think about that.