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. Melissa Story
    BBC Radio

    Looking at the scores so far, the average score in last year's Hundred was 138. This year, there's already been five scores of 150 or more, and 10 over 140.

  2. Brave 74-1

    We'll continue with spin with Sophie Ecclestone about to bowl another set. She was hit round the park by Smriti Mandhana. How will she fair against Sophia Dunkley?

  3. Melissa Story
    BBC Radio

    That's a drop, how big a moment was that one?

  4. Wyatt dropped on 26

    Brave 71-1

    Oooof.

    This could be a big moment. Hannah Jones comes into the attack for the first time and immediately has a chance, unable to cling on to a Danni Wyatt drive which is hit with pace straight back to her.

  5. 50 balls to go graphicBBC Sport

  6. Brave 71-1

    Pretty even at the halfway stage. But you feel the Southern Brave have plenty more gears to go up to.

  7. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    The ball just had enough on it. You'd expect Dottin to stop that because she got so far.

  8. Brave 69-1

    Danni Wyatt is going for it now, smashing a shot on the swivel and finding the boundary off the bowling of Emma Lamb and past Deandra Dottin on the dive.

  9. Brave 64-1

    A great set from Kate Cross, just one ball and that key wicket coming from it.

    Sophia Dunkley is in at three by the way.

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

    Good captaincy by Kate Cross there, good field placement and catching.

  11. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    That is a huge breakthrough! Mandhana was looking quite dangerous, Kate Cross in the full sleeves does it.

  12. wicket

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    Mandhana c Lamb b Cross 43 (Brave 64-1)

    The danger batter goes!

    Smriti Mandhana goes long with a pull shot but doesn't get enough on it and is caught on the legside boundary.

    The opener falls for 43 off 25. Breakthrough for the Originals.

  13. Brave 63-0

    The last ball of Ecclestone's latest set goes for no run. The damage had already been done.

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

    She kept her balance, showing full face of the bat. That's one of the most difficult shots to play, especially while going down the track.

  15. Brave 63-0

    Next ball, slapped for four.

    Mandhana is on a roll, moving to 43 off 22.

  16. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    The ball's been dispatched over wide long-on. Not often does Ecclestone receives that sort of treatment!

  17. 6 runs

    Brave 59-0

    Oh that's brilliant!

    Eccleston is punished as Smritit Mandhana uses her feet, comes down the ground, and launches the ball over the legside for six.

  18. Brave 51-0

    A single off the last ball of the set. Now it's time for Originals spinner Sophie Ecclestone against Brave batter Smriti Mandhana.

  19. Brave 50-0

    I was just about to write we haven't seen a boundary for some time but Danni Wyatt ruins that post with a crisp drive through the covers for four.

    That brings up the Braves' 50 as Wyatt moves to 18.

  20. Henry Moeran
    BBC Radio

    Dottin had a brilliant time in the last game. When she gets it right, few get the better of her.