Summary

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  • Southern Brave win by two runs

  • Fire needed three from final ball but Mills dismisses Willey

  • Fire 145-6: Eskinazi 31 (18), Willey 31 (19); Mills 2-23

  • Brave 147-8: Jordan 70* (32); Rauf 3-27

  1. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 76 balls

    Ahmed run out (Willey) 1 (Brave 76-8)

    Tap and run from Chris Jordan but he's left Rehan Ahmed high and dry.

    David Willey throws down the stumps at the striker's end and the young spinner is not even in the picture.

  2. Postpublished at 19:29 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    Michael Carberry
    Ex-England batter on BBC Radio

    It has been good, directed bowling and high pace.

    Southern Brave will be disappointed by some of the options they've taken though.

  3. Brave 76-7published at 75 balls

    Shaheen Afridi steams in and just four runs nudged off his set by Chris Jordan and Rehan Ahmed.

    Southern Brave need some boundaries here.

  4. Postpublished at 19:27 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    A Haris Rauf bumper accounted for the wicket of James Fuller a few moments ago.

  5. Postpublished at 19:27 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    Michael Carberry
    Ex-England batter on BBC Radio

    Southern Brave's Leus du Plooy is bowled by Welsh Fire's Roelof van der Merwe during the men's The Hundred match at The Ageas Bowl, SouthamptonImage source, PA Media

    I'm honestly speechless at some of the cricket I've seen in the last 40 minutes.

    It has been some of the worse batting I've seen.

    There seems to be no thought-process.

  6. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 70 balls

    Du Plooy b Van der Merwe 18 (Brave 72-7)

    Roelof van der Merwe bowls 10 balls straight through and bags the wicket of Leus du Plooy with the last of them.

    Du Plooy is deep in his crease and attempts to work it to leg side only for the ball to slip between his legs and clatter into the stumps.

  7. Postpublished at 19:23 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    David Willey was grinning like a Cheshire cat after he got the wicket of Tim David.

  8. How's stat?!published at 19:23 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    Chris Jordan feasts against seam bowlers, with a strike rate of 142. That's versus 88.6 against spin, so Tom Abell may want to give a faster bowlers a rest for the time being.

  9. Brave 68-6published at 65 balls

    Roelof van der Merwe is tinkering with his field, ushering some players a few paces to the right and other steps to the left.

    He's fortunate to get away with a full toss, clothed by Chris Jordan down the ground, with his third ball.

    Southern Brave take a run a ball off that set from the left-arm spinner.

  10. Brave 62-6published at 60 balls

    Leus du PlooyImage source, PA Media

    Leus du Plooy latches on to a full ball first up from David Payne and whips it down to the boundary for four off his legs.

    A couple of dots and two singles in the rest of that set.

  11. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 54 balls

    Fuller c Willey b Rauf 0 (Brave 56-6)

    Haris Rauf is running in with a fierce determination and another rapid short ball accounts for James Fuller.

    The Pakistan paceman bangs it and Fuller spoons the ball into the air attempting to hook. David Willey takes a good catch over his shoulder.

  12. Postpublished at 19:14 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    Thea Brookes
    Former Birmingham Phoenix all-rounder on BBC Radio

    When I played for Birmingham Phoenix two years ago the target was just to string three dots together.

    You always know something is going to happen either way on the fourth ball.

  13. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 50 balls

    David c Clarke b Willey 2 (Brave 55-5)

    Tim David wafts at a wider one from David Willey and edges it into the gloves of Joe Clarke behind the stumps. A very tame dismissal for the Singapore-born Australian.

  14. Postpublished at 19:10 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    James Vince looked a million dollars before he was bowled by David Payne after a rather uncharacteristic shot.

  15. Postpublished at 19:09 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    We've got a bit of a delay relating to an issue with Tim David's helmet. He doesn't appear to have the correct protection around the back of the lid and is given a ticking off by the umpires.

  16. How's stat?!published at 19:07 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    Tim David's weakness is to left-arm seamers, where he averages 22.22 compared to 33.45 when facing bowlers using their right hand.

    Would you bring Afridi back on or save him until the death overs?

  17. Brave 52-4published at 45 balls

    Tim David is struck high on the pad by the frenzied Haris Rauf and is desperate to review it, but Tom Abell calmly talks him down.

    Leus du Plooy squirts Rauf's final ball of the set between gully and point for a boundary.

  18. Postpublished at 19:03 British Summer Time 4 August 2023

    Haris Rauf picked up his second wicket moments ago.

    Here's his first: the scalp of New Zealand international Finn Allen.

  19. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 41 balls

    Garton b Rauf 1 (Brave 47-3)

    Stumps flying everywhere as Haris Rauf strikes.

    Rauf is touching 90mph and George Garton is beaten for pace as his off stump is knocked out of the ground.

  20. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 38 balls

    Vince b Payne 18 (Brave 46-3)

    Welcome to the house of Payne.

    James Vince attempts to give himself room to hit into the off side to David Payne but promptly misses a full ball from the left-arm seamer and is bowled.