Summary

  • Match reduced to 85 balls per side after rain delay

  • Brave chase down 105 with three balls remaining

  • Bouchier hits superb 63 not out off 42 balls to take Brave to victory

  • Glenn claims 3-15

  • Spirit post 104-5 after Knight hits 44 off 27; Adams takes 4-11

  • Brave go top with third win from four; Spirit winless after two previous washouts

  1. Brave 30-1published at 65 balls left

    76 runs needed

    Bouchier pulls hard again, sending Charlie Dean's first ball to the ropes.

    Dean drops the ball a little short and Wyatt tries to loft her over mid-wicket, but doesn't really get hold of it and the ball dribbles to the fielder for a single.

    A good comeback from Dean, only two singles after that initial four.

  2. Brave 24-1published at 70 balls left

    Wyatt gets straight into the action as we change ends, hitting Tara Norris square and then through fine leg for successive fours.

    Bouchier pulls the final ball for a further boundary.

  3. Brave 11-1published at 75 balls left

    Spirit copy Brave in using their ten ball set at the beginning of the innings with Gibson continuing.

    The Brave batters run two leg byes for their first runs of the innings. Two further twos from Bouchier follow before she lofts Gibson over the cover ring for four.

    Danni Wyatt is yet to face a delivery.

  4. Brave 0-1published at 80 balls left

    New batter Maia Bouchier, herself fourth on the tournament batting charts, is next up for Brave. She plays out two dots - wicket maiden for Gibson.

  5. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 82 balls left

    Mandhana c Kerr b Gibson 0 (Brave 0-1)

    Gibson has Mandhana this time!

    She holes out to Amelia Kerr down at fine leg. Gibson drew an edge, had an lbw appeal and then had Mandhana caught. Remarkable first three balls.

  6. Not outpublished at 17:14 British Summer Time 8 August 2023

    Pitching outside leg - we don't need to see anything else from ball tracking.

  7. Brave reviewpublished at 83 balls left

    Do Spirit have the tournament leading scorer with their second ball?

    Mandhana is given out lbw but she sends it upstairs.

  8. Postpublished at 17:12 British Summer Time 8 August 2023

    Thanks Tom.

    The formidable Southern Brave opening pair of Smriti Mandhana and Danni Wyatt are strolling to the middle. They lead the tournament's run scoring charts this season with 144 and 114 respectively.

    Danni Gibson will open the bowling for Spirit, as she did the batting.

  9. Postpublished at 17:05 British Summer Time 8 August 2023

    The London Spirit players are already warming up in the field. Given their first two matches were washed out you can understand their enthusiasm.

    Southern Brave need 105 from 85 balls to win and go top of the table.

    Here to guide you through their chase is Mike Peter.

  10. Spirit 104-5published at 85 balls

    Grace Scrivens and Niamh Holland scramble four singles from the last four balls of the innings to lift Spirit to 104-5, meaning Southern Brave need 105 to win.

    That feels a little below par, but batting conditions look tricky out there so this could go either way.

  11. Spirit 100-5published at 81 balls

    Lauren Bell goes around the wicket to the left-handed Grace Scrivens but she begins with a rather ugly full toss that Scrivens fends away for two to bring up the Spirit 100.

  12. Spirit 98-5published at 80 balls

    New batter Niamh Holland gets a boundary with a lovely, delicate sweep that disappears fine and over the rope.

    Grace Scrivens then plays a lovely lofted drive that perhaps deserved four but plugs in the turn and the batters run two.

    Just five balls of the innings to go. It looks like Lauren Bell will bowl them.

  13. Spirit 89-5published at 75 balls

    It has been the Georgia Adams show so far.

    She ends with figures of 4-11 from her 20 balls and is now the tournament's leading wicket-taker.

  14. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 72 balls

    Knight c Moore b Adams 44 (Spirit 88-5)

    Adams has four!

    Heather Knight goes for the reverse-sweep but can only club the ball straight to Kalea Moore at deep square leg.

    Knight departs for 44. That is a huge wicket for Brave.

  15. Spirit 87-4published at 70 balls

    That is a better set for Brave by Chloe Tryon, with just the three singles off it.

    There are 15 balls left in this innings, where can London Spirit get to from here?

  16. Spirit 84-4published at 65 balls

    That latest wicket puts more pressure on Heather Knight as the set batter. She is rising to the challenge though, smacking Kalea Moore away for three fours in four deliveries.

    Knight races on to 43 from just 25 balls.

  17. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 60 balls

    Ghosh c Bouchier b Adams (Spirit 69-4)

    That's out though.

    It is a loose slog by Richa Ghosh that is well taken by Maia Bouchier at long-on

    Ghosh departs for one. Adams has a third wicket!

  18. Not outpublished at 57 balls

    Ooh, so unlucky for Georgia Adams!

    Hawk-Eye showed the ball was just going to clip leg stump but was umpire's call, so the on-field decision stands.

  19. Brave reviewpublished at 57 balls

    Has Georgia Adams struck again?

    Richa Ghosh is sweeping at a straight one but misses the ball and it hits her pads.

    The umpire turns down the appeal, but Brave send it for a review.

  20. How's stat?published at 16:41 British Summer Time 8 August 2023

    Kalea Moore was Southern Brave's sixth bowler of this game. They're not always inclined to mix up their attack - in two of their three matches they've handed five bowlers their 20 balls - the maximum allowed - and not turned to anyone else.

    Only Northern Superchargers have followed suit in their match against Birmingham Phoenix.

    Meanwhile the Phoenix have fielded eight bowlers in the two matches they've played.