Both Alex Hales and Dawid Malan look like they want to give themselves at least a couple of balls before really looking to go on the attack - as they will have to do to get 196.

It means just three from Dan Worrall's first five and he's going to bowl five more.

Dan Worrall is bowling the first five for London Spirit and Alex Hales starts with a single.

The chase is under way...

No rain at Lord's and the players are back out for the start of the Trent Rockets innings.

They need 196 to win. That would be a record run-chase in The Hundred...

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Colin Ackermann will play for Southern Brave against Welsh Fire tonight as a temporary replacement player after the ECB made an amendment to the The Hundred regulations.

A statement says that the change was required due "a current situation with Southern Brave men’s team who have illness and injury (but such injuries do not merit permanent replacement events) that threatens their ability to field a fit XI today, therefore threatening the integrity of the competition."

Ackermann, who scored a century for Leicestershire against Lancashire in the One-Day Cup yesterday, will only be available for tonight's match as it stands but the situation will be assessed ahead of Brave's next match.

There's been quite a heavy drizzle here at Cardiff for the last few balls but for now, play continues.

The Fire get past that par score from previous years as we enter the final 20 balls.

Thanks, Callum. Enjoy your first ever yum-yum, you'll never look back...

Anyway, that was some innings by Dan Lawrence and arguably an even more incredible stop from Sam Hain on the boundary.

There are going to be plenty more fireworks if Trent Rockets are going to chase this down!

Time for me to go and eat some pastry goodies that have kindly been bought by Sam Drury.

He's going to take over and run you through the Rockets' chase of 196.

The ball after reaching 50 Sophia Dunkley is clean bowled by Chloe Tryon, putting an end to her impressive partnership with Sarah Bryce.

Lauren Bell bowled the five most recent balls, getting smashed for a huge six and then a four by Laura Harris. Bell has currently been taken for 38 runs off just 15 balls.

From the first two years, the par women's score at Sophia Gardens was 119, but Welsh Fire are likely to fly past that. The Southern Brave do have quite the batting line-up, though.

We saw some seriously impressive hitting in that London Spirit innings.

We'd already seen one good piece of fielding from Sam Hain, but what followed later on was literally sublime.

We'll bring you that shortly, but for now enjoy this good catch.

Sophia Dunkley has come back to haunt her old team, the Southern Brave, reaching a half-century off 32 balls.

Dunkley and Sarah Bryce have a 72-run partnership at the moment. Both were batting lower in the last match, but with Hayley Matthews absent, they have both been bumped up the order and it is proving to do the trick!

After that sensational stop Ravi Bopara takes two off the penultimate ball and final ball.

He finishes with 25 not out of 13 balls.

Spirit post a brilliant 195-4.

It is going to be one hell of a chase if Rockets get near this.

Oh, Sam Hain. That is SENSATIONAL!

Ravi Bopara goes big down the ground and Hain at long-on is well over the boundary rope, horizontal to the ground, but takes a stunning one-handed catch with his weaker left hand.

He then manages to throw is back over the rope and save four runs.

Brilliant stuff.

We saw power and now we've seen guile from Ravi Bopara.

He opens the face of his bat and just guides Sam Cook past short third for four more.

Spirit 185-4published at 96 balls

96 balls

Oh, Ravi Bopara. That is massive.

He just stands still and swivels Sam Cook over the square-leg boundary for six.

Superb timing.

A good set from Ish Sodhi, conceding just six runs.

Sodhi finishes with 2-29 from his 20 balls on debut.

Tough one to call.

It is one of them where we've got to question whether it bounces off the turf into the hands or off the fingers and further into the hand.

It's really hard to tell and ultimately the decision goes in Ravi Bopara and London Spirit's favour.

I think that's fair enough.

Has Ravi Bopara been caught at point?

Lewis Gregory isn't sure at all so the umpires have sent it upstairs for another look.

That's 16 balls in a row where the Welsh Fire have failed to score a boundary. Plenty of singles, with only three dot balls coming in that spell.

Welsh Fire reach the halfway stage with 75 on the board. If they level that in the second half, 151 could be a tough chase.

That's good stuff from Luke Wood to be fair.

Many bowlers would have folded after that start but he only concedes three from the legitimate five balls in the set.