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A return catch by Heather Graham on the 99th ball of the innings ends the match, Spirit(less) all out for 123 to give Fire a win by 15 runs.
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Deandra Dottin given LBW on review for 15 (13) to make it 119-9 from 95 balls, 20 needed off the last five. Dottin, like her side as a whole, has had a pretty ordinary tournament.
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It is unusual for Lucy Higham, mainly renowned for her off spin, to be batting having not bowled, but that is the situation in this match. Quite why London Spirit bother to pick her if they don't intend using her main skill is a mystery.
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Seren Smale goes for 17 and that is 107-8 from 88 balls, 32 needed off 12 balls for the win.
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Seren Smale (Spirit) and Sophia Smale (Fire) are not related, though they are both 21 years old and share a surname and both have forenames beginning with S. Seren was born near Wrexham in north Wales, Sophia near Newport in South Wales.
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A wide, a four and single end the innings, giving Fire a final total of 138-7. Respectable on the face of it, but they were 49-1 from their Power Play, which means that they scored 89-6 from their last 75 balls, a rate 1.19 per ball. 1.34 per ball for those 75 balls would have given them 150 - and that is the sort of total they should have had. In the end it was only some late hitting from Wareham that got them close to 140.
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Dean hits straight back by having Wareham caught by Pavely for 50 (34) to make it 132-7 with two balls to go.
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50 up for Wareham from 33 balls with six fours and six. Fire are 132-6 with three balls to go.
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Fire making a bit of a mull of their innings after a flying start - Em Arlott's dismissal makes it 114-6 with 11 balls to go. They will be lucky to reach 130, when after that Power Play (49-1) they should have comfortably topped 150.
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Nightmare with the ball for Katie George. She has bowled 10 balls for 30 runs, including a sequence of four fours of successive legal balls (broken by a wide after the third four). Fire 49-1 after their 25 ball Power Play.
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One ball left, nine needed to win. All Wood now has to do is bowl a legal ball. He does so, and it ends up being a dot, giving Spirit the win by eight runs, which is a lot closer than it looked like being at the halfway stage.
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Three balls left and Fire need 17 to win or 16 to tie. The first of them only yields two, making it 14 needed from two balls.
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Fire 147-6 after 95, need 17 from the last five balls of the match.
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Bairstow has launched back to back sixes to reduce the ask to 19 off eight balls.
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10 balls left, Fire need 31 to win. A very tough ask, but at one point I didn't think Fire would make it this far.
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Fire just keeping hopes alive - they are now 113-6 from 80 balls, needing 51 off the last 20 at 2.55 per ball, current rate 1.40 per ball.
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25 balls left, Fire need 61 more runs at 2.44 per ball, current rate 1.37
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A sequence of five balls yields Fire 21 runs, and they are 94-6 after 70 balls, needing 70 runs from the last 30 balls at 2.33 per ball, current rate 1.34 per ball.
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This may be the worst review of an LBW by a fielding side ever seen. The impact was outside leg stump, and the ball was missing leg stump.
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60 balls gone and Fire are 70-6, needing 94 from the last 40 balls at 2.35 per ball, current rate 1.17 per ball.
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Halfway in the "chase" and Fire are 56-6, needing 108 from the last 50 balls at 2.16 per ball.
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Another one gone - Walter basically giving Williamson catching practice off Liam Dawson. Fire now 54-6 from 48 balls, need 110 from 52 at 2.12 per ball.
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Strategic time out - largely because one of the scoreboards is displaying wrong information. Nothing will help Fire from here - they are 53-5 from 45 balls, needing 111 from 55 balls at 2.02 per ball to win.
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Welsh Fire making a Horlicks of this chase. They are 43-5 after 35 balls, needing 121 more from 65 balls at 1.86 per ball (9.30 per set of five, 11.16 per over in old money).
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Spirit end their 100 balls with a score of 163-5, a big score anywhere, and frankly a massive one at Cardiff, which is not noted for high scoring.
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Meredith finds the edge but Bairstow's glove work isn't good enough to hold it.
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In terms of the fielding side's involvement the wicket of Kane Williams may feature the greatest combined height of any in this tournament thus far - Paul Walter the catcher and Josh Hull the bowler.
Spirit 43-1 from 35 balls.
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This evening's match could be dubbed the 'sandpaper' battle, with David Warner playing for London Spirit and Steven Smith featuring for Welsh Fire.
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One ball left, three runs to win, two to tie. Elwiss is brilliantly caught at long on and Spirit win by two runs.
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Jonassen run out coming back for a second and just failing to get there. Four runs needed from two balls.
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@_hypocaust Poor dismissal, but the one suffered by Gibson the following ball was even worse because she had the benefit having already seen what had happened to Griffith.
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