- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR2.4 A torturous innings comes to an end! Might be one of the worst knocks of the competition. Crawley tries to slog sweep - Mal Loye style - but gloves onto his pad, and the ball balloons up for a simple take to Joe Clarke down the leg side 5/15.3 Rossington goes, Fire raging! Hoik across the line, trying to force a ball outside off stump through the leg side. Abell takes a smart swirling catch running back from cover 19/43.1 The captain's gone! Dan Lawrence takes a step down and goes to drive inside-out over cover but the length isn't there and cover has a routine catch at head height 5/24.2 Wade goes! Just as this looked like being the start of a salvo for Spirit, Wade skims another scoop through to the keeper 16/310.3 Gone! Short ball, hit to the long side with the wind blowing the other way... and Willey takes a catch about 20 yards in from the boundary sponge 43/515.2 What a catch! Short, heaved towards midwicket, but not all the way. Glenn Phillips charges across and puts in a dive to take the catch a few inches from the ground. 74/618.5 Lockie gets the last laugh! Goes for the stumps again, this time nailing the yorker and burning a hole through middle and off stump 102/719.4 Sharp from Clarke! Slower into the pitch and Bopara scuffs through to the keeper. Thompson runs through but Clarke, already with a glove off, throws down the stumps 109/819.5 Brilliant finish! Slower, slightly fuller... Ellis goes to heave away to the leg side but misses completely and loses his off stump 109/9Extras10 (b 1, lb 2, nb 2, w 5)TOTAL109/9 (20 Overs, RR: 5.45 per 6 ball)Did not bat: DJ WorrallFall of wickets: 1-5 (Zak Crawley, 2.4 ov), 2-5 (Dan Lawrence, 3.1 ov), 3-16 (Matthew Wade, 4.2 ov), 4-19 (Adam Rossington, 5.3 ov), 5-43 (Daryl Mitchell, 10.3 ov), 6-74 (Matt Critchley, 15.2 ov), 7-102 (Liam Dawson, 18.5 ov), 8-109 (Jordan Thompson, 19.4 ov), 9-109 (Nathan Ellis, 19.5 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB DJ Willey 4 1 18 2 4.50 14 2 1 0 0 MJ Henry 4 0 15 2 3.75 11 0 1 0 0 LH Ferguson 4 0 25 2 6.25 10 2 1 0 1 DA Payne 4 0 17 2 4.25 12 2 0 0 0 RE van der Merwe 4 0 31 0 7.75 2 1 0 1 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR1.4 Gone! More advancing and another skier... this time taken comfortably to Daryll Mitchell at cover 12/113.4 Gone! 69/43.2 Gorgeous! Test match dismissal, that. Curving in, enticing the straight drive, shape away catching a sliver of an edge through to the keeper. Beauty 15/23.4 Another! Perfect to the leftie... fifth stump line, seam across catching an edge through to Rossington. This is different gravy from DW 15/3Extras1 (lb 1)TOTAL110/4 (18.3 Overs, RR: 5.91 per 6 ball)Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Stephen Eskinazi, 1.4 ov), 2-15 (Joe Clarke, 3.2 ov), 3-15 (Luke Wells, 3.4 ov), 4-69 (Jonny Bairstow, 13.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB DJ Worrall 4 0 24 3 6.00 11 2 1 0 0 JA Thompson 3 0 10 0 3.33 8 0 0 0 0 LA Dawson 4 0 20 1 5.00 6 1 0 0 0 RS Bopara 3 0 22 0 7.33 3 1 1 0 0 NT Ellis 3.3 0 18 0 5.00 7 0 1 0 0 DJ Mitchell 1 0 15 0 15.00 1 1 1 0 0
Match Details
Toss
London Spirit (Men) , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
20 August 2023 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Welsh Fire (Men) 2, London Spirit (Men) 0
Balls per over
5
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 18 runs, 3 wickets)
- Balls 19: Review by London Spirit (Men) (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - AG Wharf, Batter - MS Wade (Upheld)
- London Spirit (Men): 50 runs in 62 balls, Extras 9
- Strategic Timeout: London Spirit (Men) - 72/5 in 75 balls (RS Bopara 14, MJJ Critchley 19)
- London Spirit (Men): 100 runs in 95 balls, Extras 9
- Innings Break: London Spirit (Men) - 109/9 in 100 balls (RS Bopara 24)
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 27 runs, 3 wickets)
- Welsh Fire (Men): 50 runs in 55 balls, Extras 0
- Strategic Timeout: Welsh Fire (Men) - 59/3 in 60 balls (JM Bairstow 33, TB Abell 15)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 48 balls (JM Bairstow 33, TB Abell 17, Ex 0)
- Welsh Fire (Men): 100 runs in 88 balls, Extras 0
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