- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.1 Mandhana goes for a first-ball duck! Davies is pumped. Full length, nipping away with some extra bounce, leaving Mandhana in the channel outside off. She wafts at the ball from the crease and ends up nicking behind 0/16.5 Beaumont runs back from extra-cover and snaffles this catch! She's pumped. On an in-between length and hides it away from the reach of Wyatt. Drifts further away outside off. She slices it high in the air and holes out 41/32.1 hip-high short ball on middle, caught right at the edge of the midwicket boundary. Smart catch by Franklin. Just short of a good length and on middle, she picks it up and swats it away. Franklin holds onto his overhead catch for WF. Great awareness in the outfield 13/210.4 Oooh, what have you done Adams? She has just directed the ball back onto her own stumps. Having shuffled across off, she scoops this slider back onto her own stumps. SB slide deeper at Cardiff 63/59.2 Kemp user her feet once again, this time she picks out long-off. Tossed up invitingly on off or just a shade outside off, Kemp is beaten in fight, she slices it to the outfielder 54/412.2 Matthews knocks over Tryon! Tossed up and turning in beautifully to hit the top of middle. Tryon searches for the sweep over square leg but does not lay bat on ball. Terrific delivery from Matthews 69/615.3 Davies holds onto a return catch! Back of a length and on off, Dattani aims to hack it over the leg side, but can only splice it back to the bowler who takes it in her followthrough 80/717.1 floated up on off, caught at mid-off! Matthews can do no wrong. Third wicket for her this afternoon. Backs away and slices it away to the right of mid-off 83/916.2 on a length and outside off, forced to mid-off and there's a little mix-up between the wickets. Matthews coolly gathers the ball and breaks the bails. Cheatle has to go 82/818.1 SB have been skittled for 84! Pushed through at the top of off, she stays leg-side of the ball and is beaten on the outside edge. Corteen-Coleman misses but Jonassen hits her target 84/10Extras8 (lb 2, w 6)TOTAL84 all out (18.1 Overs, RR: 4.61 per 6 ball)Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Smriti Mandhana, 0.1 ov), 2-13 (Maia Bouchier, 2.1 ov), 3-41 (Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 6.5 ov), 4-54 (Freya Kemp, 9.2 ov), 5-63 (Georgia Adams, 10.4 ov), 6-69 (Chloe Tryon, 12.2 ov), 7-80 (Naomi Dattani, 15.3 ov), 8-82 (Lauren Cheatle, 16.2 ov), 9-83 (Rhianna Southby, 17.1 ov), 10-84 (Tilly Corteen-Coleman, 18.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB FR Davies 3 0 12 2 4.00 9 2 0 0 0 JL Jonassen 3.1 0 14 2 4.37 9 2 0 0 0 BA Langston 2 0 8 1 4.00 4 0 0 2 0 GA Elwiss 2 0 10 0 5.00 6 1 0 1 0 GK Davis 4 0 22 1 5.50 8 3 0 0 0 HK Matthews 4 0 16 3 4.00 12 1 0 2 0
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR13.3 bowled her! The ball shapes back in sharply to hit the leg stump! The bowling change works for Brave. To be fair to Beaumont, the ball also kept slightly low there. Cheatle bowled on a length on off, and the ball seamed in nicely, with Beaumont looking to slash but missing 59/30.5 bowled her! Accurate line and length, and also the perfect bit of movement there. On the shorter side of a length on middle and off, as Cheatle angles it across the right-hander. But then the ball gets good bounce and also straightens in to hit the top of middle, with Dunkley almost getting cramped 5/17.2 snapped at midwicket! There is a little cry from one of the Brave players, with Adams plucking this ball with her right hand up diagonally. Matthews advanced down the pitch, and Coleman went full and straight. Matthews played across the line at it, and ended up chipping it to the only close-in fielder on the leg side 28/2Extras20 (lb 11, w 9)TOTAL88/3 (18 Overs, RR: 4.88 per 6 ball)Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Sophia Dunkley, 0.5 ov), 2-28 (Hayley Matthews, 7.2 ov), 3-59 (Tammy Beaumont, 13.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB L Cheatle 4 2 8 2 2.00 15 1 0 0 0 LK Bell 3 0 17 0 5.66 5 2 0 1 0 MR Corteen-Coleman 4 0 21 1 5.25 10 2 0 1 0 CL Tryon 3 0 14 0 4.66 9 2 0 2 0 GL Adams 4 0 17 0 4.25 10 2 0 1 0
Match Details
Toss
Welsh Fire (Women) , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
05 August 2024 (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Welsh Fire (Women) 2, Southern Brave (Women) 0
Balls per over
5
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 27 runs, 2 wickets)
- Southern Brave (Women): 50 runs in 43 balls, Extras 5
- Innings Break: Southern Brave (Women) - 84/10 in 91 balls (LK Bell 1)
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 23 runs, 1 wicket)
- Balls 7: Review by Welsh Fire (Women) (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - T Lungley, Batter - HK Matthews (Upheld)
- Balls 43: Review by Southern Brave (Women) (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - T Lungley, Batter - SJ Bryce (Struck down)
- Welsh Fire (Women): 50 runs in 60 balls, Extras 14
- Strategic Timeout: Welsh Fire (Women) - 50/2 in 60 balls (TT Beaumont 28, SJ Bryce 7)
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