- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR7.3 straight to deep mid wicket, and Bouchier cannot believe what she has done! Back of a length, slanting into leg stump. Bouchier backs away and smashes it with a whip of the wrists. Plenty right in that stroke, including the timing, but the only (and most pivotal) wrong bit is that she picks out Scholfield on the fence. Simple enough chance to snare, and Bouchier walks back livid with herself! 59/110.5 stumps smashed, and Wyatt-Hodge perishes! There has been a brief slow-down, and that seems to have played a massive part here. Another change-up on a back of a length on middle and off. Wyatt-Hodge advances and then swings across the line rather wildly. Misses the ball by a fair chunk, and sees her middle stump pegged back soon after. Good passage of play for the Invincibles! 81/215.4 gone this time, and Wolvaardt is beside herself! This seems a little fuller than the previous one, and seems to cramp Wolvaardt a touch for room as well as she looks to go inside-out. Does not muster the elevation, nor manages the placement, and she picks out Lanning at extra cover to absolute perfection. A silky cameo, but Wolvaardt will feel she has left runs out there! 123/316.2 Devine has been run out - oh dear! That is a disaster for the Brave! Flighted up outside off. Kemp advances and jabs it straight to extra cover. A bit of hesitation between the batters on whether to go for the run, and Devine eventually decides to go through. Scholfield, though, is sharp in her work, and releases the throw accurately at the stumps, doing so rather promptly too. Winfield-Hill does the rest, and Devine is well short. The Brave losing their way a little here! 124/419.2 goes a mile up, and taken by Franklin! Slower ball on a fullish length just outside off. Kemp moves across, trying to heave that over cow corner and into next week. Loses her shape, though, perhaps due to the lack of pace, and the ball goes straight up. Franklin calls early and does the rest. A nice, little cameo by Kemp, though, and that has taken the Brave past 150! 157/618.2 leg stump flattened, and Kapp is on the board, finally! It has taken longer than it usually does, but this could still be a crucial scalp. Zinged in full on middle and leg. Tryon has an ungainly mow across the line and only connects with the fresh Southampton air. The ball thunders into leg stump, and the Brave are now five down! 150/5Extras14 (lb 1, w 13)TOTAL161/6 (20 Overs, RR: 8.05 per 6 ball)Fall of wickets: 1-59 (Maia Bouchier, 7.3 ov), 2-81 (Danni Wyatt-Hodge, 10.5 ov), 3-123 (Laura Wolvaardt, 15.4 ov), 4-124 (Sophie Devine, 16.2 ov), 5-150 (Chloe Tryon, 18.2 ov), 6-157 (Freya Kemp, 19.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB M Kapp 4 0 25 1 6.25 11 1 0 2 0 SAE Smale 4 0 24 0 6 5 3 0 0 0 DJ Gibb 1 0 10 0 10 1 2 0 0 0 A Capsey 2 0 25 0 12.5 1 2 2 0 0 A Wellington 3 0 25 1 8.33 4 1 2 0 0 PA Franklin 4 0 28 2 7 5 3 0 0 0 NE Farrant 2 0 23 1 11.5 2 4 0 1 0
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR2.5 popped to Adams at mid off, and Winfield-Hill departs too! Length ball outside off and Winfield-Hill, feeling the pinch of the scoring rate, charges, trying to go over the in-field. Gets a good chunk of it, but not the requisite elevation. Adams gets her hands up nice and early, and makes the ball stick. Two in the set for Devine, and she is causing all sorts of problems for the visitors! 13/22.2 cleans her up with an absolute corker! Back of a length delivery, initially angling into middle and off. On pitching, though, it snakes away and that squares up Lanning completely. She has no clue about it and when a ball does that to a batter like Lanning, well, that is all the description it needs. Top of off stump toppled, and that is a huge moment early in the game! 12/16.4 short, wide and Capsey nicks this! She throws her head back, and the Invincibles sink further into trouble! This is there to be hit, and is perhaps a little wider than the previous ball. Capsey probably tries to hit it too hard and in the end, all she does is feather it through to Southby. The Brave tighten their grip on this game further! 28/38.4 a massive slog across the line, and Kapp bites the dust too! Is that the game as well?! Slowed up on a fullish length on middle and off. The ball drops on Kapp late, though, and she does not quite have the length she wants. Swipes at it anyway, and only swats away a few flies. The ball thunders into leg stump, and the Invincibles are staring down the barrel now! 41/56.5 gone first ball! This is banged into the track properly, and the ball, after pitching on middle and off, cuts back in sharply. Scholfield does not know how to avoid its path and tries to upper-cut it. No room to play that stroke, though, and she nicks it through to Southby. Bell on a hat-trick! 28/410.2 stumps rattled again, and Corteen-Coleman is on the board as well! This is tossed up invitingly on a length on middle stump. Gardner has an almighty whoosh across the line and does so without really watching the ball. Another fresh-air shot, and another wicket for the Brave, who look in a hurry to wrap this up! 45/79.3 miscued, and number six goes down! Hung up full and wide outside off. Franklin, like Kapp, looks for the slog-sweep, but ends up making a complete hash of it. Cuts across it too much and the ball spoons up off the top edge for Wolvaardt to gobble up at square leg! 43/611.2 another soft dismissal! Adams throws this up wide outside off, perhaps pre-empting the charge. Farrant has to reach out excessively for it, and that rids her of any power in the stroke. Off the toe-end and Villiers running back from extra cover does the rest! 47/813.5 caught in the ring, and the Invincibles are nine down! Floated up a mile outside off, and Smale, somehow, decides she wants to reach this and go inside-out. The ball is so far from her, though, that she cannot generate any power and clinks it off the bottom part of the bat. Adams tracks it from extra cover, back-pedals a few paces and then grabs it neatly over her left shoulder! 60/916.3 holes out to deep mid wicket, and the Invincibles have been consigned to the heaviest-ever defeat in this competition (in terms of runs)! This is angled in, and also chasing the batter outside leg. Gibb advances but has no real room to free her arms. Shovels it straight to deep mid wicket, and the Brave make it five in five, and they do it with an utterly commanding display! 72/10Extras5 (b 1, lb 1, w 3)TOTAL72 all out (16.3 Overs, RR: 4.33 per 6 ball)Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Meg Lanning, 2.2 ov), 2-13 (Lauren Winfield-Hill, 2.5 ov), 3-28 (Alice Capsey, 6.4 ov), 4-28 (Paige Scholfield, 6.5 ov), 5-41 (Marizanne Kapp, 8.4 ov), 6-43 (Phoebe Franklin, 9.3 ov), 7-45 (Joanne Gardner, 10.2 ov), 8-47 (Tash Farrant, 11.2 ov), 9-60 (Sophia Smale, 13.5 ov), 10-72 (Daisy Gibb, 16.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB LK Bell 4 1 11 2 2.75 15 2 0 0 0 MR Corteen-Coleman 4 0 25 1 6.25 7 4 0 0 0 SFM Devine 3 0 15 2 5 8 0 1 3 0 MK Villiers 4 0 17 3 4.25 9 2 0 0 0 GL Adams 1.3 0 2 2 1.25 6 0 0 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Oval Invincibles (Women) , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
15.00 start, First Session 15.00-16.05, Interval 16.05-16.20, Second Session 16.20-17.25
Match days
18 August 2025 (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Southern Brave (Women) 4, Oval Invincibles (Women) 0
Balls per over
5
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 33 runs, 0 wicket)
- Southern Brave (Women): 50 runs in 33 balls, Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 33 balls (ME Bouchier 33, DN Wyatt 19, Ex 0)
- Strategic Timeout: Southern Brave (Women) - 69/1 in 45 balls (DN Wyatt 26, L Wolvaardt 9)
- Southern Brave (Women): 100 runs in 67 balls, Extras 9
- Southern Brave (Women): 150 runs in 90 balls, Extras 14
- Innings Break: Southern Brave (Women) - 161/6 in 100 balls (GL Adams 2, MK Villiers 3)
- Powerplay 1: Balls 1 - 25 (Mandatory - 17 runs, 2 wickets)
- Balls 8: Review by Oval Invincibles (Women) (Batting), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - S Shanmugam, Batter - L Winfield-Hill (Upheld)
- Oval Invincibles (Women): 50 runs in 64 balls, Extras 5
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