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Best performances - Batsmen

JM Cox
JM Cox
44(28) 3x4 - 2x6
Control %82%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 8 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
5 7 1 5 6 5 7 8
JM Bairstow
JM Bairstow
34(19) 2x4 - 3x6
Control %68%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 12 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
3 4 13 0 4 0 0 10

Best performances - Bowlers

DJ Willey
DJ Willey
O4
M0
R20
W3
Eco5
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
M Jansen
M Jansen
O4
M0
R16
W2
Eco4
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Matt Roller

END OF OVER:
20 | 8 Runs 2 Wkts | WF-M: 125/7 (7 runs required, RR: 6.25)

  • Chris Woakes7 (2b)
  • David Willey3.5-0-20-3
  • Adam Milne3.5-0-23-2

5.57pm: That's your lot from sunny Cardiff, but jump over to our coverage of the game at Edgbaston which starts in half an hour's time.

Spirit finish seventh, just behind the Brave on Net Run Rate. Fire will finish fifth unless MI London get absolutely hammered tonight by the Phoenix. The only real question is whether MI London can win by a big enough margin to leapfrog Sunrisers Leeds and sneak into the eliminator, and you can follow that game here.

David Willey is named player of the match. "We talked about using the pitch, there was still enough there when you smacked the pitch hard. Bit of a stinker, the one I bowled to Woakesy! Nice catch on the boundary, good for us to get across the line. [Season?] With it being such a short competition, every game is important. If we reflect on the first couple of games, we were 5% which really hurt us... A couple of small bits here and there and we'd have been a lot higher."

5.51pm: Fire needed 20 off 18, then 17 off 15, and somehow fluffed their lines. Overton, Milne and Willey's death bowling got them over the line, but Cox and Ravindra will wonder how they managed to make a mess of that situation. It's all academic in any case, with both of these sides already eliminated, but Spirit pinch their third win of the season and Fire end up with as many wins as losses.

Matt: "Why do dead rubbers so often produce the closest matches?"

Shadow-Shell: "Just a single run of 18th and 19th sets each is beyond crazy work!"

Craig: "Wow! We've just witnessed the biggest choke in Mens Hundred History!"

19.5
W
Willey to Jansen, OUT, out of the screws... but Overton takes the catch on the deep midwicket boundary! Sounded like gunshot off the bat as Willey went into the pitch, but the square boundary is vast at Sophia Gardens, and Jansen was hitting towards the longer side. Overton held his nerve on the rope, holding onto the catch and keeping his composure to avoid stepping on the rope. Spirit end the season with a win, and Fire have messed this up royally!

M Jansen c Overton b Willey 1 (7m 4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 25

7 off 1. No Super Overs at this stage of the tournament, so Jansen needs to hit this for six to split the points.

19.4
1
Willey to Woakes, 1 run, width outside off, flashes hard on the cut... only for a single! Spirit can't lose, as long as this is a legal delivery

The game turns. 8 off 2.

19.3
6
Willey to Woakes, SIX, carved over long-off for six, into the Sky pod! The Wizard produces some magic. Willey misses his yorker, finds the slot, and disappears over the off side as Woakes gives himself some room

Chris Woakes, what have you got for us?

19.2
W
Willey to Ravindra, OUT, straight up, Willey settles under it! This is the mother of all chokes! Fire needed 17 off 15 balls, now they need 14 off 3. Hard length, Ravindra throws the bat - quite literally, loses his grip - and gets plenty of height but no length

R Ravindra c & b Willey 9 (22m 10b 1x4 0x6) SR: 90

14 off 4. Rachin needs to find the boundary at least once, probably twice.

19.1
1
Willey to Jansen, 1 run, around the wicket, into the pitch. Mistimed plink down to Coles, running in from long-on

Willey. 15 off 5 needed. How does Jansen play this?

END OF OVER:
19 | 1 Run 2 Wkts | WF-M: 117/5 (15 runs required from 5 balls, RR: 6.15, RRR: 15.00)

  • Marco Jansen0 (2b)
  • Rachin Ravindra9 (9b)
  • Adam Milne3.5-0-23-2
  • Jamie Overton3.5-0-21-0
18.5
0
Milne to Jansen, no run, huge air-swipe! 87mph, back of a length, Jansen can't lay bat on ball! This is one hell of a choke. Great set from Milne

Fire 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st1MW ShortPD Salt
2nd42JE RootPD Salt
3rd47JE RootJM Cox
4th27R RavindraJM Cox
5th0T Kohler-CadmoreR Ravindra
6th1M JansenR Ravindra
7th7CR WoakesM Jansen