Fire choke in chase as Spirit clinch consolation win
Needing 17 off 15, Fire manage only 10 to miss out on fifth win of season
Needing 17 off 15, Fire manage only 10 to miss out on fifth win of season
Scorer: Chandan Duorah | Commentator: Matt Roller
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!"
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.
The game turns. 8 off 2.
Chris Woakes, what have you got for us?
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.
Willey. 15 off 5 needed. How does Jansen play this?
Needing 17 off 15, Fire manage only 10 to miss out on fifth win of season