Fire pick up first win and eliminate Phoenix

The Hundred women's competition, Edgbaston

Welsh Fire 150-3 (100 balls): Dunkley 53 (43), Jonassen 44 (17); Schutt 2-11

Birmingham Phoenix 114-9 (100 balls): Perry 55 (43); Ismail 3-16

Fire won by 36 runs

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Welsh Fire ended Birmingham Phoenix's slim hopes of reaching The Hundred women's knockout stages and picked up their first triumph of nan play pinch a 36-run triumph astatine Edgbaston.

After losing 4 of their opening 5 matches, Phoenix needed to triumph their 3 remaining games and person a number of different results spell their measurement to span nan 12-point spread to nan apical 3 but fell short successful their pursuit of 151, contempt a half-century from skipper Ellyse Perry.

Phoenix were reduced to 5-2 aft six deliveries, Shabnim Ismail, who claimed 3-16 overall, bowling Emma Lamb and trapping Marie Kelly lbw.

A 56-run guidelines betwixt Perry and Georgia Voll concisely kept nan hosts successful nan title but 2 wickets successful 2 balls swung momentum backmost successful Welsh Fire's favour and Phoenix's nonaccomplishment to build immoderate different meaningful partnerships prevented them from mounting a superior chase.

Perry, who scored 55 disconnected 43 balls, was yet dismissed by Ismail successful nan penultimate set, while Jess Jonassen picked up 3-24.

Sophia Dunkley scored 53 runs disconnected 43 balls and shared a 71-run second-wicket guidelines pinch Hayley Matthews to laic nan foundations for already-eliminated Fire.

All-rounder Jonassen past smashed 44 runs disconnected 17 balls, including 3 fours and 4 sixes, to thief Fire station 150-3 - their highest people of nan season.

Runs person not flowed for Welsh Fire this season. Prior to this match, past year's finalists had only passed 120 erstwhile successful 5 innings, doubly being dismissed for nether 100, and top-order batters Matthews and Beaumont had scored conscionable 65 and 59 runs, respectively.

The 1 agleam spark for Fire has been Dunkley, who has now passed 30 successful 4 of her six innings.

After taking 7 balls to scope two, nan opener burst into life against Perry, dispatching nan Phoenix skipper for 3 boundaries successful 4 deliveries and later scoring nan only six of her innings against nan Australia all-rounder.

After she was bowled by Hannah Baker, Phoenix should person had 2 wickets successful 2 balls but Amy Jones missed a important opportunity to stump Jonassen for a duck.

Heading into nan last 10 deliveries pinch her broadside 122-2, Jonassen smashed Baker for 4 consecutive sixes earlier being caught successful nan heavy by Marie Kelly arsenic she attempted to bring up her 50 pinch different boundary.

But nan harm was done and her precocious blitz took nan crippled distant from Phoenix.

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