full and wide on sixth stump, driven through cover and pierces the gap to the rope. London Spirit pick up their first points of the competition!
Fire vs Spirit, 16th Match at London, Women's Hundred, Aug 24 2022 - Match Result
Spirit won by 8 wickets (with 14 balls remaining)
5.32 pm Mooney's unbeaten knock makes the home fans happy at Lord's. London Spirit are still in the hunt for a playoff spot after today's win. Meanwhile, Welsh Fire look like the chalk to end with the wooden spoon as they remain winless.
Beth Mooney is the Match Hero: "It was really nice being out here at Lord's. I haven't played out here before and it was nice to have the crowd support for our first home game. Our bowlers did an outstanding job. We reaped the rewards and thankfully the batters didn't have too many to chase. [Gibson] is an amazing player. She really strikes the ball cleanly. She was given a license and it was good to see her take her chance."
That's it for today's coverage of the Women's Hundred match. On behalf of Sruthi Ravindranath, I'm Peter Della Penna. Flip over to the feed of the men's match between London Spirit and Welsh Fire to catch the start of our coverage for that match with Matt Roller getting things underway.
good length ball on middle, backs away to punch straight to extra cover.
good length ball on the legs, flicks this to midwicket.
good length ball pushed through the off side for one.
dropped by Sutherland going back from mid-on! Flighted full on off stump, skies a heave to mid-on who backpedals and spills this chance. Sutherland got her body in a tangle trying to decide whether to backpedal or turn around and run all the way. She goes to turn around at the end but it goes through her fingertips trying to take an over the shoulder catch seven yards in from the rope.
fullish length ball on fourth stump, heaves this flat over wide mid-on and beats the fielder to the rope.
full on the stumps, driven past the diving effort of the fielder on the ring at mid-off and goes to the rope.
slower ball short on the stumps, pulled to deep backward square for one.
short on the stumps again, another swat that goes short of Green and is stopped at midwicket.
short on the stumps, pulls this to midwicket and it short hops Green diving right.
back of a length outside off, stabs this behind point for one.
good length ball on sixth stump, skids off a thick edge poked by Mooney trying to run this fine, perhaps not this fine, and goes to the third man rope to bring up a 34-ball half-century.
full outside off, driven past Beaumont's diving effort at extra cover.
full on the legs, jammed out down the ground.
flighted full on fifth stump, Luff is beaten in flight and skies a drive over extra cover. Beaumont settles under this inside the ring for a simple catch.
full on the legs, whipped past square leg and George's diving effort is in vain as it goes past her to the rope. She was leaning with all her body momentum to the left and the ball went to the right of her.
back of a length on sixth stump, Mooney shuffles across her stumps again and punches this square in front of point, times this well enough to beat the sweeper too and thuds into the rope.
full and wide outside off, too wide to play at, wide called.
full on off stump, jammed out back to the bowler.
full and wide, stabs this out to backward point on the ring.
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Lord's, London | |
Toss | Welsh Fire (Women), elected to bat first |
Series | |
Season | 2022 |
Player Of The Match | |
Match days | 24 August 2022 - day (100-ball match) |
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Match Referee | |
Points | London Spirit (Women) 2, Welsh Fire (Women) 0 |