London Spirit gained The Hundred for the primary time after an exciting four-wicket victory over Welsh Fireplace within the closing at Lord’s.
Set 116 to win, it got here all the way down to 4 wanted from the final three balls earlier than Deepti Sharma lofted Hayley Matthews over long-on for six.
It may all have been so completely different, although, because the ball burst by way of the fingers of Fireplace bowler Shabnim Ismail and over the rope.
Ismail had appeared like being the match-winner for Fireplace, taking 3-24 as she bowled Meg Lanning, Heather Knight and Danielle Gibson to maintain her facet in competition.
Nonetheless, there was simply an excessive amount of on Deepti’s decisive strike as Spirit claimed the trophy on their house floor.
Knight’s workforce had been on high on the midway stage after a wonderful bowling show, led by England spinners Sarah Glenn and Charlie Dean, restricted Fireplace to 115-8 regardless of a fantastic half-century from Australia all-rounder Jess Jonassen.
The stress of the chase started to inform on Spirit till Gibson got here in and struck 5 fours from her first six balls to present her facet the momentum.
However when she was bowled by Ismail and opener Georgia Redmayne was trapped lbw by Freya Davies, the sport duly went to the wire and Deepti was readily available to ship the telling blow with two balls to spare.
