The Hundred ladies’s competitors, Edgbaston
Welsh Fireplace 144-3 (100 balls): Voll 78 (55); Capsey 2-24
Birmingham Phoenix 145-3 (99 balls): Perry 68 (46), Capsey 51 (29); Voll 1-9
Birmingham Phoenix gained by seven wickets
Ellyse Perry and Alice Capsey starred as Birmingham Phoenix picked up their first win of the ladies’s Hundred with a nail-biting seven-wicket victory over Welsh Fireplace.
Chasing 145 in entrance of minority shareholder and England midfielder Jude Bellingham at Edgbaston, Capsey, who had earlier picked up two wickets, hit 51 (29) and Perry an unbeaten 68 (46) to assist Phoenix house with one ball to spare.
Opener Davina Perrin fell simply 5 balls into Phoenix’s chase whereas Tammy Beaumont could not capitalise on being dropped on 10, selecting out Heather Graham for 14, earlier than Capsey and Perry got here collectively for a match-changing 86-run third-wicket stand.
Capsey’s dismissal, caught cheaply at deep mid-wicket by Graham off the 82nd supply, almost proved the turning level, with Phoenix faltering from 24 runs required from 19 balls to needing 12 runs off the ultimate set.
However captain Perry held her nerve, buying and selling singles with Annerie Dercksen earlier than dispatching Graham for a six and a 4 to see her facet over the road.
The victory – solely their third in 12 matches for the reason that starting of the 2025 version – strikes Phoenix off the foot of the desk and into fifth place after 4 matches. Welsh Fireplace slip all the way down to seventh, with one win and three defeats.
Earlier, the event’s main run-scorer Georgia Voll struck a half-century for Fireplace in opposition to her former facet, hitting 9 fours and two sixes as she top-scored with 78 (55).
The Australian placed on 58 for the primary wicket with Ella McCaughan and an extra 35 with Sophie Devine, who hit a flurry of late boundaries in her unbeaten 35 (19), however Fireplace had been left to rue their torpid powerplay, posting a run-a-ball 25-0.
Capsey collected 2-24 however Lauren Filer was the choose of the bowlers, conceding simply 15 runs from her 20 deliveries.
