Welsh Fireplace ended Birmingham Phoenix’s slim hopes of reaching The Hundred ladies’s knockout levels and picked up their first win of the season with a 36-run triumph at Edgbaston.
After dropping 4 of their opening 5 matches, Phoenix wanted to win their three remaining video games and have numerous different outcomes go their option to bridge the 12-point hole to the highest three however fell brief of their chase of 151, regardless of a half-century from captain Ellyse Perry.
Phoenix had been diminished to 5-2 after six deliveries, with Shabnim Ismail, who claimed 3-16 total, bowling Emma Lamb and trapping Marie Kelly lbw.
A 56-run stand between Perry and Georgia Voll briefly saved the hosts within the contest, however two wickets in two balls swung momentum again in Welsh Fireplace’s favour and Phoenix’s failure to construct another significant partnerships prevented them from mounting a critical chase.
Perry, who scored 55 off 43 balls, was finally dismissed by Ismail within the penultimate set, whereas Jess Jonassen picked up 3-24.
Sophia Dunkley scored 53 runs off 43 balls and shared a 71-run second-wicket stand with Hayley Matthews to put the foundations for already-eliminated Fireplace.
All-rounder Jonassen then smashed 44 runs off 17 balls, together with three fours and 4 sixes, to assist Fireplace put up 150-3 – their highest rating of the season.
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