Tymal Mills takes hat-trick in crushing Southern Brave win
Southern Brave 91 for 1 (Conway 35*) beat Welsh Fire 87 (Eskinazi 38, Mills 4-13, Garton 3-8) by 9 wickets
Southern Brave romped to a cushty nine-wicket win over Welsh Fire, the bowlers setting the tone with Tymal Mills taking solely the second hat-trick within the Men’s Hundred.
That got here off the ultimate three balls of the Welsh Fire innings as they fell to 87 all out, the sample began with returning England star Jonny Bairstow falling early for a four-ball duck.
Craig Overton took two early wickets for Brave, together with Bairstow, whereas George Garton took 3 for 8 off 15 balls by means of the center of the innings to dam any momentum for the house facet, Mills ending with 4 wickets in all.
Stephen Eskinazi’s 38 was the one vivid spot in a complete simply chased down by Southern Brave. Finn Allen scored a fast 31 earlier than Devon Conway, 35 not out, and Leus du Plooy, 17 not out, noticed them by means of to victory with 41 balls spare.
Welsh Fire couldn’t have gotten off to a a lot worse begin, dropping Ashes hero Bairstow cheaply in his first sport for them since 2021. He tried to hit Overton over mid-off, however was caught off the mistimed shot with out scoring, with Overton getting bounce and motion to additionally dismiss captain Tom Abell, caught behind by Devon Conway.
Joe Clarke additionally went for a duck, caught Conway off the bowling of Garton, and when Mills dismissed Glenn Phillips along with his first ball, giving Conway a 3rd catch, Welsh Fire had been in serious trouble at 34 for 4 after 41 balls.
David Willey’s cameo of 16 was additionally ended by Overton, this time with a sliding catch within the deep off the bowling of Garton.
While everybody else was dropping their wicket, the participant maintaining his on the different finish was opener Stephen Eskinazi who plotted his option to 38 off 34 balls. However, when he was additionally out skying the ball off Garton, Welsh Fire had been operating out of choices.
In the primary sport between these two sides, Brave had been in even deeper bother earlier than Chris Jordan performed a match-winning innings, however Fire had no equal because the decrease order slipped away. It fell to Mills to take a hat-trick with the final three balls of the innings as Fire had been dismissed for 87 – the bottom complete in a accomplished 100-ball innings – and left needing their bowlers to provide one thing exceptional to save lots of the sport.
The participant with the very best likelihood of doing that was Pakistan opening bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi and he delivered an efficient first set that did every little thing apart from choose up a wicket for Fire. Willey’s first two balls then went for 10 as Brave opener Finn Allen began to search out his vary earlier than he was caught on the long-on boundary by Willey off the bowling of David Payne for 31.
Welsh Fire tried seven bowlers, however there was little stress on Conway and du Plooy as they knocked off the successful runs with nice ease.