Match Details
This is it from the live coverage of this game with Birmingham Phoenix winning it by 4 runs. That’s it for today from myself Nikhil Kalla alongside my co-commentators Arya with our scorer/analyst Chandan Kr Singh. See you soon again with more games to follow till then stay safe.
Moeen Ali ( Captain Birmingham Phoenix ): "These are the kind of games that you want to win. The pressure was on them as the target was not big enough and that in a way helped us. Tahir is a brilliant bowler but the pacers were outstanding today and the track seemed to help the pacers so we bowled more of them. Our bowlers bowled really well. It gives opportunities to our other bowlers as we have some players out with injuries. I feel this game in particular is good for the team's confidence. I am really happy with the team's performance."
NIKHIL: So, we are done here with Birmingham Phoenix winning the game as they defeat Welsh Fire by 4 runs, Welsh have failed to chase down the target of 130 runs.
Birmingham Phoenix started Sluggishly as they lost their top order cheaply. After 33 deliveries they were stationed motionlessly at 35 for the loss of 4 wickets. Smeed, Moeen, Liam, and Benjamin all perished in quick succession. It was Wade and Hammond who build up a good partnership of 52 runs that helped the team to reach a total of 130 runs. Wade scored 38 runs while Howell added a good cameo of 21 runs as he stayed till the end.
For Welsh Fire, Payne and Scrimshaw took a couple of wickets while, Zampa, Ball, and Cobb took a wicket each.
In reply to the target set by the Phoenix, Welsh started cautiously losing a couple of wickets in the powerplay as they managed to bag 40 runs.
Banton
and Hain played well to post a total of 28 runs together after losing Clarke in
the first set of 5 to Kane. Hain played a good hand of 23 runs before getting out. Once the Phoenix got rid of Banton on 44 there was all downhill for the Welsh from that point.
For
Phoenix, Kane Richardson and Tom Helm took a couple of wickets each and Howell took a wicket too. Welsh had this game in their grasp till the 85th delivery but the last 15 deliveries changed this game completely.