London Spirit 147 for six (Bell-Drummond 46, Maxwell 34, Hogan 2-31) beat Southern Brave 138 for 7 (Whiteley 52, Davies 36, Thompson 2-32) by 9 runs
London Spirit’s Hampshire Hawks bowling assault used their Ageas Bowl insider information to finish Southern Brave’s dwelling domination.
Spirit are three from three within the event, having taken dwelling the picket spoon final yr, whereas holders Brave misplaced their 100 per cent document on the Ageas Bowl.
Brave’s begin bought worse when Quinton de Kock and Alex Davies met in the midst of the pitch with the stumps damaged for a slipshod run out to depart the hosts 4 for two.
Davies bought the scoreboard transferring upwards with a 4-six combo off Dawson, with Marcus Stoinis putting by way of the covers and straight earlier than working previous spinner Dawson to be stumped.
Davies departed for 36 when Crane tempted him to slog to lengthy on, whereas Wheal bought Tim David skewing to additional cowl.
Whiteley, one other Hampshire participant, had quietly biffed his method to a 32-ball 50, introduced up with a superbly timed clip to the leg aspect however was bowled by Thompson’s subsequent ball.
Brave wanted 27 runs off the final 10-ball finish. But regardless of James Fuller pulling that all the way down to 12 off three, Thompson had him slicing to deep level as Spirit’s 12-month turnaround continued.
Earlier, Spirit selected to bat and had been indebted to Maxwell, Bell-Drummond and Kieron Pollard’s contributions to get them as much as 147, eight runs shy of their feminine group-mates’ shedding complete earlier within the day.
Maxwell and Bell-Drummond had been joined on the crease after Adam Rossington had lifted Michael Hogan to mid-off and Zak Crawley swung to deep sq. leg to depart Spirit 29 for two.
The duo’s 39 collectively bought rolling with a pair of Maxwell fours, the primary a simple drive by way of the covers earlier than opening up the offside once more two balls later. He then used his higher physique power to dispatch Jacob Lintott over deep midwicket.
The Australian pumped three extra boundaries earlier than mullering straight at mid-off, after which Eoin Morgan run out backing up on the non-striker’s finish.
Bell-Drummond, now in a 53-run partnership with Pollard, had struggled to get going with 18 off 21 balls, and been dropped twice, albeit each very troublesome possibilities.
The sluggish begin peaked with 5 fours and a towering six over lengthy-on earlier than he fell for 46 off 33 balls when he was run out. In the final 13 deliveries, Thompson was yorked by Hogan with 24 runs coming.