London Spirit 156 for six (Lawrence 43, Rossington 32, McDermott 32) beat Welsh Fire 139 for 9 (Duckett 34, du Plooy 30, Lawrence 4-20, Wood 4-28) by 17 runs
Lawrence made certain that whole was by no means significantly challenged as he decimated Fire’s high order with 4 for 20, and regardless of some explosive hitting from the center order, Fire got here up quick.
After Fire received the toss and selected to discipline, Spirit opener Rossington produced the early pyrotechnics with a flurry of boundaries off Dwaine Pretorius and David Payne. His accomplice Daniel Bell-Drummond was undone by a magnificence from Jake Ball, however Rossington’s brutal putting introduced the hosts to 41 for one on the finish of the powerplay.
Sodhi, Fire’s alternative for Adam Zampa, utilized the brakes, solely freely giving two runs in his first 5 and stress instructed when Rossington slog-swept the New Zealand legspinner straight down Ben Duckett’s throat within the deep. Eoin Morgan went with out scoring however McDermott picked up the place Rossington had left off, smashing his second six over lengthy-on.
McDermott too although fell to Sodhi’s wizardry at which level he had 2 for six in 14 deliveries. But Lawrence prompted a dent in his bowling figures, twice planting him into the Grandstand.
A 3rd six to the lengthy facet adopted as he endangered the cameras past the longer sq. boundary and with Kieron Pollard additionally clearing the ropes in his final look earlier than making his means again to the Caribbean Premier League, Spirit posted a aggressive 156.
Fire struggled for momentum from the off, taking 17 balls to seek out the boundary and the out-of-type Joe Clarke holed out quickly afterwards off the bowling of Thompson making an attempt to go the aerial route.
Thereafter Lawrence returned to centre stage – his supply to captain Josh Cobb prompted him to skew his effort and he was comfortably caught by Bell-Drummond; two balls later, he yorked Bethell with a magnificence and David Miller’s effort was seized by Pollard on the boundary edge.
Pretorius and Duckett briefly raised Fire’s hopes with a partnership of 52 off 28, the latter putting two large sixes, however Lawrence returned to fort Duckett with the final ball of his spell.