The Hundred 2023: Grace Harris sets up London Spirit victory over winless Birmingham Phoenix

Grace Harris powered London Spirit to a winning full earlier bottommost broadside Birmingham Phoenix collapsed to extremity their play without a win.

Phoenix made a speedy commencement to their reply but crumbled from 31-1 to 99 each retired aft 76 balls to suffer by 73 runs.

Leg-spinner Amelia Kerr took 4-13 and was the prime of the Spirit bowlers.

Spirit's 2nd triumph of the tourney lifts them supra Manchester Originals into sixth connected nett run-rate.

Phoenix decorativeness 5 points adrift, with their lone constituent of the run coming from a lucifer abandoned due to the fact that of rain.

What other bash you request to know?

• Spirit's people is the 2nd highest by a women's squad successful The Hundred aft Welsh Fire made 181-3 against Trent Rockets earlier this year.
• This is the heaviest decision successful presumption of runs successful the past of the women's competition.
• Some wayward Phoenix bowling allowed Spirit to get disconnected to a flying start. Harris deed the archetypal shot of the innings for 4 and the visitors were 50-1 astatine the extremity of the powerplay.
• In 5 erstwhile innings for Spirit this year, Harris' apical people was 10.
• Issy Wong struggled connected her instrumentality to the Phoenix XI. The England accelerated bowler's lone five-ball acceptable went for 16 runs.
• Sterre Kallis scored 28 from 16 balls to springiness Phoenix anticipation aboriginal successful the pursuit but erstwhile she was trapped lbw by Sarah Glenn, the innings rapidly unravelled.

'I loved that transportation arsenic a batter' - what they said

Match Hero, London Spirit's Harris: "It's decidedly 1 of my amended days successful England. I'm precise blessed to contribute. I loved that transportation arsenic a batter.

"We wanted to decorativeness connected a affirmative and play freely. I person battled with that mentality truthful I was precise pleased to spell retired and bat successful my ain style. I tin overthink sometimes, particularly erstwhile I've been moving astir successful the order.

"Both personally and arsenic a team, it's bully to decorativeness connected a high."

London Spirit skipper Charlie Dean connected Sky Sports: "Massively important for america to decorativeness connected a high. We've spoken a batch astir however we privation to play truthful it was precise peculiar to enactment successful a implicit show finally.

"Grace Harris and Dani Gibson is simply a large operation astatine the top. They haven't fired astatine their precise champion for america but it was large to spot them spell retired and springiness america that level and let america to station specified a large total."