In The Hundred men’s competition at the Ageas Bowl, Southern Brave won by four wickets over struggling Birmingham Phoenix.

In their only win from six games, Phoenix made 119-8 on a tricky pitch, with Rehan Ahmed and Tymal Mills each taking three wickets.

As the chase progressed, Brave remained well on top until they lost two wickets with one run to go.

Phoenix’s Dan Mousley bowled a wide to hand the Brave victory.

In a dominant bowling performance from the Brave, Ahmed took 3-22 and Mills took 3-20.

Afterwards, Garton top-scored for Phoenix with a counterattacking 28 from 18 balls, while Moeen Ali took 1-17.

Southern Brave now sit second in the table, while Phoenix remain at the bottom but are still mathematically in the running.

I was delighted to get that first wicket of Jamie Smith. He is such a good player, so I was glad to get one sliding under his bat.”

There are times when you put more pressure on yourself when you know you have a spinning wicket. However, I tried to relax because I knew the wicket would help me.”

“It was one of those games where the wicket wasn’t ideal, but we adapted.” said Birmingham Phoenix captain Moeen Ali.

“It would’ve been nice to get another ten or fifteen runs. All the games have been close, and all the teams are strong now.”

Southern Brave’s Tymal Mills, Match Hero: “That went closer than we would have liked, but I was confident that eventually we would win.

In the first year, we started slowly, but we won the whole thing in the end.”