MO vs SB, review | Mills and Overton shine as Brave win tight game at Old Trafford

While Salt led from the front for the Originals at the top, the same could not be said about Brave’s captain James Vince, as he was dismissed cheaply by a back-of-a-length inswinger by Sonny Baker, which crashed into his stumps. The struggles continued as the Brave were restricted to 29/1 in the power play. After a disappointing start, Leus du Plooy and Jason Roy tried to steady the innings in the middle, but as soon as the partnership started to look dangerous, du Plooy’s furniture was disturbed by a well-disguised back-of-length slower ball by Scott Currie. However, Roy got the game back in the balance with a 16-run over off James Anderson with the score at 65/2 at the end of 50 balls. Despite the expensive over by the legendary pacer, the Originals continued to dominate the second half of the chase as Noor Ahmad came into the attack to dismiss James Coles, who was unable to read the wrong-un and ended up being stumped as he failed to get his back foot down in time before Buttler whipped the bails off. Brave started to lose wickets at regular intervals as Currie returned for another over to dismiss Laurie Evans, and Noor came back for his final over to get the wicket of Hilton Cartwright, who dragged the ball onto his stumps. The Southern Franchise was suddenly in a precarious position at the end of 75 balls with the score at 91/5, and needing 41 off the last 25 deliveries. The situation went from bad to worse as Brave lost their set batter in Roy as he chopped the ball onto his stumps by trying to steer a delivery from Baker towards the third man region. The game seemed to be going the Originals' way as Currie returned with a double-wicket over to dismiss Michael Bracewell and Chris Jordan to complete his four-fer. The visitors needed 20 runs off the last 10 deliveries with only two wickets in hand. However, there was another game-changing over in the match as Overton smashed Baker for three consecutive boundaries. The pacer conceded 16 runs in his final over as the equation came down to four runs off the last five balls. It was Lewis Gregory who was entrusted with the last over, and he managed to keep the hopes alive with the wicket of Mills in the third delivery. Unfortunately, all it took was a flashy drive by Reece Topley, who managed to find the boundary rope to finish the chase with a ball and a wicket to spare.

Tymal Mills was declared the Player of the Match for his impressive spell of 3/22 in 20 balls, which included big scalps of Salt, Buttler, and Klaasen.