Isabelle Duncan
BBC Test Match Special

A really good catch from Southby and that required rate is edging upwards.

You feel the tables are turning in Hampshire’s favour a bit, with those two big guns back in the hutch.

There’ll be an eye on the scoreboard as far as the Blaze are concerned, looking at it with a little bit of anxiety. They're looking a bit twitchy.

Good running sees a couple of singles and a leg bye to finish the over.

Corrh this is getting much closer than many felt it would, even with Hampshire missing those chances.

48 needed off the last seven!

Isabelle Duncan
BBC Test Match Special

"Georgia Adams is racking her brains – how do I juggle my bowlers, how do we win this match?"

Poppy Tulloch's seventh over goes for just three singles.

Brilliant fielding saving a couple in there too as Hampshire suddenly look a bit more up and about, every ball an event now.

Hampshire could have been home and hosed now had they taken those chances, but as it is they are still well in the fight, the Blaze have their Irish international at the crease at five now.

Georgia Adams completes her penultimate, again not going for a boundary, four singles off it.

Poppy Tulloch is pulled for four first ball of her sixth over then similarly so third ball too, the latter a shorter, worse ball than the first which was not that bad a ball, more a good shot.

As Tammy Beaumont struggles, Georgia Elwiss has taken over the past few overs accelerating nicely with a quadruple of recent boundaries.

Beaumont happy to take any ego out of it and tick the strike back over to her partner.

Dropped catchpublished at 38 overs

38 overs

Blaze 183-2 (target 252) v Hampshire

Another drop!

Probably the hardest of the three plus the stumping in the 13 overs since drinks mind.

Daisy Gibbs flying through the air one-handed but it does not stick at short midwicket.

Big appeal later in the over not given, Rhianna Southby potentially annoying the umpires with an overly extended appeal there.

50 for Elwisspublished at 37 overs

37 overs

Blaze 182-2 (target 252) v Hampshire

Bex Tyson continues with her left-arm spin.

A short wide one outside off is well punched off the back foot by Georgia Elwiss for four through extra cover.

Next ball Tyson overcorrects her line and Elwiss pulls for four, only just past the deep square leg fielder who maybe could have done better.

Elwiss haunting her old side yet again (she was a Southern Viper), 60 balls with only four boundaries, two coming in the latest over, shows her great rotation skills.

Kevan James
BBC Radio Solent commentator

Quite often balls fall short of the fielders, just out of their grasp – that’s why you get the feeling it’s the Blaze’s day.

But the key is that Beaumont is still there.

AJ Wellington is hit for four by Georgia Elwiss who brings out the broom again to play the spin.

Tammy Beaumont is nearly dropped again as she giggles, it did drop short of backward point, but not far short, Wello spinning it onto her outside edge.

Georgia Adams leaves two overs up her sleeve, only going for 34 so far wicketless.

Bex Tyson bowls her seventh having gone for 24 earlier.

All Blaze's bowlers bar Naomi Dattani have economy rates between four and five so far.

A third chance slips out of Hampshire's grasp in the last 10 overs now as Rhianna Southby misses a stumping off the penultimate ball.

Hampshire bowling well without reward, if they had fielded as they would expect to, they could be right in this game with Blaze in trouble.

Tammy Beaumont may be seen buying lottery tickets this evening!

Dropped catchpublished at 34 overs

34 overs

Blaze 159-2 (target 252) v Hampshire

AJ Wellington, as with most leggies, is looking more threatening to take wickets than the offie, but risks conceding more runs.

Maia Bouchier the latest with a dropped catch, but this is a much harder one than that dropped by her fellow England teammate Freya Kemp.

Not ideal when your two England stars set the standard with two drops though, Bouchier has a good pair of hands, but did not quite get the footwork right and it slips out of the right mit jumping up to her right at mid on.

Georgia Adams gives herself an eighth and only goes for three.

This worn pitch of course taking more spin the more the surface is used.

Blaze opted to bat first on winning the toss, maybe based upon risk of rain this afternoon rather than the thought of second innings increased spin.

AJ Wellington back into the attack, setting her field exactly how she wants it as she does - a captain's dream, especially when said captain has enough to think about bowling at the other end and processing that drop.

Hampshire seeing this as a key passage to bring their best bowler back on.

'Wello' is reverse-swept for two by Georgia Elwiss, then rags one past her outside edge, some response.

Tammy Beaumont then sees one rag from outside leg stump and into wicketkeeper Rhianna Southby's grill - cue delay for concussion check.

Beaumont sweeps the final ball well for four.

Dave Bracegirdle
BBC Radio Nottingham commentator

It’s never easy in the deep, throwing yourself forward and just trying to scoop it up.

There’s been one or two Beaumont has hit into the air and they’ve landed just short of fielders – she would say it’s placement or timing!

Elwiss has been the perfect foil for Beaumont.

Dropped catchpublished at 31 overs

31 overs

Blaze 146-2 (target 252) v Hampshire

Oh no, not good from Freya Kemp.

Just does not pick it up early enough or run in and attack it.

Disappointing for Hampshire particularly from your young athletic international allrounder.

Tammy Beaumont gets a big life there on 60 whilst Kemp examines her finger nail.

Georgia Adams meanwhile swallows her anger having done brilliantly to keep bowling well building pressure for a long spell leading up to that key moment.

It was this period in the first innings where ball started to dominate bat and a decent total slipped away from Hampshire.

Well maybe they can do similarly and make their below-par total seem further away from the Blaze than Beaumont and co have made it look so far in the second dig.

Hampshire were 152-2 at this stage, before their spectacular collapse.

110 needed off a 4.21 T20 start with eight wickets to play with, would be one way of looking at it now!