The Cricketer look at the main talking points as Oval Invincibles beat Birmingham Phoenix at the Kia Oval
We've all seen the videos of fielders in Saturday or Sunday league cricket converging on a high ball with arms stretched in front of them. They often end in a disaster.
So credit must go to Sophia Smale, who is making quite the name for herself in the competition via her left-arm spin, for keeping her cool.
Georgia Elwiss tried to put the hammer down with 20 balls remaining, but only ended up skying a Ryana MacDonald-Gay delivery into the murky Vauxhall sky.
Smale ran in from third, Lauren Winfield-Hill momentarily backpedalled and Emily Windsor came in from the opposite direction. You could almost hear the noise of social media admins clipping it up.
But Smale remained composed, produced a full-length dive as Windsor ran past her, and took a smart catch.
Eve Jones on her way to a run-a-ball 29 (Alex Davidson/Getty Images)
Dane van Niekerk was controversially dropped from the Invincibles line-up earlier in the competition.
The South African, whose participation was uncertain after she missed the Commonwealth Games with the same ankle injury that ruled her out of the World Cup, returned to the XI for the visit of Phoenix.
Not to give Van Niekerk too much credit for winning the toss, but it was a vital one. The team that identified how to score on this surface would eventually prevail, and Phoenix having first use wasn't much help.
Van Niekerk saw what was required immediately, and after giving Shabnim Ismail two of the opening four sets quickly gave her spinners the responsibility to carry the innings.
It was no coincidence that from time out at the mid-way point - Phoenix was 46 for 2 at the time - Invincibles stated to bowl a lot straighter and took the wickets of dangerwomen Ellyse Perry and Eve Jones in the space of three deliveries.
The game was virtually won by that point, before last season's MVP returned to the crease with an unbeaten 21 in the chase.
Dane van Niekerk returned to captain the Invincibles (Stu Forster/Getty Images)
The unbeaten Phoenix had a dreamy batting line-up of Sophie Devine, Amy Jones, Ellyse Perry and Eve Jones to call upon in the first innings, yet it was galling to watch them struggle to get the ball off the square.
A Kia Oval pitch that is traditionally so good to bat on looked slow and tied to score on, with batters having to force the issue with the Invincibles bowler tight lines, and not offering any width.
Devine's dismissal, trying to slog sweep the ball out of south London, but only giving Sophia Smale a simple caught and bowled chance, typified their difficulties.
Sophie Molineux's dismissal summed up the difficulty Phoenix had, as she shifted across her stumps to try and make an angle and was bowled by Alice Capsey.
Key to the Invincibles approach was an unwillingness to offer any width to their opponents. Instead, they bowled wicket to wicket, delivered 70 balls of spin, and allowed those straighter deliveries to skid on and cause havoc.
Lauren Winfield-Hill helped knock-off the target with ease (Alex Davidson/Getty Images)
Ruled out of The Hundred from a playing perspective, Jos Buttler has gone from the Manchester Originals squad and straight into Sky's coverage.
It meant we got a commentary partnership of England white-ball captains past and present, as Eoin Morgan took the mic alongside Buttler for the start of the Phoenix reply.
It was an all-too brief, but a fascinating discussion between the two on batting, backing yourself and having to temper your ego at the start of the innings.
There have been plenty of efforts from the broadcasters to try and engage youngsters in cricket by explaining aspects of the game, certain skills or match situations using their pundits or avatars.
But sitting a future prospect down and asking them to listen to Morgan and Buttler speak about the intricacies of the game - something we seldom hear them do - would have provided equal value.
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