Oval Invincibles, champions in 2021 and 2022, are beaten on their home turf after wickets for Charlie Dean and Sarah Glenn are backed up by an unbeaten 53 for Georgia Redmayne
Kia Oval: Oval Invincibles 113-9, London Spirit 116-2 - London Spirit won by eight wickets
London Spirit secured a place in The Hundred Final against Welsh Fire at Lord's with an eight-wicket win over Oval Invincibles.
A disciplined bowling performance followed by a Georgia Redmayne half-century took the side to their first final since the competition's inception – and ensured that across both men's and women's competitions, all eight teams will featured in The Hundred Final.
Spirit won the toss and elected to bowl. Winfield-Hill hit Danielle Gibson for three boundaries in the second set to take the Invincibles to 21 without loss after 10 balls before Charlie Dean trapped Paige Scholfield (5) lbw.
The introduction of Sarah Glenn saw the back of Winfield-Hill (17), the Invincibles skipper slapping a return catch back to the England leg-spinner to make the score 37 for 2.
At the halfway point of their innings, Invincibles had moved on to 54-2, the Spirit spinners bowling tightly, Dean, Glenn and Deepti Sharma with the combined figures of 2 for 25 from 30 balls.
Gibson, who had previously dropped Alice Capsey twice, eventually removed her for 30 before Kapp fell to Glenn for a run-a-ball 26.
A record crowd for a women's Hundred match at the Kia Oval took in the Eliminator (ECB via Getty Images)
Dean then combined twice with Gibson in the deep to dismiss Villiers (3) and Harris (16) to finish with figures of 3 for 24 – Gibson's full-length heroics to snare Villiers one of the catches of the tournament.
Gray returned for the final five, dismissing MacDonald-Gay first ball and having Smale (1) stumped as the Invincibles closed their innings on 113 for 9.
Chasing 114 to win, opening batter Redmayne made an unbeaten 53 from 47 balls and was well supported by captain Heather Knight who made a classy 36 not out.
The Spirit had reached 33-0 after the powerplay, Meg Lanning going well on 21 from 14, both she and Redmayne surviving tough chances to Mady Villiers and Laura Harris.
Marizanne Kapp returned to the attack to have Lanning caught behind for 22 and Amanda-Jade Wellington had Cordelia Griffith (1) stumped to leave the Spirit on 42 for 2 after 40 to bring Knight to the crease.
From there on, the Spirit cruised to their target, Redmayne and Knight sharing an unbroken stand of 74.
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