The Cricketer looks at the main talking points from the Women's Hundred Eliminator clash between Northern Superchargers and London Spirit at the Kia Oval
With an incredible 214 runs on the board, Northern Superchargers were the clear favourites at the halfway mark.
The only fear, perhaps, for the Headingley-based side was Grace Harris in the opposition, and she was promoted from the middle-order to open the innings.
With heavy rain forecast, it was also an effort to get ahead of the DLS par score, which could have snuck Spirit a win after a match was constituted at the 25-ball mark of the second innings.
As it proved, the big-hitting Australian lasted just two balls as Grace Ballinger breached her defences to have her bowled for a duck.
With Harris gone, the contest was all but done.
The left-arm seamer (3 for 22) has had an impressive campaign and, having removed Harris, repeated the dose to get her 10th wicket of the campaign when she had the dangerous Dani Gibson bowled for just three.
Despite a 63-run resistance from Cordelia Griffith and Charli Knott, Spirit never recovered from Ballinger's damage at the top as they fell 42 runs short.
It also went to show how much Spirit missed Tara Norris, their left-arm powerplay weapon after she suffered a season-ending injury.
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Grace Ballinger extinguished any London Spirit hopes (Alex Pantling/Getty Images)
There may never be a more obvious player of the match in The Hundred's history than in this Eliminator between Superchargers and London Spirit at the Kia Oval.
It went unquestionably to Davina Perrin after she made a stunning 101 off 43 balls, with the fastest century in the women's Hundred achieved along the way.
She was as brutal as she was classy, with 20 boundaries in total, and was supported by a corporate box full of her family and friends. They had a 'Perrin 8' shirt draped over the rails in front of them and cheered every run during her record-breaking innings.
The 18-year-old, who was the youngest player to be drafted in The Hundred when she was picked up in the inaugural season, set her team up for a crushing victory and passage to the final against Southern Brave on Sunday (August 31).
Her innings was cruelly ended when a straight drive from batting partner, Annabel Sutherland, flicked off the bowler's hand onto the stumps to catch her short of her ground at the non-strikers' end.
In her first full opportunity for a full run in a Hundred team, Perrin has thrived and has the chance to inspire her team, for whom she played just four times last season, to their first-ever title.
Davina Perrin celebrates her incredible century (ECB Media)
It takes a special effort for a team to save their best performance for a knockout match.
Well, Northern Superchargers did that and more in the Eliminator against London Spirit at the Kia Oval as they smashed 214 in their 100 balls.
It was the highest score in the history of the women's competition and second overall behind Oval Invincibles Men, achieved on the same ground against Welsh Fire earlier in the season.
There were nine sixes in their batting effort, five of which came from Perrin as they crushed their way to Hundred history.
Perrin may have done the bulk of the work, especially during a 105-run opening stand with Alice Davidson-Richards and an entertaining 64-run stand for the second wicket with Pheobe Litchfield, but the final five balls were pivotal to the record-breaking.
Superchargers had 92 on the board before Garce Harris was introduced for the final set, which eventually went for 22 thanks to Nicola Carey's stunning cameo of 31 off 12 balls.
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