Graham Clark's final-ball six secures dramatic Northern Superchargers win

Clark strikes a back-of-the-hand slower ball from Tymal Mills over the ropes for a maximum to secure victory in the most dramatic fashion

ECB Media | 13/08/2025 at 17:42

Southampton: Southern Brave 139-5, Northern Superchargers 141-7 - Northern Superchargers won by three wickets

A last-ball six from Graham Clark saw the Northern Superchargers defeat the Southern Brave on their home turf.

Both sides would have felt like the likely winners on multiple occasions as the game saw-sawed wildly throughout the closing stages.

Put into bat, Southern Brave were soon in all kinds of trouble. Kiwi Jacob Duffy, fresh off the plane from a Test series with Zimbabwe, decimated the power-packed top-order, reducing them to 26 for 3 off 24 balls, Leus du Plooy, James Vince and Jason Roy all back in the pavilion.

James Coles and the evergreen Laurie Evans rebuilt steadily then violently, putting on 87 in 57 balls to put a defendable total in sight despite spin twins Mitch Santner and Adil Rashid keeping things in check, the Brave finishing with a middling 139 for 5.

Jamie Overton replicated the work of Duffy, taking three relatively inexpensive wickets for the Brave, but Zak Crawley sparkled alongside England teammate Harry Brook, both of whom scored quickfire 20s.

When Chris Jordan pulled up with a groin injury, it felt like a game-changing moment, but the Brave rallied, Jofra Archer bowling a brilliant penultimate set, going for just one run and taking two wickets to finish with 2 for 15.

Superchargers needed 10 off the last set, bowled by Tymal Mills. Dots off balls three and fou,r left five needed off the last, at which point Clark hit a back-of-the-hand slower ball over the ropes at deep midwicket to send the away fans into a frenzy.